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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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common-core
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A system of scaffolds
Scaffolding
Flashback
Citation
Objective Summary
2. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Conjunctive adverbs
Exposition
Draft
Motivation
3. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Socratic Seminar
Flat
Third person
Transition
4. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Synthesize
Claim
Suspense
Third person
5. Tell how things are alike and different
Transition
Pathos
Compare and Contrast
Falling action
6. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Climax
Counterclaim
Independent
Syntax
7. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Information
Scene
Non -fiction
8. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
In -text citation
Act
Antagonist
Symbolism
9. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Formal
Soliloquy
Third person
Speaker
10. Describe in vivid detail
Mood
Pacing
Delineate
Pacing
11. The study of the sources and development of words
Symbolism
Imagery
Etymology
Internal Conflict
12. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Simile
Parallel plots
Static
Draft
13. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Conflict
Falling action
Act
14. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Figurative language
Pathos
Plagiarism
Subordinate
15. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Evaluate
Clause
Direct Quotation
16. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Onomatopoeia
Flat
Alliteration
17. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Information
Pathos
Exposition
Atmosphere
18. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Indirect
Conflict
Atmosphere
Repetition
19. Examine and judge carefully.
Suspense
Evaluate
Static
Fallacious reasoning
20. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Argument
Oxymoron
Direct
Formal
21. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Motivation
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Antagonist
22. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Antagonist
Non -fiction
Flat
23. A convention in drama whereby a character on stage addresses the audience to reveal some inner thought or feeling that is presumed inaudible to any other character on stage.
Aside
Symbolism
Draft
Hero (tragic)
24. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Symbolism
Static
Sensory language
Alliteration
25. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Claim
Rhyme
Imagery
Syntax
26. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Rhetoric
Objective Summary
Climax
Phrases
27. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Personification
Soliloquy
First person
Citation
28. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Aside
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Citation
Phrases
29. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Counterclaim
Independent
Conflict
30. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Soliloquy
Paraphrase
Resolution
Mood
31. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Third Person Limited
Alliteration
Nuances
32. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Exposition
Falling action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Cohesion
33. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Analyze
Internal Conflict
Narrative
Setting
34. Classifying people by their traits.
Stereotype
Climax
Informative/explanatory text
Textual evidence
35. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve
Alliteration
Antagonist
Theme
Hero (tragic)
36. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Pathos
Argument
Fiction
37. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Fiction
Symbolism
Oxymoron
Figurative language
38. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Protagonist
Internal Conflict
Analyze
Narrative
39. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Rhetoric
Static
Paraphrase
40. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
First person
Soliloquy
Climax
Setting
41. Showing little if any change
Artistic medium
Paraphrase
Static
Fiction
42. Crediting source within the paper.
Stereotype
Speaker
In -text citation
Scaffolding
43. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Conjunctive adverbs
Rhyme
44. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Claim
Citation
Dialogue
Conflict
45. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Simile
Parallel Structure
Argument
Cross - curricular
46. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Phrases
Cross - curricular
Tone
Delineate
47. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Socratic Seminar
First person
Conflict
48. The narrator plays no part in the story but can tell us what all the characters are thinking and feeling as well as what is happening.
Conjunctive adverbs
Tone
Resolution
Third Person Omniscient
49. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve
Hero (tragic)
Cite
Theme
Transition
50. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Claim
Tone
Parallel plots
Rhetoric