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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






2. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






3. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






4. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






5. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






6. Testimony that is presented word for word.






7. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






8. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






9. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






10. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






11. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






12. Assert or affirm strongly






13. 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.






14. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






15. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






16. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






17. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






18. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






19. Main character in fiction or drama






20. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






21. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).






22. 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






23. Character pitted against protagonist






24. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






25. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






26. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






27. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.






28. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






29. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






30. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






31. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






32. Make a blueprint of






33. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






34. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






35. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






36. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






37. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






38. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






39. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






40. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






41. Character pitted against protagonist






42. Make a blueprint of






43. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






44. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






45. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






46. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






47. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






48. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






49. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






50. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.