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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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1. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Symbolism
Alliteration
Stanza
Climax
2. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Direct Quotation
Dialogue
Motivation
Indirect
3. The state of cohering or sticking together
Claim
Tone
Etymology
Cohesion
4. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Speaker
Stanza
Inference
Parallel plots
5. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Narrative
Claim
Speaker
Artistic medium
6. 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.
Socratic Seminar
Draft
Conflict
Phrases
7. Method of character development in which the author reveals the personality of character through their speech - thoughts - actions - appearance - or effects of others toward the character.
Indirect
Pacing
Conjunctive adverbs
Soliloquy
8. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Aside
Character
Rhyme
Refrain
9. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Scene
Textual evidence
Mood
10. Showing little if any change
Third Person Omniscient
Indirect
Static
Act
11. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Tone
Repetition
Rising Action
Mood
12. Main character in fiction or drama
Pathos
Third person
Speaker
Protagonist
13. Make a blueprint of
Conjunctive adverbs
Static
Sensory language
Draft
14. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Motivation
Objective Summary
Symbolism
15. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Antagonist
Character
Delineate
Fallacious reasoning
16. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Direct
Synthesize
Pathos
Suspense
17. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Personification
Motivation
Round
18. Examine and judge carefully.
Connotation
Evaluate
Suspense
Analyze
19. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Plot
Direct
Flashback
Tone
20. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Imagery
Static
Fallacious reasoning
Syntax
21. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Figurative language
Objective Summary
Static
Symbolism
22. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Argument
Resolution
Tone
Stanza
23. Character pitted against protagonist
Figurative language
Indirect
Antagonist
First person
24. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Tragedy
Round
Setting
Suspense
25. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Rhetoric
Parallel Structure
Tragedy
Independent
26. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Mood
Paraphrase
Syntax
Falling action
27. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Pacing
Indirect
Dialogue
Cohesion
28. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Etymology
Counterclaim
Non -fiction
Symbolism
29. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Argument
Sensory language
Nuances
Transition
30. 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.
Parallel plots
Climax
Third Person Omniscient
Non -fiction
31. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Antagonist
Compare and Contrast
Information
Narrative
32. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Hero (tragic)
Evaluate
Information
33. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Exposition
Conjunctive adverbs
Speaker
Informative/explanatory text
34. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Fallacious reasoning
Citation
Inference
Phrases
35. The study of the sources and development of words
Antagonist
Connotation
Etymology
Theme
36. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Pacing
Atmosphere
Plagiarism
Argument
37. Assert or affirm strongly
Etymology
Speaker
Claim
Tragedy
38. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Stereotype
Independent
Exposition
Third Person Limited
39. Tell how things are alike and different
Fallacious reasoning
Conjunctive adverbs
Direct
Compare and Contrast
40. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Flashback
Exposition
Act
Complex
41. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Clause
Phrases
Flat
42. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Flat
Synthesize
Refrain
Character
43. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Inference
Indirect
Rhyme
44. Make a blueprint of
Connotation
Citation
Tragedy
Draft
45. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Climax
Phrases
46. 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.
Exposition
Aside
In -text citation
Oxymoron
47. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Character
Compare and Contrast
Argument
Evaluate
48. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Draft
Citation
Rhetoric
49. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
First person
Motivation
Symbolism
Atmosphere
50. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Nuances
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Resolution
Socratic Seminar
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