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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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1. 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.
Soliloquy
Third Person Omniscient
Evaluate
Direct Quotation
2. 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
Third Person Omniscient
Cohesion
Protagonist
3. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Subordinate
Fiction
Formal
Round
4. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Synthesize
Non -fiction
Claim
5. Make a blueprint of
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Motivation
Draft
Textual evidence
6. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Stanza
Stanza
Plagiarism
Personification
7. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Complex
Conjunctive adverbs
Act
Onomatopoeia
8. To examine carefully; study closely
Static
Pacing
Suspense
Analyze
9. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Objective Summary
Etymology
Alliteration
Scaffolding
10. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Onomatopoeia
Delineate
Argument
Exposition
11. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Fiction
Informative/explanatory text
Synthesize
Oxymoron
12. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Act
Exposition
Personification
Claim
13. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Cohesion
Point of View
Counterclaim
Conjunctive adverbs
14. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Static
Alliteration
Argument
Personification
15. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Symbolism
Euphemism
Refrain
16. Scene in a movie - play - short story - novel - or narrative poem that interrupts the present action of the plot to show events that happened at an earlier time.
Flashback
Plot
Mood
Scaffolding
17. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Textual evidence
Symbolism
Suspense
Characterization (indirect and direct)
18. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
In -text citation
Synthesize
Setting
19. 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
Stanza
Resolution
Phrases
Hero (tragic)
20. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Parallel plots
Pathos
Conjunctive adverbs
Sensory language
21. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Formal
Syntax
Refrain
Dialogue
22. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Motivation
Citation
Repetition
Theme
23. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Paraphrase
Connotation
Direct Quotation
Inference
24. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Narrative
Paraphrase
Antagonist
25. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Inference
Narrative
Inference
Rhetoric
26. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Alliteration
Climax
Counterclaim
Rising Action
27. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Onomatopoeia
Counterclaim
Fallacious reasoning
Soliloquy
28. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Rhetoric
Refrain
Objective Summary
Mood
29. Describe in vivid detail
Flashback
Cohesion
Delineate
Simile
30. Character pitted against protagonist
In -text citation
Citation
Antagonist
Cohesion
31. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Inference
Transition
Clause
Etymology
32. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Indirect
Onomatopoeia
Stanza
Fiction
33. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Protagonist
Flashback
Scaffolding
34. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Internal Conflict
Sensory language
Alliteration
Flashback
35. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Non -fiction
Symbolism
Pacing
Plagiarism
36. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Delineate
Direct
Analyze
Pathos
37. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Euphemism
Aside
Exposition
Artistic medium
38. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Independent
Rhyme
Characterization (indirect and direct)
39. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Textual evidence
Oxymoron
Static
Independent
40. Assert or affirm strongly
Round
Inference
Claim
Symbolism
41. Crediting source within the paper.
Citation
Draft
In -text citation
Direct
42. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Information
Imagery
Climax
Citation
43. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Conjunctive adverbs
Imagery
Third Person Limited
Rhyme
44. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Narrative
Theme
Plot
Third person
45. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Direct
Hero (tragic)
Symbolism
Draft
46. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Dialogue
Conflict
Motivation
47. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Information
Figurative language
Imagery
Non -fiction
48. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Flat
Counterclaim
Sensory language
Atmosphere
49. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Evaluate
Flat
Subordinate
Counterclaim
50. Crediting source within the paper.
Clause
Alliteration
In -text citation
Draft