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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Third Person Limited
Cite
Parallel plots
Scaffolding
2. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Dialogue
Climax
Exposition
Scene
3. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
First person
Flat
Motivation
Setting
4. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Imagery
Pacing
Simile
5. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Round
Fallacious reasoning
Sensory language
Draft
6. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Artistic medium
Narrative
Clause
7. Crediting source within the paper.
Third person
Compare and Contrast
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
In -text citation
8. Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Indirect
Evaluate
Mood
9. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Direct Quotation
Stanza
Rhetoric
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
10. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Non -fiction
Transition
Climax
Dialogue
11. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Plot
Simile
Third Person Limited
Alliteration
12. 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.
Nuances
Act
Formal
Indirect
13. Main character in fiction or drama
Citation
Protagonist
Dialogue
Claim
14. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Point of View
Non -fiction
Rhetoric
Soliloquy
15. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Exposition
Aside
Socratic Seminar
Character
16. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Synthesize
Cite
Oxymoron
17. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Subordinate
Fallacious reasoning
Phrases
Stereotype
18. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Suspense
Simile
Motivation
Sensory language
19. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Paraphrase
Etymology
Sensory language
20. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Informative/explanatory text
Formal
Citation
Round
21. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
In -text citation
Plagiarism
Direct
Nuances
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
Aside
Cite
Pathos
Hero (tragic)
23. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Protagonist
Pathos
Analyze
24. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Draft
Resolution
Inference
Symbolism
25. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Motivation
Symbolism
Euphemism
Third Person Limited
26. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Draft
Direct Quotation
Paraphrase
Theme
27. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Onomatopoeia
Formal
Round
Paraphrase
28. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Climax
Rising Action
Textual evidence
Mood
29. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Formal
Plot
Imagery
Narrative
30. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Fiction
Tragedy
Pathos
Refrain
31. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Third person
Repetition
Parallel Structure
Analyze
32. 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
Internal Conflict
Syntax
Soliloquy
33. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Flashback
Textual evidence
Suspense
Stanza
34. Character pitted against protagonist
Information
Plagiarism
Antagonist
Motivation
35. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Etymology
Parallel plots
Round
Tone
36. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Static
Tragedy
Pathos
Tragedy
37. An idea that is implied or suggested
Inference
Suspense
Repetition
Connotation
38. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Symbolism
Analyze
Sensory language
Nuances
39. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Third person
Nuances
Suspense
Setting
40. 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
Inference
Soliloquy
Plagiarism
41. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Conjunctive adverbs
Personification
Fallacious reasoning
Figurative language
42. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Argument
Internal Conflict
Speaker
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
43. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Independent
Climax
Indirect
Narrative
44. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Falling action
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Symbolism
Rhetoric
45. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Repetition
Parallel Structure
Flat
Delineate
46. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Direct
Information
Plagiarism
47. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Personification
Objective Summary
Speaker
48. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Plagiarism
Cross - curricular
Plot
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
49. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Oxymoron
Cite
Static
Symbolism
50. 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.
Flashback
Citation
Suspense
Socratic Seminar