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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
First person
Character
Act
Figurative language
2. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Suspense
Objective Summary
Flat
Atmosphere
3. Tell how things are alike and different
Stereotype
Hero (tragic)
Scene
Compare and Contrast
4. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Objective Summary
Refrain
Stereotype
Atmosphere
5. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Flat
Falling action
Independent
Conflict
6. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Fallacious reasoning
Rising Action
Syntax
Theme
7. 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
Round
Simile
Rhyme
8. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Direct Quotation
Formal
Repetition
Analyze
9. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Refrain
Dialogue
Conflict
Parallel Structure
10. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Paraphrase
Euphemism
Setting
Symbolism
11. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.
Transition
Parallel plots
Objective Summary
Claim
12. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Artistic medium
Plagiarism
Subordinate
Citation
13. Showing little if any change
In -text citation
Citation
Fallacious reasoning
Static
14. An idea that is implied or suggested
Alliteration
Paraphrase
Connotation
Parallel Structure
15. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Analyze
Mood
Third person
Antagonist
16. Describe in vivid detail
Falling action
Direct Quotation
Delineate
Conflict
17. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Third Person Omniscient
Summarize
Flashback
18. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Phrases
Onomatopoeia
Argument
Alliteration
19. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Climax
Transition
Oxymoron
Onomatopoeia
20. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Speaker
Third Person Omniscient
Flat
Character
21. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Personification
Refrain
Stereotype
Alliteration
22. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Suspense
Scene
Act
23. 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
Etymology
Nuances
Characterization (indirect and direct)
24. Character pitted against protagonist
Phrases
Rhyme
Antagonist
Act
25. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Static
Parallel plots
Onomatopoeia
Motivation
26. 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.
Mood
Character
Socratic Seminar
Transition
27. The study of the sources and development of words
Suspense
Etymology
Figurative language
Act
28. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Internal Conflict
Sensory language
Repetition
Scene
29. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Compare and Contrast
Draft
Direct
Summarize
30. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Exposition
Textual evidence
Aside
First person
31. Make a blueprint of
Socratic Seminar
Falling action
Alliteration
Draft
32. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Oxymoron
Repetition
Theme
Fiction
33. Crediting source within the paper.
Aside
Information
In -text citation
Socratic Seminar
34. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Figurative language
Round
Transition
Symbolism
35. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Tragedy
Paraphrase
Informative/explanatory text
Summarize
36. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Pathos
Exposition
Tragedy
Direct Quotation
37. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Rhetoric
Euphemism
Analyze
38. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Sensory language
Exposition
Hero (tragic)
Soliloquy
39. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Suspense
Narrative
Complex
Soliloquy
40. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Antagonist
Symbolism
Claim
41. The study of the sources and development of words
Fiction
Etymology
Rhetoric
Textual evidence
42. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Pacing
Flat
Clause
Exposition
43. An idea that is implied or suggested
Third Person Limited
Connotation
Onomatopoeia
Resolution
44. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Etymology
Theme
Speaker
Resolution
45. Showing little if any change
Information
Speaker
Static
Motivation
46. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Pacing
Fiction
Narrative
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
47. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Scene
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Falling action
Conjunctive adverbs
48. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Counterclaim
Soliloquy
Subordinate
Suspense
49. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Refrain
Conjunctive adverbs
Scene
Plagiarism
50. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Static
Conjunctive adverbs
Cite