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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Climax
Euphemism
Oxymoron
Antagonist
2. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Mood
Pathos
Rising Action
Soliloquy
3. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Refrain
Artistic medium
Rhyme
Fallacious reasoning
4. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Paraphrase
Conflict
Third Person Limited
Informative/explanatory text
5. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Cross - curricular
Clause
Cross - curricular
6. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Round
Falling action
Formal
7. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Paraphrase
Suspense
Internal Conflict
Textual evidence
8. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Simile
Flat
Rising Action
Plot
9. Tell how things are alike and different
Compare and Contrast
Conjunctive adverbs
Fallacious reasoning
Third person
10. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Aside
Indirect
Transition
Fiction
11. The state of cohering or sticking together
Narrative
Cohesion
Synthesize
Rising Action
12. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Transition
Parallel Structure
Plagiarism
13. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Hero (tragic)
Symbolism
Third Person Omniscient
Conflict
14. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Fallacious reasoning
Hero (tragic)
Tone
Non -fiction
15. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Antagonist
Personification
Direct Quotation
16. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Round
Theme
Act
Conjunctive adverbs
17. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Rhetoric
Stereotype
Protagonist
18. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Inference
Counterclaim
Climax
19. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Direct
Antagonist
Syntax
Onomatopoeia
20. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Conjunctive adverbs
Indirect
Refrain
Third Person Limited
21. To examine carefully; study closely
Connotation
Internal Conflict
Dialogue
Analyze
22. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Draft
Aside
Imagery
Independent
23. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Citation
Flashback
Personification
24. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Socratic Seminar
Transition
Connotation
25. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Flat
Artistic medium
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Subordinate
26. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Figurative language
Dialogue
Draft
27. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Refrain
Symbolism
Flashback
Argument
28. Character pitted against protagonist
Static
Direct
Antagonist
Motivation
29. Showing little if any change
Subordinate
Symbolism
Refrain
Static
30. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Fiction
Setting
First person
Dialogue
31. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Aside
First person
Clause
Flashback
32. Main character in fiction or drama
Transition
Conflict
Draft
Protagonist
33. Describe in vivid detail
First person
Refrain
Narrative
Delineate
34. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Cross - curricular
Imagery
Third person
Analyze
35. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Imagery
Conflict
Draft
Formal
36. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Direct
Simile
Phrases
Analyze
37. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Euphemism
Exposition
Stanza
38. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Pacing
Protagonist
Etymology
39. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Sensory language
Narrative
Falling action
Information
40. 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 Structure
Third Person Omniscient
Internal Conflict
Rhetoric
41. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Point of View
Scene
Conflict
Speaker
42. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Summarize
Independent
Subordinate
Refrain
43. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Clause
Formal
Informative/explanatory text
Tone
44. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Claim
Nuances
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Scene
45. Examine and judge carefully.
Third Person Omniscient
Hero (tragic)
Evaluate
Mood
46. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Setting
Speaker
Atmosphere
Cross - curricular
47. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Clause
Conjunctive adverbs
Connotation
Evaluate
48. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Narrative
Suspense
Direct
Theme
49. Examine and judge carefully.
Parallel Structure
Third person
Plagiarism
Evaluate
50. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Transition
Argument
Rhetoric
First person