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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.






2. Examine and judge carefully.






3. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






4. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






5. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






6. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






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.






8. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.






9. 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.






10. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






11. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.






12. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






13. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')






14. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.






15. Testimony that is presented word for word.






16. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






17. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing






18. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people






19. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






20. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






21. To examine carefully; study closely






22. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






23. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






24. Classifying people by their traits.






25. Character pitted against protagonist






26. An idea that is implied or suggested






27. To examine carefully; study closely






28. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






29. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






30. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






31. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true






32. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






33. Give the main point or idea






34. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. Crediting source within the paper.






38. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






39. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.






40. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






41. Examine and judge carefully.






42. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






43. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






44. 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.






45. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






46. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.






47. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.






48. 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.






49. Showing little if any change






50. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response