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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. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Symbolism
Textual evidence
Cohesion
Round
2. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Scene
Flat
Conflict
Inference
3. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Motivation
Complex
Textual evidence
Compare and Contrast
4. Showing little if any change
Non -fiction
Static
Hero (tragic)
Atmosphere
5. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Aside
Speaker
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Cite
6. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Resolution
Non -fiction
Tone
Subordinate
7. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Draft
Direct
Direct Quotation
Cohesion
8. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Clause
Cross - curricular
Onomatopoeia
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
9. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Pathos
Resolution
Tone
Information
10. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Fallacious reasoning
Non -fiction
Refrain
Stanza
11. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Draft
Parallel Structure
Internal Conflict
Paraphrase
12. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Sensory language
Analyze
First person
13. 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.
Fallacious reasoning
Formal
Indirect
Plagiarism
14. Examine and judge carefully.
Evaluate
Textual evidence
Setting
Scaffolding
15. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Scaffolding
Counterclaim
Sensory language
Alliteration
16. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning
Character
Fallacious reasoning
Aside
Phrases
17. 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.
Argument
Socratic Seminar
Third Person Limited
Etymology
18. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Cite
Objective Summary
Draft
Narrative
19. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Refrain
Pathos
Information
Narrative
20. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Symbolism
Evaluate
Conflict
Nuances
21. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Tragedy
Mood
Act
22. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Independent
Symbolism
Plot
Imagery
23. Describe in vivid detail
Delineate
Symbolism
Soliloquy
Hero (tragic)
24. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Symbolism
Rising Action
Subordinate
Parallel plots
25. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
Motivation
Artistic medium
Inference
26. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Formal
Parallel Structure
Static
Transition
27. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Conflict
Climax
Counterclaim
Refrain
28. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Rhyme
First person
Point of View
Fiction
29. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Subordinate
Round
Subordinate
30. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Stereotype
Theme
Sensory language
31. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Act
Independent
Summarize
Motivation
32. An idea that is implied or suggested
Figurative language
Syntax
Connotation
Stereotype
33. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Oxymoron
Direct Quotation
Parallel Structure
Fiction
34. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Draft
Informative/explanatory text
Complex
Dialogue
35. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Oxymoron
Repetition
Flat
Antagonist
36. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Third Person Omniscient
Draft
Conflict
37. 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.
Indirect
Cite
Nuances
Socratic Seminar
38. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Mood
Compare and Contrast
39. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Internal Conflict
Argument
Pacing
Third Person Limited
40. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Syntax
Complex
Tone
Round
41. Make a blueprint of
Draft
First person
Theme
Repetition
42. 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.
Theme
Summarize
Flashback
Scene
43. Assert or affirm strongly
Non -fiction
Soliloquy
Resolution
Claim
44. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Mood
Plot
Third Person Limited
Antagonist
45. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Atmosphere
Draft
Evaluate
46. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Aside
Personification
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Pathos
47. To examine carefully; study closely
Analyze
Citation
Third person
Synthesize
48. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Informative/explanatory text
Personification
Citation
49. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Pacing
Symbolism
Non -fiction
Syntax
50. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Repetition
Exposition
Clause
Non -fiction