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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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1. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Evaluate
Complex
Scaffolding
Flat
2. 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.
Objective Summary
Third person
Socratic Seminar
Summarize
3. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Conjunctive adverbs
Mood
Sensory language
Direct
4. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Alliteration
Artistic medium
Symbolism
Speaker
5. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Repetition
Rising Action
Point of View
Information
6. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Pacing
First person
Repetition
Pathos
7. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Rhyme
Cite
Third Person Omniscient
Fiction
8. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Independent
Personification
Dialogue
Plot
9. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Protagonist
Phrases
Refrain
Plagiarism
10. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Simile
Round
Parallel Structure
Rising Action
11. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
Draft
Subordinate
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Point of View
12. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Evaluate
Exposition
Citation
Non -fiction
13. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Point of View
Conjunctive adverbs
Direct
Third person
14. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Informative/explanatory text
Third person
Information
Climax
15. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Exposition
Narrative
Euphemism
Artistic medium
16. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Delineate
Tone
Scaffolding
Textual evidence
17. 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.
Delineate
Aside
Complex
Non -fiction
18. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Internal Conflict
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Third Person Omniscient
Paraphrase
19. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Stereotype
Complex
Figurative language
Soliloquy
20. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Soliloquy
Mood
Climax
Scene
21. A written selection intended to explain a topic - an idea - or a process.
Compare and Contrast
Informative/explanatory text
Dialogue
Conjunctive adverbs
22. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
Claim
Evaluate
Syntax
Falling action
23. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Cite
Personification
Mood
Claim
24. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Information
Point of View
Rhetoric
25. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Textual evidence
Character
Act
Inference
26. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Paraphrase
Formal
Exposition
Clause
27. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Cite
Analyze
Conflict
Refrain
28. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Claim
Counterclaim
Stanza
Imagery
29. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Flat
Sensory language
Complex
Exposition
30. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Point of View
Formal
Tragedy
Connotation
31. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Compare and Contrast
Fiction
Rising Action
Information
32. To examine carefully; study closely
Tragedy
Analyze
Point of View
Phrases
33. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Simile
Flat
Personification
Protagonist
34. Examine and judge carefully.
Complex
Evaluate
Refrain
Suspense
35. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Direct Quotation
Conjunctive adverbs
Third Person Limited
Evaluate
36. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Static
Falling action
Draft
Cross - curricular
37. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Euphemism
Speaker
In -text citation
38. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Socratic Seminar
Direct
Analyze
Argument
39. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Cross - curricular
Exposition
Clause
Antagonist
40. Assert or affirm strongly
Exposition
Claim
Suspense
Symbolism
41. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Rhyme
Etymology
Citation
Motivation
42. The state of cohering or sticking together
Onomatopoeia
Clause
Cohesion
Theme
43. Crediting source within the paper.
Connotation
Rising Action
Summarize
In -text citation
44. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Antagonist
Soliloquy
Dialogue
Imagery
45. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Plagiarism
Conflict
Parallel plots
First person
46. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Personification
Fiction
Symbolism
Rhyme
47. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Draft
Flashback
Conflict
Mood
48. The state of cohering or sticking together
Resolution
Act
Rhetoric
Cohesion
49. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Etymology
Tragedy
Sensory language
Internal Conflict
50. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Pathos
Theme
Point of View
Parallel Structure