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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core
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english
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1. A hero or heroine is the principle character in a movie - novel - or play - especially one who plays a vital role in plot development and solves the conflict. (A tragic hero is usually a dignified - courageous - and high - ranking character whose eve
Hero (tragic)
Alliteration
Parallel plots
Tragedy
2. Character pitted against protagonist
Resolution
Connotation
Exposition
Antagonist
3. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Rhyme
Tone
Oxymoron
Analyze
4. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Onomatopoeia
Climax
Plagiarism
Syntax
5. Main character in fiction or drama
Motivation
Protagonist
Clause
Symbolism
6. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Symbolism
Setting
Speaker
Scene
7. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Draft
Figurative language
Resolution
8. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Imagery
Information
Parallel plots
Exposition
9. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Informative/explanatory text
Textual evidence
Atmosphere
Narrative
10. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Scene
Soliloquy
Indirect
Suspense
11. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Citation
Nuances
Plot
Direct Quotation
12. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Transition
Character
Refrain
Information
13. The study of the sources and development of words
Parallel Structure
Etymology
Parallel Structure
Internal Conflict
14. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Draft
Climax
Protagonist
Non -fiction
15. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Textual evidence
Formal
Third person
Scaffolding
16. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Phrases
Climax
Motivation
Scaffolding
17. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Scaffolding
Plagiarism
Clause
Flat
18. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Objective Summary
Stanza
Falling action
Paraphrase
19. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Symbolism
Act
Clause
Repetition
20. 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
Summarize
Narrative
Static
21. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Conjunctive adverbs
Onomatopoeia
Direct
Conflict
22. 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
Cross - curricular
Textual evidence
Repetition
23. The state of cohering or sticking together
Flat
Evaluate
Cohesion
Claim
24. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
Theme
Counterclaim
Atmosphere
Character
25. 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.
Plot
Figurative language
Exposition
Socratic Seminar
26. Crediting source within the paper.
Conflict
Atmosphere
Oxymoron
In -text citation
27. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Narrative
Plagiarism
Summarize
First person
28. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Rhetoric
Alliteration
Dialogue
Cite
29. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Delineate
Cohesion
Citation
Figurative language
30. 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.
Character
Plot
Flashback
Exposition
31. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Socratic Seminar
Tragedy
Fallacious reasoning
Draft
32. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Nuances
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Repetition
Direct Quotation
33. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Transition
Parallel Structure
Indirect
Pacing
34. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Personification
Antagonist
Tone
Repetition
35. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Informative/explanatory text
Claim
Cite
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
36. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Cohesion
Stanza
Internal Conflict
Flat
37. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Tragedy
Falling action
Static
Characterization (indirect and direct)
38. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Connotation
Draft
Etymology
Phrases
39. The state of cohering or sticking together
Indirect
Exposition
Atmosphere
Cohesion
40. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Atmosphere
Fallacious reasoning
Personification
Textual evidence
41. Showing little if any change
Rhetoric
Delineate
Citation
Static
42. Examine and judge carefully.
Cross - curricular
Evaluate
Sensory language
Stereotype
43. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Falling action
Repetition
Syntax
Setting
44. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Exposition
Tragedy
Argument
Third person
45. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Imagery
Round
Flashback
Resolution
46. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
First person
Mood
Climax
Conjunctive adverbs
47. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Paraphrase
Informative/explanatory text
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
48. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Counterclaim
Conflict
Nuances
Flashback
49. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words
Synthesize
Soliloquy
Alliteration
Textual evidence
50. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Draft
Cite
Parallel plots
Climax
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