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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. 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.






2. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position






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






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






5. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.






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






7. Lacking stimulating characteristics






8. A unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work






9. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






10. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source






11. Crediting source within the paper.






12. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






13. Main character in fiction or drama






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






15. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another






16. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






18. Testimony that is presented word for word.






19. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.






20. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






21. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






22. Classifying people by their traits.






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






24. The study of the sources and development of words






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






26. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






28. 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.






29. A major division of the action of a play or drama.






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.






31. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state






32. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






33. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term






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






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






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






37. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






38. Character pitted against protagonist






39. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses






40. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






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






42. Crediting source within the paper.






43. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.






44. Examine and judge carefully.






45. Give the main point or idea






46. 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.






47. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.






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






49. To examine carefully; study closely






50. Tell how things are alike and different