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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Formal
Evaluate
Stereotype
2. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.
Climax
Parallel plots
Hero (tragic)
Claim
3. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
In -text citation
Fallacious reasoning
Direct
Plagiarism
4. Give the main point or idea
Artistic medium
Tragedy
Summarize
Rhyme
5. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience
Third Person Omniscient
Static
Inference
Alliteration
6. The study of the sources and development of words
Etymology
Internal Conflict
Fallacious reasoning
Parallel Structure
7. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Claim
Symbolism
Pathos
Oxymoron
8. Examine and judge carefully.
Parallel Structure
Oxymoron
Evaluate
Refrain
9. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Falling action
Antagonist
Atmosphere
Citation
10. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Textual evidence
Textual evidence
Socratic Seminar
Characterization (indirect and direct)
11. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Compare and Contrast
Independent
Fiction
Oxymoron
12. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Aside
Narrative
Onomatopoeia
Tragedy
13. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Speaker
Hero (tragic)
Setting
Scaffolding
14. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
Direct
Motivation
Symbolism
Tone
15. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Pacing
Dialogue
Parallel Structure
Counterclaim
16. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.
Falling action
Complex
In -text citation
Inference
17. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Synthesize
Atmosphere
Refrain
Exposition
18. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Figurative language
Euphemism
Paraphrase
Parallel Structure
19. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Phrases
Refrain
Atmosphere
Subordinate
20. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
First person
Exposition
Speaker
Exposition
21. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Soliloquy
Plot
Conjunctive adverbs
Resolution
22. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Objective Summary
Third person
Sensory language
Artistic medium
23. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Personification
Simile
Round
Fiction
24. An idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
Rising Action
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Oxymoron
25. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Resolution
Analyze
Tragedy
First person
26. A literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
Pathos
Indirect
In -text citation
Dialogue
27. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.
Analyze
Theme
Internal Conflict
Conflict
28. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Pathos
Oxymoron
Mood
Motivation
29. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Mood
Information
Round
Third Person Omniscient
30. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Figurative language
Draft
Socratic Seminar
Phrases
31. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Theme
Third Person Limited
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Informative/explanatory text
32. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Simile
Direct Quotation
Symbolism
Complex
33. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Flat
Summarize
Tragedy
Rhetoric
34. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Parallel plots
Direct
Rhyme
Theme
35. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Scene
Atmosphere
Point of View
Antagonist
36. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Plot
Parallel Structure
Tone
Citation
37. Assert or affirm strongly
Formal
Suspense
Claim
Resolution
38. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Draft
Refrain
Pacing
Round
39. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Parallel Structure
Analyze
Etymology
Complex
40. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Scene
Narrative
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
41. Using language effectively to please or persuade
Mood
Direct
Cite
Rhetoric
42. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Cohesion
Clause
Refrain
Narrative
43. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Textual evidence
Transition
Plagiarism
Stanza
44. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Counterclaim
Aside
Fiction
Oxymoron
45. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Act
Character
Parallel plots
Dialogue
46. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Fiction
Act
Resolution
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
47. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.
Pathos
Suspense
Summarize
Dialogue
48. An idea that is implied or suggested
Cohesion
Connotation
Speaker
Theme
49. Lacking stimulating characteristics
Narrative
Figurative language
Information
Flat
50. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Cite
Plot
Summarize
Flashback