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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The uncertainty of anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story.






2. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.






3. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior






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






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






6. Make a blueprint of






7. Main character in fiction or drama






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






9. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






10. Classifying people by their traits.






11. To examine carefully; study closely






12. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






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






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






15. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer






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






17. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.






18. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words






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






20. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value






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






22. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






23. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.






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






25. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else






26. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






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






28. 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.






29. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response






30. 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.






31. Showing little if any change






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






33. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').






34. 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.






35. Testimony that is presented word for word.






36. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






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






38. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling






39. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






40. Vantage point from which a writer tells a story.






41. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party






42. Using language effectively to please or persuade






43. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.






44. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






46. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






47. 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.






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






49. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






50. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling