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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. Classifying people by their traits.
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Stereotype
Transition
Parallel plots
2. Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source
Cite
Soliloquy
Objective Summary
Round
3. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Direct Quotation
Objective Summary
Informative/explanatory text
4. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.
Static
Scene
Plot
Alliteration
5. 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.
Flashback
Act
Delineate
Figurative language
6. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Internal Conflict
Pacing
Repetition
Parallel plots
7. Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning (Ex: 'buzz')
Atmosphere
Rising Action
Onomatopoeia
First person
8. A major division of the action of a play or drama.
Act
Soliloquy
Rising Action
First person
9. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Third Person Omniscient
Scene
Narrative
Plagiarism
10. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Evaluate
Resolution
Imagery
11. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Motivation
Narrative
Repetition
Characterization (indirect and direct)
12. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action
Scene
Resolution
Non -fiction
Imagery
13. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work
Sensory language
Plagiarism
Setting
Personification
14. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Rising Action
Euphemism
First person
Hero (tragic)
15. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Refrain
Fiction
16. Assert or affirm strongly
Refrain
Claim
Delineate
Third Person Limited
17. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Hero (tragic)
Plot
Euphemism
Hero (tragic)
18. 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
Conjunctive adverbs
Indirect
Suspense
19. 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
Symbolism
Euphemism
Hero (tragic)
Figurative language
20. Main character in fiction or drama
Parallel plots
Protagonist
Sensory language
Summarize
21. The movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Objective Summary
Atmosphere
Pacing
Phrases
22. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Indirect
Fallacious reasoning
Round
Plagiarism
23. A system of scaffolds
Artistic medium
Compare and Contrast
Scaffolding
Formal
24. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Internal Conflict
Paraphrase
Information
Summarize
25. Tell how things are alike and different
Tragedy
Compare and Contrast
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Climax
26. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Clause
Syntax
Protagonist
Phrases
27. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Clause
Subordinate
Nuances
28. 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.
Third Person Omniscient
Fiction
Atmosphere
Fiction
29. Make a blueprint of
Conflict
Draft
Socratic Seminar
Climax
30. Bring to a highly developed - finished - or refined state
Antagonist
Round
Syntax
Direct Quotation
31. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Setting
Draft
Inference
Suspense
32. 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.
Parallel Structure
Subordinate
Flashback
Point of View
33. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Nuances
First person
Simile
Plagiarism
34. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Rhyme
Sensory language
Exposition
Climax
35. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Complex
Draft
Synthesize
Mood
36. Repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem.
Static
In -text citation
Euphemism
Rhyme
37. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning
Internal Conflict
Connotation
Phrases
Clause
38. In the broadest sense of the word - any writing that relates imagined characters and occurrences rather than recounting real ones.
Symbolism
Analyze
Cite
Fiction
39. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Onomatopoeia
Climax
Complex
Objective Summary
40. To examine carefully; study closely
Pacing
Suspense
Analyze
Pacing
41. Crediting source within the paper.
Cohesion
In -text citation
Antagonist
Nuances
42. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Scaffolding
Objective Summary
Rhetoric
43. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Sensory language
Speaker
Formal
Motivation
44. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Cohesion
Scene
Third person
Speaker
45. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
First person
Flashback
Evaluate
Suspense
46. A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
Mood
Act
Euphemism
Pathos
47. Classifying people by their traits.
Fallacious reasoning
Compare and Contrast
Objective Summary
Stereotype
48. Prose writing that deals with real people - things - events - and places.
Pacing
Non -fiction
Third person
In -text citation
49. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Nuances
Static
Personification
Informative/explanatory text
50. Not dependent on or conditioned by or relative to anything else
Rising Action
Clause
Independent
Hero (tragic)