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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. Showing little if any change






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






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






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






5. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film






6. Main character in fiction or drama






7. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.






8. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






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






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






11. The point of greatest tension or emotional intensity in a plot.






12. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.






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






14. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows






15. Illogical reasoning that results in false or faulty reasoning






16. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






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






18. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






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






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






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






22. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures






23. A piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work






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






25. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence






26. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.






27. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






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






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






30. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






31. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






32. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage






33. To examine carefully; study closely






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. To examine carefully; study closely






36. Showing little if any change






37. 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.






38. Testimony that is presented word for word.






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






40. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






42. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






43. All action taking place after the climax; also known as falling action






44. Main character in fiction or drama






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






46. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






48. Combine so as to form a more complex - product






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






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