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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

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1. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.






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






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






4. Give the main point or idea






5. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






6. The study of the sources and development of words






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






8. Examine and judge carefully.






9. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited






10. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features






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






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






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






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






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






16. In a tragedy - the portion of the plot that follows the climax and that leads to the resolution.






17. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.






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






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






20. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.






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






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






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






24. An idea that is implied or suggested






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






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






27. A struggle between two opposing forces or characters in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem.






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






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






30. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.






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






32. Testimony that is presented word for word.






33. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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






35. Traditionally - a subdivision of an act in drama.






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






37. Assert or affirm strongly






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






39. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures






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






41. Using language effectively to please or persuade






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






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






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






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






46. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration






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






48. An idea that is implied or suggested






49. Lacking stimulating characteristics






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