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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
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Plagiarism
Transition
Imagery
Flat
2. 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.
Repetition
Speaker
In -text citation
Indirect
3. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Argument
Delineate
Symbolism
Third person
4. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Rhetoric
Delineate
Narrative
Aside
5. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Stanza
Non -fiction
Evaluate
Direct Quotation
6. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Euphemism
Phrases
Scene
Exposition
7. Simultaneous plot lines - usually with an intersection and one or more points.
Parallel plots
Oxymoron
Oxymoron
Etymology
8. In drama - an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage
Soliloquy
Scene
Informative/explanatory text
Objective Summary
9. The action leading to the climax and the simultaneous increase of tension in the plot.
Rising Action
Stanza
Parallel Structure
Soliloquy
10. A comparison made between two things through the use of a specific word or comparison - such as like - as - than or resemble.
Simile
Conflict
Pacing
Argument
11. The act of describing distinctive characteristics or essential features
Aside
Simile
Stereotype
Characterization (indirect and direct)
12. The voice that is talking to us in a poem.
Aside
Subordinate
Speaker
Conflict
13. 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.
In -text citation
Flashback
Pacing
Subordinate
14. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Etymology
Direct Quotation
Plot
Figurative language
15. A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
Motivation
Rising Action
Complex
Pathos
16. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Narrative
Pathos
Informative/explanatory text
Dialogue
17. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Climax
Falling action
Conjunctive adverbs
Formal
18. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Parallel Structure
Antagonist
Motivation
Pacing
19. The state of cohering or sticking together
Cohesion
Delineate
Characterization (indirect and direct)
Objective Summary
20. A passage or expression that is quoted or cited
Paraphrase
Plagiarism
Complex
Citation
21. To examine carefully; study closely
Exposition
Analyze
Cohesion
Complex
22. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Falling action
Information
Clause
Onomatopoeia
23. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Draft
Repetition
Clause
Parallel Structure
24. Character pitted against protagonist
Third Person Limited
Alliteration
Imagery
Antagonist
25. A word - phrase - line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem usually at the end of each stanza.
Onomatopoeia
Nuances
Refrain
Draft
26. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Antagonist
Speaker
Soliloquy
Motivation
27. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Direct
Direct Quotation
Conjunctive adverbs
Euphemism
28. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Third person
Indirect
Motivation
Direct
29. Assert or affirm strongly
Hero (tragic)
Rhyme
Claim
Aside
30. A mild - indirect - or vague term substituting for a harsh - blunt - or offensive term
Clause
Artistic medium
Figurative language
Euphemism
31. The sequence of events or actions in a short story - novel - play - or narrative poem.
Dialogue
Plot
Formal
Rhetoric
32. Crediting source within the paper.
Oxymoron
Direct Quotation
Plot
In -text citation
33. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Cohesion
Figurative language
Conflict
Oxymoron
34. Make a blueprint of
Connotation
Indirect
Draft
Direct Quotation
35. Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the senses
Sensory language
Summarize
Symbolism
Conflict
36. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Protagonist
Round
Oxymoron
Flat
37. Following rules or customs - often in an exact and proper way.
Formal
Sensory language
Theme
Third Person Omniscient
38. Paintings - sculpture - photography - music - theater - dance - film
Subordinate
Static
Artistic medium
Transition
39. A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human qualities.
Climax
Imagery
Personification
Fallacious reasoning
40. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Parallel Structure
Third Person Limited
Mood
Tragedy
41. An open-ended group discussion that teachers use to help students think on a higher level about a certain issue or topic. Involves an inner/outer circle format.
Conflict
Speaker
Socratic Seminar
Point of View
42. Combine so as to form a more complex - product
Act
Synthesize
Counterclaim
Act
43. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Draft
Personification
Parallel Structure
Synthesize
44. Showing little if any change
Claim
Character
Fiction
Static
45. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.
Symbolism
Claim
Analyze
Antagonist
46. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Personification
Flashback
Transition
Argument
47. Crediting source within the paper.
Cite
Synthesize
In -text citation
Direct
48. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Protagonist
Citation
Setting
Textual evidence
49. Rewording for the purpose of clarification
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
Paraphrase
In -text citation
Parallel plots
50. A passage that connects a topic to one that follows
Third person
Cite
Transition
Repetition