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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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1. Make a blueprint of
Character
Etymology
Draft
Aside
2. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions
Motivation
Character
Fiction
Non -fiction
3. 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.
Pacing
Round
Plot
Flashback
4. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.
Soliloquy
Stanza
Textual evidence
Character
5. 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
Hero (tragic)
Socratic Seminar
Scaffolding
Suspense
6. Tell how things are alike and different
Alliteration
Compare and Contrast
Subordinate
Onomatopoeia
7. A story or a telling of a story - or an account of a situation or event.
Nuances
Information
Direct
Narrative
8. Draw up an outline or sketch for something
Soliloquy
Draft
Fiction
Setting
9. The repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
Cohesion
Inference
Parallel Structure
Synthesize
10. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Onomatopoeia
Inference
Exposition
Imagery
11. The quality in a work of literature or art that arouses the reader's feelings of pity - sorrow - or compassion for a character.
Information
Pathos
Textual evidence
Direct Quotation
12. The narrator - who plays no part in story - zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
Analyze
Third Person Limited
Flashback
Artistic medium
13. Words or phrases that create pictures - or images - in the reader's mind.
Oxymoron
Socratic Seminar
Objective Summary
Imagery
14. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Counterclaim
Inference
Atmosphere
Sensory language
15. Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer
Conjunctive adverbs
Third Person Omniscient
Third person
Symbolism
16. Linking with other subjects taught in school.
Internal Conflict
Cross - curricular
Falling action
Mood
17. Involves the inner divisions or turmoil of a single character. Conflicts of this sort may result from the character's attempt to decide between multiple alternatives for action or between opposing attitudes or beliefs.
Internal Conflict
Information
Scaffolding
Soliloquy
18. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
Information
Rising Action
In -text citation
Setting
19. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing
Atmosphere
Oxymoron
Simile
Parallel Structure
20. Tell how things are alike and different
First person
Compare and Contrast
Simile
Speaker
21. The state of cohering or sticking together
Imagery
Objective Summary
Cohesion
Dialogue
22. Play - novel - or other narrative - depicting serious and important events - in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
Conjunctive adverbs
Tragedy
Parallel plots
Symbolism
23. 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
Subordinate
Rising Action
Third person
24. The narrator is a character in the story. Uses first person pronouns (I - me - my).
Summarize
First person
Connotation
Rhyme
25. Person - place - thing - or event that stands both for itself and for something beyond itself.
Symbolism
Transition
Rhyme
Stereotype
26. Method of character development in which the author simple tells what the character is like.
Internal Conflict
Direct Quotation
Indirect
Direct
27. The return of a word - phrase - stanza form or effect in any form of literature
Protagonist
Rising Action
Repetition
Cite
28. Examine and judge carefully.
Euphemism
Evaluate
Third Person Limited
Information
29. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or terms ('living death').
Clause
Oxymoron
Fallacious reasoning
Plot
30. Subtle differences or distinctions in expression - meaning - or response
Euphemism
Nuances
Atmosphere
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
31. Give the main point or idea
Summarize
Tragedy
Simile
Characterization (indirect and direct)
32. To examine carefully; study closely
Citation
Analyze
Theme
Flashback
33. A party who is defending a claim asserts a claim against the opposing party
Exposition
Atmosphere
Sensory language
Counterclaim
34. Quotations - summaries - or paraphrases from text passages to support a position
Oxymoron
Stanza
Textual evidence
Rhetoric
35. Give the main point or idea
Conflict
Summarize
Internal Conflict
Resolution
36. The reasons - either stated or implied - for a character's behavior
Static
Transition
Motivation
Paraphrase
37. First part of the plot which presents main characters and their conflicts.
Counterclaim
Exposition
Euphemism
Rhyme
38. Testimony that is presented word for word.
Informative/explanatory text
First person
Direct Quotation
Plagiarism
39. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration
Claim
Imagery
Nuances
Conclusion / Concluding Statements
40. Character pitted against protagonist
Antagonist
Character
Conjunctive adverbs
Tragedy
41. (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence
Hero (tragic)
Atmosphere
Clause
Connotation
42. Rank or order as less important or consider of less value
Subordinate
Conjunctive adverbs
Compare and Contrast
Delineate
43. 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.
Aside
Syntax
Informative/explanatory text
Non -fiction
44. Crediting source within the paper.
Nuances
Claim
In -text citation
Synthesize
45. Character pitted against protagonist
Narrative
Third person
Character
Antagonist
46. Writing or speech that is used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things - [examples are metaphor - simile - and personification.
Conflict
Static
Independent
Figurative language
47. The time and place in which the events in a short story - novel - play or narrative poem occur.
Figurative language
Cohesion
Protagonist
Setting
48. 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.
Indirect
Figurative language
Flashback
Syntax
49. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly
Formal
Connotation
Conjunctive adverbs
Rhetoric
50. An idea that is implied or suggested
Antagonist
Scaffolding
Sensory language
Connotation