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Grade 9 - 10 Vocabulary Common Core

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Linking with other subjects taught in school.






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






3. Make a blueprint of






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






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






6. Tell how things are alike and different






7. The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences






8. Crediting source within the paper.






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






10. Character pitted against protagonist






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






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






13. To examine carefully; study closely






14. Main character in fiction or drama






15. Crediting source within the paper.






16. The serious and relatively sustained use of symbols to represent or suggest other ideas or things.






17. Assert or affirm strongly






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






19. Groups of words that act as a unit and convey a meaning






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






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






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






23. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions






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






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






26. Draw up an outline or sketch for something






27. The state of cohering or sticking together






28. To examine carefully; study closely






29. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






30. Group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem.






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






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






33. Knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction






34. 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.






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






36. Therefore - however - furthermore - nevertheless - accordingly






37. Examine and judge carefully.






38. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






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






40. Rewording for the purpose of clarification






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






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






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






44. Describe in vivid detail






45. Logical interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience






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






47. Give the main point or idea






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






49. Shortened version of the text containing the main points or events.






50. Showing little if any change