Tenth Grade Language Arts

 

allegory                                                                                                                                             

ambiguity

assonance

censorship                                                                                                                                            

conjunctive adverbs

credible sources                                                                                                                                           

cultural perspective                                                                                                                      

etymology

idiom (figurative language)

incongruity

juxtaposition

literary analysis                                                                                                                                    

logical fallacy                                                                                                                                       

MLA, APA (documentation styles)                                                                                                                                                  

parallelism*                                                                                                                                          

paraphrasing*                                                                                                                                         

persona                                                                                                                                              

précis

primary source/secondary source                                                                                                                                        

rebuttal*                                                                                                                                            

semantics

sentence variety

stream of consciousness

syntax

understatement (litotes)                                                                                                                                      

vernacular 

 

*These terms are words included in the state frameworks that have been deemed essential knowledge
for end of course tests.
 

Academic Vocabulary