Ninth Grade Language Arts

Audience

Protagonist

Antagonist

Citation

Coherence

Diction

Drama

Elements of plot

Elements of poetry

Point of view

Etymology

Figurative language

Foreign words and phrases

Logical fallacies (e.g.,

appeal to fear [ad

baculum], personal

attach [ad hominen],

false dilemma, and

false analogy)

Discourse

Paraphrase

Persuasive devices

Questioning

Research

Revision

Rubric

Source (e.g., primary,

secondary, tertiary)

Style

Themes, recurring

Thesis (e.g., implied

thesis)

 

Academic Vocabulary