Ninth Grade Language Arts
active listening skills
allusion (classical, Biblical, historical, mythological)
antecedent*
character motivation*
citation*
coherence*
comma splice (comma fault)
couplet
descriptive* writing (vivid details)
dialect (uses of dialect)
diction*
dramatic monologue*
elements of plot (rising action, conflict, climax, falling action)*
epic
excerpt*
figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia)*
genre
intervening* word phrases or clauses in writing
irony* (situational, verbal, and dramatic)
narration*
non-verbal feedback*
non-verbal language (gestures, body language)
omniscient*
recurring themes
revise*
Shakespearean English
shift* (tense/point of view)
soliloquy
target audience*
types of conflict (man vs. man, man vs. environment, man vs. himself, man vs. supernatural, external, internal)*
*These terms are words included in the state frameworks that
have been deemed essential knowledge
for end of course tests.