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