Vocabulary

EOC

gist

main idea

infer

symbolize

figurative language

summary

graphic

conclude

purpose

audience

selection

evoke

allude

purpose

compare

contrast

describe

explain

Poetry

sound devices

alliteration

assonance

consonance

onomatopoeia

rhyme

rhythm

rhyme scheme

anaphora

stanza

couplet

quatrain

figurative language

metaphor

simile

imagery

personification

connotation

hyperbole

symbolism

denotation

analogy

free verse

sonnet

haiku

pun

lyric

narrative

Persuasive Writing

ethos

pathos

logos

position

rhetoric

opinion

parallelism

evoke

statement

purpose

argue

citation

“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.” ―Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science

“Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.” ―Alexander Theroux, Darconville's Cat

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called." ―Jarod Kintz, This is the Best Book I've Ever Written, and It Still Sucks

“To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don’t know, or worse, merely guess at what they mean without bothering to look them up.

For me, reading has always been not only a quest for pleasure and enlightenment but also a word-hunting expedition, a lexical safari.” ―Charles Harrington Elster

“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.” ―John Broadbent, John Milton: Introductions

Literary

theme

climax

setting

suspense

motivation

conflict

irony

(verbal, situational,dramatic)

atmosphere

tone

point of view

characterize

characterization

(direct and indirect)

character types

protagonist

antagonist

foil

dynamic

static

flat

round

plot

annotate

mood

inference

motif

Drama

Vocabulary

tragedy

comedy

dramatic irony

monologue

soliloquy

aside

cue

dialogue

gestures

action

stage directions

props

scenery

acts

scenes

script

playwright

confidant

foil characters

scenery

prologue

Writing

thesis

topic sentence

supporting details

organization

revise

edit

evidence

transition

paragraph

introduction

conclusion/closing

purpose

tone

mood

diction

narrate