Essential Vocabulary List
by Carol Braun
August 15, 2007
Essential Vocabulary
English 9 and 12
Mrs. Cordry
2007-2008
1. Allegory
2. Apologue
3. Autobiography
4. Dystopia (as in Dystopian Novel)
5. Enjambed
6. Epic
7. Euphemism
8. Flashback
9. Humanism
10. Irony
11. Metaphor
12. Novel
13. Novella
14. Parody
15. Persona
16. Pseudonym
17. Ridicule
18. Sarcasm
19. Satire
20. Simile
21. Fiction
22. Biography
23. Sequel
24. Series
25. Setting
26. Plot
27. Character
28. Antagonist
29. Protagonist
30. Subplot
31. Symbolism
32. Foreshadow
33. Tone
34. Utopian (as in Utopian Novel)
35. Alliteration
36. Allusion
37. Illusion
38. To
39. Too
40. Two
41. There
42. Their
43. They‚re
44. Your
45. You‚re
46. Spoonerism
47. Ballad
48. Connotation
49. Denotation
50. Couplet
51. Triplet
52. Denouement
53. Dialogue
54. Monologue
55. Dialect
56. Genre
57. Hyperbole
58. Lyric
59. Motif
60. Myth
61. Narrative
62. Narrator
63. Expository
64. Compare
65. Contrast
66. Parable
67. Personification
68. Theme
69. Malapropism
70. Onomatopoeia
71. Palindrome
72. Oxymoron
73. Colloquialism
74. Idiom
