Text Box: English  - 11th Grade


American Literature & Composition
Nansemond River High School

 

                           Colonialism

                             Puritanism

  Revolutionary Literature

                           Rationalism

                         Romanticism

              Transcendentalism

                             Naturalism

                                   Realism

                             Symbolism

           Harlem Renaissance

                             Modernism

Contemporary Literature

                       Poetry Writing

                  Research Papers

Writing forms

              Descriptive writing

              Expository writing

                  Narrative writing

              Persuasive writing

Writing terminology

                                       Body

                            Conclusion

                                    Details

                          Introduction

                             Main ideas

                              Paragraph

                 Thesis statement

                    Topic sentence

Literary forms

                                     Drama

                                      Essay

                                Narrative

                                     Poetry

Elements of literature

           Author’s style

                  Archetype

                            Characters

                                    Climax

                      Conflict

           Literary effect

                           Mood

                                          Plot

                         Point of view

                 Resolution

                                    Setting

                      Speaker

                                    Theme

                                        Tone

                        Poetic sound

                            Alliteration

                Assonance

             Consonance

                        Diction

  Iambic pentameter            

                           Meter

         Onomatopoeia

                        Rhyme

                      Rhythm

Figurative language

                                  Allusion

                                  Analogy

                                  Imagery

                               Metaphor

                             Oxymoron

                                  Paradox

                    Personification

                                      Simile

                            Symbolism

 

Poetic Structure

                           Blank verse

                                  Couplet

                             End rhyme

                             Free verse

                      Internal rhyme

                                    Refrain

                              Repetition

                    Rhyme scheme

                          Slant rhyme

Poetic forms

                                     Ballad

                          Lyric poetry

                   Narrative poetry

                                    Sonnet

Diction (word choice)

                                     Cliché

                          Connotation

                            Denotation

                        Dialect

                  Hyperbole

                              Pun

            Rhetorical question

       Understatement

              Verbal irony

Structuring techniques

                               Act

                Antagonist

                                      Aside

                                Dialogue

              Dramatic structure

                              Flashback

                              Foil

                    Foreshadowing

                Monologue

                      Narrator

                Paraphrase

               Protagonist

                                      Scene

                   Soliloquy

                      Speaker

      Stage directions

                                    Stanza

                                      Verse

Characterization

                              Caricature

            Character’s actions

         Character’s thoughts

                 Direct exposition

              Dynamic character

                       Flat character

                  Round character

                   Static character

                             Stereotype

Reference terms

                             Base word

           Chronological order

                          Comparison

                         Conclusions

                       Context clues

                                 Contrast

                             Inferences

       Organizational pattern

                             Plagiarism

                                      Prefix

    Problem-solution

     Question/answer

                        Spatial

                                      Suffix

                       Text structure

Reference works

                                 Almanac

                                        Atlas

     Biographical dictionary

                              Dictionary

                        Encyclopedia

 

                             Thesaurus

 

 

LITERARY TERMS

 

 

Flash Cards