English 10 Vocabulary
Literary Devices: Vocabulary
1. allegory
2. Alliteration
3. allusion
4. Antagonist
5. Audience
6. autobiography
7. antithesis
8. Character
9. climax
10. conclusion
11. drama
12. epic
13. essay
14. exposition
15. falling action
16. farce
17. figurative language
18. flashback
19. foreshadowing
20. genre
21. hyperbole
22. image
23. irony
24. metaphor
25. ode
26. parody
27. personification
28. plot
29. protagonist
30. resolution
31. rising actin
32. setting
33. symbol
34. symbolism
35. Theme
"Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" By Jack Finney Vocabulary
1. projection
2. discarding
3. confirmation
4. exhalation
5. imperceptibly
6. rebounded
7. interminable
8. irrevelantly:
9. incomprehensible
10. inimpeded
11. plot
12. sequence
13. flashback
14. flash forward
15. foreshadowing
16. exposition
17. Conflict
18. complications
19. climax
20. resolution
21. setting
"The Tell Tale Heart" By Edgar Allen Poe Vocabulary
1. acute
2. conceived
3. foresight
4. dissiumulation
5. cunningly
6. vexed
7. sagacity
8. hearkening
9. awe
10. suppositions
11. unperceived
12. stealthily
13. distinctness
14. pulsation
15. concealment
16. waned
17. hastily
18. wary
19. scantlings
20. deputed
21. bade
22. audacity
23. reposed
24. derision
25. suavity
26. dismember
27. over-acuteness
28. dissemble
29. mockery
30. vehemently
"Lamb to the Slaughter" By Roald Dahl Vocabulary
1. Irony
2. Verbal Irony
3. Situational Irony
4. Dramatic Irony
5. Ambiguity
6. Anxiety
7. Placid
8. Luxuriate
9. Administered
10. Premises
11. Consoling
12. Hospitality
"Masque of the Red Death" By Edgar Allen Poe Vocabulary
1. Profuse
2. Sagacious
3. Contagion
4. Imperial
5. Emanating
6. Sedate
7. Pervaded
8. Cessation
9. Propriety
10. Tangible
"Through the Tunnel" by Doris Lessing Vocabulary
1. Symbol
2. Figurative Language
3. Theme
4. Allegory
5. Fable
6. Parable
7. Contrition
8. Supplication
9. Defiant
10. Inquisitive
11. Minute
12. Incredulous
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