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Academic Vocabulary

This guide explores essential literary terms and devices, helping readers comprehend and analyze literature. Key concepts include allegory, where characters represent different meanings, and alliteration, the repetition of sounds to evoke mood. It also covers direct and indirect characterization, various types of conflict, and narrative perspectives like first-person and third-person. Whether studying drama, fiction, or poetry, mastering these terms enhances literary appreciation and critical thinking, making it easier to engage with a wide range of texts.

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Academic Vocabulary

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  1. Academic Vocabulary English

  2. allegory • Characters in a story represent a different meaning

  3. alliteration • Repetition of sounds to create a mood

  4. allusion • Figure of speech which references another piece of literature, art, history

  5. anaphora • Repetition of word or words at beginning of sentence

  6. antagonist • Character who opposes or is in opposition to the main character(protagonist)

  7. asyndeton • Omission of conjuctions

  8. climax • Turning point in the story • Things change here!

  9. conflict • Disagreement between 2 or more characters/forces in a story

  10. Direct characterization • Author tells us directly about a character

  11. drama • Literature meant to be performed by actors on a stage with dialogue

  12. Dramatic irony • Audience knows something the actors do not

  13. Dynamic character • Character who changes throughout the story

  14. epic • Story involving a long journey, supernatural hero, mythical creatures

  15. Extended metaphor • Author uses a comparison throughout a piece

  16. fiction • Writing from the author’s imagination

  17. First person point of view • “I” tell the story

  18. Flat character • Character with only 1 trait; not really developed throughout work

  19. genre • Type of literature e.g. short story, poem, drama,

  20. hyperbole • Figure of speech which exaggerates statements

  21. idiom • Group of words which take on a totally different meaning in context

  22. Indirect characterization • Author shows us about a character

  23. Man vs. man • Conflict where one man has a problem with another man

  24. Man vs. society • Conflict where a man has a conflict with the accepted ways of doing things

  25. metaphor • Comparison of unlike items not using “like” or “as”

  26. monologue • An extended uninterrupted speech by a character in a drama

  27. mood • How you feel while reading a story

  28. nonfiction • Writing which tells about real people and events without changing facts

  29. paradox • Character with seemingly contradictory qualities

  30. parallelism • Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

  31. parody • Style of a work is imitated for comic relief or ridicule • E.g.-Saturday Night Live

  32. personification • Giving inanimate objects human qualities

  33. plot • Sequence of events in a story

  34. Point of view • Angle from which story is told

  35. polysyndeton • Numerous conjunctions used in between words and phrases

  36. protagonist • Main character of a piece of literature

  37. pun • play on words

  38. Resolution/denouement • End of the story where the problems are solved

  39. Rhetorical question • Question which does not expect/demand an answer

  40. satire • Author pokes fun of a group in hopes to bring about change

  41. setting • Time, place, and situation of a story

  42. simile • Comparison of unlike items using “like” and “as”

  43. Situational irony • Contrast between what happens and what is expected to happen

  44. soliloquy • Dramatic speech where one character talks to himself and reveals his thoughts

  45. sonnet • 14 line poem, 3 quatrains and 1 rhyming couplet

  46. Static character • Character does not change throughout story

  47. syntax • The way words are grouped together

  48. theme • Central idea of a piece of writing, message of truth about life, must be one sentence

  49. Third person limited • Narrator relates thoughts and feelings of only one character in story

  50. Third person omniscient • Narrator reveals thoughts and feelings of all characters

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