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📚English 10
Key Terms

165 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your English 10 exam

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A

A Doll's House
A Modest Proposal
A Raisin in the Sun
Active Voice
Affect vs. Effect
Alice Walker's The Color Purple
Alphanumeric outline
Analytical writing
Anapestic meter
Angels in America
Animal Farm
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to emotion
Appeal to ethos
Appeal to pathos
Archetypal characters
Archetypal criticism
Argumentative thesis
As a result
Autobiography

B

Background information
Betrayal
Bildungsroman
Biographical context
Biography
Brave New World

C

Cause-and-effect structure
Character Arc
Character foil
Character Growth
Character Motivation
Character voice
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart
Circular plot
Circular plot structure
Class struggle
Cockney English
Cohesive Devices
Comparison/contrast writing
Cultural dislocation
Cultural milieu

D

Dactylic meter
Declarative sentence
Dialogue tags
Diaspora literature
Direct characterization
Dystopian fiction

E

Epistolary Format
External conflict

F

Feminist criticism
Feminist literary criticism
Feminist reading
Filler words
Five-act structure
Flat Character
Formal tone
Frame narrative
Freudian Analysis
Freytag's Pyramid

G

Gamification
Genre conventions

H

Harper Lee
Hasty Generalization
Hero's journey
Hills Like White Elephants
Huckleberry Finn

I

Indirect characterization
Informal language
Informal tone
Internal monologue
Interpretative lens
Interrogative sentence
Intertextuality
Inverted pyramid structure
Invisible man
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