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🥏English 11
Key Terms

166 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your English 11 exam

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A

A Midsummer Night's Dream
Absurdism
Active Voice
Ad hominem
Analytical essay
Animal Farm
Anton Chekhov
Apa format
Apa style
Audience perception

B

Biography

C

Card stacking
Categorical organization
Celebrity autobiography
Ceremonial speech
Character arc
Character archetypes
Character Motivation
Childhood home
Cohesive Devices
Colloquial language
Complex Sentences
Compound sentence
Compound-complex sentences
Concrete poetry
Conflict
Content analysis
Contextual meaning
Conversational style
Copyright
Cultural Critique

D

Descriptive essay

E

Elizabethan Era
Emily Dickinson
Enclosed Rhyme
Expository Essay
External conflict

F

Falling Action
False equivalence
Fate vs. free will
Feminist criticism
First conditional
First-person narrative
First-person perspective
First-person point of view
Flannery O'Connor
Foil
Foreshadowing
Formal tone
Found poetry
Freytag's Pyramid

G

Genre blending
Genre expectations
Genre hybridity
Genre shift
Gerund phrase
Globe Theatre
Gustatory imagery

H

Hamlet
Hasty Generalization
Henrik Ibsen

I

Iambic pentameter
Identity crisis
Implied meaning
Inciting incident
Indirect characterization
Inferential Questions
Infinitive phrase
Inner dialogue
Internal rhyme
Interpreter of Maladies
Interpretive Lens
Intransitive Verbs
Irregular rhyme schemes

K

Kinesthetic imagery