English 11 Vocabulary Calendar
ENGLISH 11 VOCABULARY CALENDAR
TESTS / WORD LISTS (25 each; 250 total) / LITERARY WORKSSeptember / logic, persuasive rhetoric, ethical appeal, logical appeal, emotional appeal, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, conclusion, issue, premise, argument, thesis, claim, grounds, rebuttal, appeals to audience, logical fallacy, appeal to popular opinion, appeal to authority, ad hominem, straw man, contradiction, false assumptions, hasty generalization, begging the question / All works
September / void, contend, succumb, comply, placate, ingratiate, inundate, lament, beseech, infirmity, scoff, embody, desolate, solace, hue, providence, vanquish, aloof, procure, feign, plot, theme, setting, literal language, figurative language / The World on a Turtle’s Back, La Relacion, Of Plymouth Plantation
October / recompense, whet, wrath, loathsome, abhor, appease, incense, deliverance, mitigation, inconceivable, fanatic, paradox, injunction, dissembling, abominations, providence, disproportionate, subservient, trepidation, pilgrimage, verbal irony, dramatic irony, situational irony, tone, hyperbole / To My Dear & Loving Husband, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Crucible
November / prodigious, delusion, arbitrate, iniquity, anarchy, ascertain, indignant, ameliorate, base, flailing, calamity, grapple, contentious, deposition, plaintiff, effrontery, immaculate, inaudibly, indictment, empower, onomatopoeia, simile, paradox, alliteration, imagery / The Crucible
December / insidious, subjugation, martial, tyrannical, spurn, formidable, adversary, irresolution, vigilant, arbitrary, abdicate, mercenary, insurrection, oppressed, tacitly, corroding, legacy, synthesis, glib, repudiate, satire, metonymy, metaphor, allegory, symbol / Speech in Virginia Commons, Declaration of Independence, Poor Richard’s Almanac
January / abode, melancholy, repose, singular, daunted, surmise, resolute, prowess, ostentation, parsimony, piety, absolve, nonconformist, aversion, predominate, conscientious, endeavor, unscrupulous, abject, congenial, allusion, personification, conflict, characterization, protagonist / The Devil and Tom Walker, Self-Reliance, Civil Disobedience, Walden
February / disreputable, dissipation, magnanimity, misgiving, perennial, rudiment, sublime, implore, discourse, placid, dirge, ominous, respite, tempest, languish, evade, apprise, interminable, ineffable, consecrate, antagonist, foreshadowing, archetype, denouement, synecdoche / Walden, The Raven, The Life of Frederick Douglass, Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Gettysburg Address
March / aberration, admonition, carouse, civility, deferred, digress, doggedly, epithet, expanse, indifferent, meticulous, obstreperous, obtuse, oration, pallor, pathos, surmounting, picturesque, wallow, wistful, oxymoron, juxtaposition, motif, catharsis, stanza / Because I Could Not Stop for Death, The Open Boat
April / epigram, supercilious, effeminate, complacency, peremptory, anemic, discreet, cataracts, innuendo, apparition, affectation, labyrinth, incredulous, juxtaposition, unfathomable, exultation, notoriety, ineffable, euphemism, boisterous, anecdote, colloquialism, connotation, exposition, prose / The Great Gatsby
May / presumptuous, tumultuous, magnanimous, expostulate, truculent, redolent, fortuitous, gaudy, interminable, transitory, transient, aesthetic, ascertain, contemptuous, cynical, impetuous, profound, prodigality, saunter, vacuous, assuage, detachment, malevolent, cunning, perpetrate / The Great Gatsby; To Kill a Mockingbird
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