English 11CP
2015-2016
Vocabulary – Week 4
Academic Vocabulary -I will provide definitions for these terms throughout the week. Make sure to
copy them into your Glossary (at the back of your composition book).
Hyperbole – the use of exaggerated language to make a point.
Allusion – a reference to other literary works or historical events.
Rhetorical question – a question used to make a statement rather than to obtain information.
Repetition – restating an idea using the same words
Restatement – repeating an idea in a variety of ways
Parallelism – repeating grammatical structures (for example: “I came, I saw, I conquered.”)
Reading Vocabulary
-As you complete the week’s reading, make sure to notice these words in
context and copy them in to your Glossary (at the back of your composition book).
The entry should include (1) the word, (2) the part of speech, (3) the definition (choose the one that
makes sense with the reading), and (4) the sentence or phrase that it appears in (its context).
Secular
Liberty
Indispensable
Despotism
Unalienable
Ambivalent
Isolationist
Foreign Policy
Lament
Temporal
Insidious
Subjugation
Supplication
Remonstrate