SAT Vocabulary and Literary Terms
WEEKLY REVIEW OF VOCABULARY AND
TERMS IN PREPARATION OF THE LANGUAGE
AND COMPOSITION EXAM
INCLUDES 14 WEEKS OF SAT AND
LITERARY/RHETORICAL TERMS
Vocabulary Norms
 Students receive the words on MONDAY (or access
online at beginning of the semester).
 Students review the words on THURSDAY:
Homework check for ten points, and peer groups to
discuss.
 Students take a quiz on the words on FRIDAY:
Students have no more than ten minutes to complete
the quiz. Students must use their own paper in MLA
format to complete the quiz. All test sheets are
returned, unmarked, to the teacher.
Week One: Sept. 8—12
VOCABULARY
Bastion
Abstemious
Belabor
Decorous
Fetter
LITERARY
TERMS
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Device
Week Two: Sept 15—Sept 19
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Abdicate
Banal
Cadence
Daunt
Diatribe
Analogy
Anecdote
Antagonist
Characterization
Complication
Week Three: Sept 22—26
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Aberration
Negligible
Zealot
Usurp
Vacuous
Anaphora
Antecedent
Colloquial Expressions
Conflict
Diction
Week Four: Sept 29—Oct 3
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Pithy
Whet
Xenophobia
Matriculate
Mettle
Connotation
Antithesis
Archetype
Arguments
Comic Relief
Week Five: Oct 6—9
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Atrophy
Boon
Copious
Depravity
Egregious
Concession
Foreshadowing
Gothic
Grotesque
Mood
Week Six: Oct 14—17
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Limpid
Machination
Maelstrom
Exhume
Exoneration
Vernacular
Voice
Tone
Thesis
Stereotype
Week Seven: Oct 20—24
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Acerbic
Cajole
Corroborate
Disseminate
Duress
Personification
Paraphrase
Paradox
Legend
Hyperbole
Week Eight: Oct 27—31
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Deciduous
Edify
Fractious
Garrulous
Glib
Denouement
Dramatic Irony
Ellipsis
Autobiography
Apostrophe
Week Nine: Nov 3—7
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Bamboozle
Hyperbole
Iconoclast
Ilk
Hinterland
Asyndeton
Assonance
Blank Verse
Cacophony
Comedy
Week Ten: Nov 10—14
VOCABULARY
Abase
Circumspect
Doppelganger
Ensconce
Imbue
Rhetorical
TERMS—need
handout
Abstract
Caricature
Diction
Exposition
Inversion
Week Eleven: Nov 17—21
VOCABULARY
Promulgation
Unsepulchered
Degeneracy
Firebrand
Martyrdom
Rhetorical
TERMS
Pacing
Rhetorical Modes
Syntactic Fluency
Allegory
Colloquialism
Week Twelve: Nov 24—28
VOCABULARY
Hephaestus
Vicissitudes
Edict
Bairns
Flagrantly
Rhetorical
TERMS
Anecdote
Antithesis
Coherence/Unity
Concrete Language
Didactic
Week Thirteen: Dec 1—5
VOCABULARY
Deference
Foment
Reprobate
Loggerhead
Insolent
Rhetorical TERMS
Generalization
Jargon
Parable
Rhetorical Question
Syntactic Permutation
Week Fourteen: Dec 8—12
VOCABULARY
Rhetorical TERMS
Anachronism
Belie
Callow
Colloquy
Didactic
Annotation
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Connotation
Discourse
The Final Quiz for Semester One!