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WELLINGTON COLLEGE ENGLISH
STUDENT BOOKLET:
SPELLING LISTS & KEY VOCABULARY
AIM: THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS A LIST OF WORDS THAT WILL ENHANCE YOUR VOCABULARY AND
ENABLE YOU TO ANALYSE AND EXPRESS IDEAS WITH SOPHISTICATION. IT IS TO BE USED NOT ONLY
AS A TEACHER TOOL BUT SHOULD BE REFLECTED UPON AND STUDIED IN YOUR OWN TIME.
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SET 1: TYPES OF WRITING
1. ALLEGORY
2. APOLOGY
3. APOSTROPHE
4. BEAST FABLE
5. BILDUNGSROMAN
6. BURLESQUE
7. COMEDY
8. DISCOURSE
9. DYSTOPIA
10. EMBLEM
11. EPIC
12. EPIGRAM
13. EPISTOLARY NOVEL
14. EPITAPH
15. FABLE
16. FABLIAU
17. FARCE
18. FICTION
19. FURNITURE
20. GENRE
SET 2: TYPES OF WRITING
1. GOTHIC
2. HYMN
3. ILLUSION
4. JEREMAD
5. JUVENILIA
6. KUNSTLERROMAN
7. LAMPOON
8. LEGEND
9. MELODRAMA
10. METAFICTION
11. MONOGRAPH
12. NARRATIVE
13. PANEGYRIC
14. PARODY
15. PASQUINADE
16. PASTICHE
17. PASTORAL
18. PETRARCHAN
19. PHILIPPIC
20. REVERDIE
NOTES:
SET 3: TYPES OF WRITING
1. RHAPSODY
2. SATIRE
3. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
4. TEXT
5. TRAGICOMEDY
6. TUDOR RANT
7. UTOPIA
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them
properly -- they’ll go through anything.
You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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SET 4: TYPES OF POETRY
1. ACROSTIC
2. AUBADE
3. BALLAD
4. COMPLAINT
5. DOGGEREL
6. ELEGY
7. FREE VERSE
8. EPITHALAMION
9. HAIKU
10. LAMENT
11. LYRIC
12. MONODY
13. OCCASIONAL VERSE
14. ODE
15. PAEAN
16. PALINODE
17. RHAPSODY
18. SONNET
19. THRENODY
20. TOPOGRAPHICAL
SET 5: SOUND TECHNIQUES
1. ALLITERATION
2. ANAPHORA
3. ASSONANCE
4. CACOPHONY
5. CADENCE
6. CONSONANCE
7. ELISION
8. EUPHONY
9. HOMONYM
10. HOMOPHONE
11. INFLECTION
12. ONOMATOPOEIA
13. RHYME
14. RHYTHM
15. SIBILANCE
16. STRESS
17. SYNCOPE
18. IAMBIC
19. TROCHAIC
20. METER
NOTES:
SET 6: ANALYSIS
1. ELLIPSES
2. EXEGESIS
3. GLOSS
4. GLOSSARY
5. PROSODY
6. SCANSION
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you!
Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always
searching for new sensations. Be afraid of
nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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SET 7: POETIC AND LITERARY DEVICES
1. ANAPEST
2. ANAPHORA
3. ASYNDENTON
4. BLANK VERSE
5. CAESURA
6. CANTO
7. COUPLET
8. DACTYL
9. ELISION
10. END-STOPPED
11. ENJAMBMENT
12. FREE VERSE
13. HEROIC COUPLET
14. IAMB
15. METER
16. OCTAVE
17. PENTAMETER
18. PETRARCHAN
19. POLYSYNDENTON
20. PROSODY
SET 8: POETIC AND LITERARY DEVICES
1. QUATRAIN
2. REFRAIN
3. RHYME
4. SCANSION
5. SESTET /SEXTET
6. SPONDEE
7. STANZA
8. SYNCOPE
9. TRIPLET
10. TROCHEE
11. VERSIFICATION
12. VOLTA
13. ANAGNORISIS
14. ANALEPSIS
15. OXYMORON
16. SIMILE
17. METAPHOR
18. PARADOX
19. REPETITION
20. IMAGERY
SET 9: WORDPLAY
1. ANTONYM
2. APTRONYM
3. CHARACTERNYM
4. PALINDROME
5. PORTMANTEAU WORD
6. PUN
7. SNYNONYM
NOTES:
“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off
from all the world; but on that account we
shall be more attached to one another.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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SET 10: POETIC AND LITERARY DEVICES
1. ONOMATOPOEIA
2. PLOSIVE
3. SIBILANCE
4. ASSONANCE
5. JUXTAPOSITION
6. SEMANTIC FIELD
7. ANTITHESIS
8. AMBIGUITY
9. ANACHRONISM
10. CLICHÉ
11. HYPERBOLE
12. IRONY
13. ANTHROMORPHISM
14. PATHETIC FALLACY
15. DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE
16. QUATRAIN
17. TRIPTYCH
18. VOLTA
19. PROTAGONIST
20. CONGERIES
SET 11: RHETORIC
1. LOGOS
2. PATHOS
3. ETHOS
4. ALLUSION
5. ANTANAGOGE
6. APORIA
7. APPOSITIVE
8. CHIASMUS
9. DIACOPE
10. EPITHET
11. EPANALEPSIS
12. HYPOPHORA
13. HYPOTAXIS
14. METABASIS
15. PARALLELISM
16. PLEONASM
17. SENTENTIA
18. UNDERSTATEMENT
19. RHETORICAL QUESTION
20. ZEUGMA
NOTES:
NOTES:
“I was surprised, as always, be how easy
the act of leaving was, and how good it
felt. The world was suddenly rich with
possibility.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
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SET 12: VOICE AND TONE
1. ALLEGORY
2. APOLOGY
3. APOSTROPHE
4. BEAST FABLE
5. BILDUNGSROMAN
6. BURLESQUE
7. COMEDY
8. DISCOURSE
9. DYSTOPIA
10. EMBLEM
11. EPIC
12. EPIGRAM
13. EPISTOLARY NOVEL
14. EPITAPH
15. FABLE
16. FABLIAU
17. FARCE
18. FICTION
19. FURNITURE
20. GENRE
SET 13: CHARACTERS
1. ANTAGONIST
2. ANTI-HERO
3. ANTIC DISPOSITION
4. APTRONYM
5. ARCHETYPE
6. BYRONIC HERO
7. CHARACTERSATION
8. DIALOGUE
9. EPONYMOUS HERO
10. HAMARTIA
11. HERO/HEROINE
12. IDEOLECT
13. MACHIAVELLIAN CHARACTER
14. NEMESIS
15. PERSONA
16. PROTAGONIST
17. PSYCHOMACHIA
18. OMNISCIENT
19. RELIABLE
20. TRAGIC FLAW
NOTES:
SET 14: AUTHOR AND READER
1. CANON
2. NOM DE PLUME
3. OEUVRE
4. RECEPTION
5. VERISIMILITUDE
“she loved to walk down the street with a book under
her arm. It had the same significance for her as an
elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It
differentiated her from others.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of
Being
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SET 15: EMOTIONS
1. AGGRAVATION
2. AGITATION
3. AFFECTION
4. ALIENATION
5. ANGUISH
6. APPREHENSION
7. ATTACHMENT
8. BASHFULNESS
9. BEWILDERMENT
10. BOREDOM
11. COMPASSION
12. CONTEMPTUOUSNESS
13. COMPLIANT
14. CONCEITED
15. DEFIANT
16. DEPENDENT
17. DISENCHANTED
18. DISILLUSIONED
19. DISSATISFIED
20. ELATED
SET 16: EMOTIONS
1. ENAMORED
2. ECSTATIC
3. ENRAPTURED
4. EQUANIMITY
5. EUPHORIA
6. EXASPERATION
7. EXUBERANT
8. FASCINATED
9. FATALISTIC
10. FEROCITY
11. GUILT
12. HOSTILITY
13. INTROVERTED
14. ISOLATED
15. INFATUATED
16. JOVIALITY
17. JADED
18. LOATHING
19. MORTIFIED
20. NEGLECTED
SET 17: EMOTIONS
6. SUBMISSIVE
7. THREATENING
8. STOICAL
9. VENGEFUL
10. WEARINESS
SET 17: EMOTIONS
1. QUERULOUS
2. RESESENTMENT
3. SELF-ASSURED
4. SELF-CONGRATULATORY
5. SARDONIC
“Words can be like X-rays if you use them
properly -- they’ll go through anything.
You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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Activity: SYNONYMS FOR OVERUSED
EMOTIONS
In the boxes below, add stronger words for the
following:
HAPPY
ANGRY
SAD
HATE
GUILTY
LOVE
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PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY
TIMES/MOVEMENTS
PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY
TIMES/MOVEMENTS
Set 19:
1. MARXISM
2. PSYCHOANALYTIC
3. STRUCTURALIST
4. SEMIOTICS
5. STOICISM
6. IDEALISM
7. HEDONISM
8. RATIONALISM
9. UTILITARIANISM
10. CONSEQUENTIALIST
11. EMPIRICIST
12. PLATONIC REALISM
13. NIHILISM
14. CHIVALRIC
15. VICTORIAN
16. ELIZABETHAN
17. JACOBEAN
18. ENLIGHTENMENT
19. SCIENTIFIC RATIONALISM
20. SELF NARRATIVE
SET 18:
1. ROMANTICISM
2. UTOPIAN
3. DYSTOPIAN
4. HUMANISM
5. EXISTENTIALISM
6. FREUDIAN
7. FEMINISM
8. MODERNISM
9. POSTMODERNISM
10. COLONIALISM
11. POST COLONIALISM
12. RENAISSANCE
13. TRANSCENDENTALISM
14. REALISM
15. CAVALIER
16. METAPHYSICAL
17. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
18. SURREALISM
19. ARTHURIAN
20. CONCEPT OF SELF
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty
never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka
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SET 20: OTHER TRICKY WORDS
1. DISAPPOINTED
2. BEGINNING
3. DEFINITELY
4. DEFIANT
5. EXACERBATED
6. EXAGGERATED
7. EMPHASISE
8. ALLUDES
9. ALLUSION
10. ILLUSTRATES
11. SHAKESPEARE
12. ARCHETYPE
13. CONSCIOUSNESS
14. CONSCIENTIOUS
15. SOLILOQUY
16. COLLOQUIAL
17. CORRELATION
18. PERSUASION
19. ACKNOWLEDGE
20. PROPHECY
SET 21: OTHER TRICKY WORDS
1. FULFIL
2. EMPATHISE
3. SYMPATHISE
4. PERCEIVE
5. ACCOMMODATE
6. APPARENT
7. BUSINESS
8. RHETORICAL
9. DIPLOMATIC
10. SOCIETY
11. BANAL
12. SOMBRE
13. TRAGEDY
14. PERSPECTIVE
15. PERCEPTION
16. SOCIOLOGICAL
17. PSYCHOLOGICAL
18. EXHILARATING
19. PLETHORA
20. ABUNDANCE
NOTES:
NOTES:
“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I
establish today. I am today what I established
yesterday or some previous day.”
― James Joyce
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood
Emma – Austen
The Secret Scripture – Barry
Jane Eyre – Bronte
Wuthering Heights – Bronte
Madame Bovary – Flaubert
Great Expectations – Dickens
Heart of Darkness – Conrad
The Secret Agent – Conrad
Moll Flanders – Defoe
My Family and Other Animals – Durrell
Engleby – Faulks
Free Fall – Golding
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night time – Haddon
The Kite Runner – Hosseini
Brave New World - Huxley
On the Road – Kerouac
Nineteen Eighty Four – Orwell
Frankenstein – Shelley
Anything Shakespeare
Dracula – Stoker
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“I decline to accept the end of man... I refuse to
accept this. I believe that man will not merely
endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not
because he alone among the creatures has an
inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a
spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and
endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to
write about these things. It is his privilege to help
man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding
him of the courage and honour and hope and
pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice
which have been the glory of his past. The poet's
voice need not merely be the record of man, it
can be one of the props, the pillars to help him
endure and prevail.”
― William Faulkner
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