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NAME:……………………………………………………………………………

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 3: TYPES OF WRITING

1. RHAPSODY

2. SATIRE

3. STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

4. TEXT

5. TRAGICOMEDY

6. TUDOR RANT

7. UTOPIA

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:

“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 6: ANALYSIS

1. ELLIPSES

2. EXEGESIS

3. GLOSS

4. GLOSSARY

5. PROSODY

6. SCANSION

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:

“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 9: WORDPLAY

1. ANTONYM

2. APTRONYM

3. CHARACTERNYM

4. PALINDROME

5. PORTMANTEAU WORD

6. PUN

7. SNYNONYM

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

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

NOTES:

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:

“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 14: AUTHOR AND READER

1. CANON

2. NOM DE PLUME

3. OEUVRE

4. RECEPTION

5. VERISIMILITUDE

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:

“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

1. QUERULOUS

2. RESESENTMENT

3. SELF-ASSURED

4. SELF-CONGRATULATORY

5. SARDONIC

SET 17: EMOTIONS

6. SUBMISSIVE

7. THREATENING

8. STOICAL

9. VENGEFUL

10. WEARINESS

“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

HAPPY

SAD

GUILTY

In the boxes below, add stronger words for the

following:

ANGRY

HATE

LOVE

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PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY

TIMES/MOVEMENTS

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

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

“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

NOTES:

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:

“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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WORD DEFINITION

WORD DEFINITION

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WORD DEFINITION

WORD DEFINITION

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Apps for

Spelling and

Grammar

About: There are a range of useful

Spelling and Grammar Applications that

can be downloaded through Android or

IOS mobile devices.

Why? New GCSE is 20% SPaG.

Some Recommended:

Vocabulary HD

GCSE English Revision Guide (Pearson)

Pearson Writer

My Grammar Lab Intermediate

Graded Grammar (KS3)

External

Websites and

Resources

About: Wellington offers a range of

external websites and resources where

students can gain extra knowledge about

texts, literary movements, literary

criticisms and other information.

Why? A Level (AO5 requires literary criticism)

and GCSE (AO3 requires knowledge of literary

context).

Some Recommended:

JSTOR

Wellington Library Intranet

Edexcel Website for Course

Information

Books to read:

About: Students should always read.

Why? It has been proven that reading

enhances a child’s chances of success.

Furthermore, it will develop students into

a more knowledgeable, intellectual and

empathetic pupil.

GCSE – Need to understand Unseen 19th

Century literature for exam.

A Level/IB – Must have solid breadth of

knowledge in context, form and meaning.

Some Recommended:

All of the following books can be found in the

English Department and lent out to students.

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

+ many more!

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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