1. Academic Vocabulary

2. Science Fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes and extraterrestrial life.

3. Fantasy Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary plot element, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic and magical creatures are common

4. Utopia any visionary system of political or social perfection.

5. Dystopia a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding

6. Etymology The derivation of a word; the different ways a word is made using its origin.

7. Plot Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story

8. Setting Where the action of a novel, play, film, etc., takes place

9. Conflict In literature, a conflict is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist.

10. Imagery Vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste). See the examples below.

11. Irony a technique of indicating, as through character or plot development, an intention or attitude opposite to that which is actually or evidently stated.

12. Metaphor Compares two unrelated things without using like or as.

13. Foreshadowing to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure

14. Motif a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.

15. Allusion a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. Example: “Don’t act like a Romeo in front of her.” – “Romeo” is a reference to Shakespeare’s Romeo, a passionate lover of Juliet, in “Romeo and Juliet”.