1. 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

2. 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.

3. VOCABULARY LITERARY TERMS Bastion Abstemious Belabor Decorous Fetter
Week One: Sept. 8—12
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Bastion
Abstemious
Belabor
Decorous
Fetter
Allegory
Alliteration
Allusion
Rhetoric
Rhetorical Device

4. Abdicate Banal Cadence Daunt Diatribe Analogy Anecdote Antagonist
Week Two: Sept 15—Sept 19
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Abdicate
Banal
Cadence
Daunt
Diatribe
Analogy
Anecdote
Antagonist
Characterization
Complication

5. Aberration Negligible Zealot Usurp Vacuous Anaphora Antecedent
Week Three: Sept 22—26
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Aberration
Negligible
Zealot
Usurp
Vacuous
Anaphora
Antecedent
Colloquial Expressions
Conflict
Diction

6. Pithy Whet Xenophobia Matriculate Mettle Connotation Antithesis
Week Four: Sept 29—Oct 3
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Pithy
Whet
Xenophobia
Matriculate
Mettle
Connotation
Antithesis
Archetype
Arguments
Comic Relief

7. Atrophy Boon Copious Depravity Egregious Concession Foreshadowing
Week Five: Oct 6—9
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Atrophy
Boon
Copious
Depravity
Egregious
Concession
Foreshadowing
Gothic
Grotesque
Mood

8. Limpid Machination Maelstrom Exhume Exoneration Vernacular Voice Tone
Week Six: Oct 14—17
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Limpid
Machination
Maelstrom
Exhume
Exoneration
Vernacular
Voice
Tone
Thesis
Stereotype

9. Acerbic Cajole Corroborate Disseminate Duress Personification
Week Seven: Oct 20—24
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Acerbic
Cajole
Corroborate
Disseminate
Duress
Personification
Paraphrase
Paradox
Legend
Hyperbole

10. Deciduous Edify Fractious Garrulous Glib Denouement Dramatic Irony
Week Eight: Oct 27—31
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Deciduous
Edify
Fractious
Garrulous
Glib
Denouement
Dramatic Irony
Ellipsis
Autobiography
Apostrophe

11. Bamboozle Hyperbole Iconoclast Ilk Hinterland Asyndeton Assonance
Week Nine: Nov 3—7
VOCABULARY
LITERARY TERMS
Bamboozle
Hyperbole
Iconoclast
Ilk
Hinterland
Asyndeton
Assonance
Blank Verse
Cacophony
Comedy

12. Rhetorical TERMS—need handout
Week Ten: Nov 10—14
VOCABULARY
Rhetorical TERMS—need handout
Abase
Circumspect
Doppelganger
Ensconce
Imbue
Abstract
Caricature
Diction
Exposition
Inversion

13. VOCABULARY Rhetorical TERMS Promulgation Unsepulchered Degeneracy
Week Eleven: Nov 17—21
VOCABULARY
Rhetorical TERMS
Promulgation
Unsepulchered
Degeneracy
Firebrand
Martyrdom
Pacing
Rhetorical Modes
Syntactic Fluency
Allegory
Colloquialism

14. VOCABULARY Rhetorical TERMS Hephaestus Vicissitudes Edict Bairns
Week Twelve: Nov 24—28
VOCABULARY
Rhetorical TERMS
Hephaestus
Vicissitudes
Edict
Bairns
Flagrantly
Anecdote
Antithesis
Coherence/Unity
Concrete Language
Didactic

15. Syntactic Permutation
Week Thirteen: Dec 1—5
VOCABULARY
Rhetorical TERMS
Deference
Foment
Reprobate
Loggerhead
Insolent
Generalization
Jargon
Parable
Rhetorical Question
Syntactic Permutation

16. The Final Quiz for Semester One!
Week Fourteen: Dec 8—12
VOCABULARY
Rhetorical TERMS
Anachronism
Belie
Callow
Colloquy
Didactic
Annotation
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Connotation
Discourse
The Final Quiz for Semester One!