Your one-stop-post for all the unit 1 vocabulary we’ve covered and that you should know! We will add to this list as we continue to work our way through the Puritan and Revolutionary Period….
Literary Devices
- Rhythm
- Cacophony
- Enjambment
- Assonance
- Consonance
- Allegory
- Analogy
- Apostrophe
- Connotation
- Denotation
- Paradox
- Synecdoche
- Blank Verse
- Free Verse
- Ballad
- Ode
- Shakespearean Sonnet
- Petrarchan Sonnet
- Synesthesia
- Extended Metaphor
- Metonymy
- Authorial Intrusion
- Allusion
- Parable
- Metaphor
- Dramatic Character
- Dialogue
- Dramatic Irony
- Stage directions
- Monologue
- Tragedy
- Catharsis
- Iconography
- Stereotypes
Rhetorical Devices
- Emotional Appeals (Pathos)
- Logical Appeals (Logos)
- Ethical Appeals (Ethos)
- Speaker
- Audience
- Purpose
- Tone
- Exposition
- Narrative
- Argumentative
- Syntax
- Diction
- Parallelism
- Passive Voice
- Litotes
- Participial Phrases
- Conjunctions
- Textual Connections
- Oratory
- Satire
Contextual Vocabulary
- Divine Providence
- Theocracy
- Bible Commonwealth
- Grace
- New Eden
- Original Sin
- Predestination
- New Israelites
- McCarthyism/The Red Scare
- Mass Hysteria
- Great Awakening
- The Enlightenment
