SAT Vocabulary
The football game was ______________ with excitement and great plays.
What is replete?
The narrative perspective from which events in a story or novel are told, usually first-person or third-person.
What is point of view?
A dramatic work that is light and often humorous in tone, usually ending happily with a peaceful resolution of the main conflict.
What is a comedy?
A point-by-point comparison between two things for the purpose of clarifying the less familiar of the two subjects.
What is an analogy?
A writer usually writes to inform, to entertain, to express himself or herself, or to persuade readers to do something or believe something.
This is known as the writer's purpose.
The ________________ author received the Nobel Prize for literature.
What is eminent?
Writing that imitates either the style or the subject matter of a literary work for the purposes of humor, criticism, or flattering tribute.
What is a parody?
A dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignified character who is involved in historically, morally, or socially significant events.
What is a tragedy?
Speech or writing that expresses a position on an issue or problem and supports it with reasons and evidence.
What is an argument?
The central or most important aspect of a topic that the writer conveys.
What is the main idea?
My cousin is so ______________ in schoolwork that his friends call him a bookworm.
What is steeped?
Two contradictory terms, such as "venomous love" or "sweet bitterness"?
What is an oxymoron?
In an argument, the controlling idea is an expression of the claim the writer is trying to make. In an essay, the controlling idea, also known as the _____ _______, shows the main idea or purpose of the essay.
What is thesis statement?
In an argument, the writer's position on an issue or problem.
What is a claim?
An oversimplified image of a group, a person, or an institution.
What is a stereotype?
After skiing, I find that I have a ______________ appetite.
What is voracious?
A literary technique in which foolish ideas or
customs are ridiculed for the purpose of
improving society.
What is satire?
The sequence of actions and events in a literary novel or work.
What is the plot?
The people, and sometimes the animals, who take part in the action of a story or novel.
What are characters?
The principal character, or hero, of a narrative or drama.
What is protagonist?
Modern warfare often results in the ____________
killing of combatants and innocent civilians alike.
What is indiscriminate?
A contrast between appearance and reality.
What is irony?
In a drama, when a character is alone on the stage voicing his thoughts, this is called...
What is a monologue?
People that evolve as individuals, learning from their experiences and growing emotionally versus people in a story that act the same and do not change.
What are dynamic versus flat characters?
The character in opposition to the protagonist, or hero of a narrative or drama. Can also be a force of nature.
What is antagonist?