Literary Terms
Class text vocabulary
PWL 1
PWL 2
PWL 3
100

Describing someone who has a different life apart from the one we know. 

Alter Ego

100

A small hill. 

Hillocks

100

To give off or spread out from a center. 

Radiating

100

A medicine or treatment that helps cure a disease. 

Remedies

100

To move or revolve around. 

Circling

200

A poem of mourning. 

Elegy

200

A loud continued noise. 

Din

200

Relating to a demon. 

Demonic

200

A disability that’s left after a disease or operation. 

Residual

200

Lacking in caution. 

Reckless

300

Somebody gets so confident that they make all these foolish choices that backfire on them. 

Hubris

300

To hesitate as if about to give way

Wavered

300

A covered wagon that can be used for trade or even a circus. 

Caravan

300

A red powder/cosmetic to color cheeks/lips. 

Rouge

300

A public square in a town or city. 

Plaza

400

Repeating the same word in different ways. 

Polyptoton

400

Being weak of character. 

Unmanly

400

Something that is extremely tangled. 

Snarled

400

A small hill. 

Hillocks

400

Relating to the earliest age or period. 

Primitive

500

A system of symbols or representations

Symbolism

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