Vocab Booster SAT Supplement Vocabulary: Storybook Words

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  1. allegory
    a short moral story
  2. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  3. anthology
    a collection of selected literary passages
  4. bard
    a lyric poet
  5. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  6. epic
    a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  7. epilogue
    a short speech by an actor at the end of a play
  8. fable
    a short moral story
  9. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
  10. parable
    a short moral story
  11. prologue
    an introductory section of a novel or other literary work
  12. protagonist
    the principal character in a work of fiction
  13. saga
    a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family
  14. scenario
    a postulated sequence of possible events
  15. setting
    the physical position of something
  16. stanza
    a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
  17. subject
    some situation or event that is thought about
  18. theme
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  19. tome
    a large and scholarly book
  20. undertone
    a subdued or implied meaning of an utterance
  21. verse
    literature in metrical form
  22. vignette
    a brief literary description
  23. adage
    a condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
  24. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  25. maxim
    a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
  26. tenet
    a basic principle or belief that is accepted as true
  27. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  28. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  29. document
    a representation of a person's thinking with symbolic marks
  30. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  31. hieroglyphic
    a writing system using picture symbols
  32. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  33. idiom
    expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words
  34. illegible
    unable to be read
  35. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  36. inscription
    the activity of carving or engraving letters or words
  37. jargon
    technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
  38. lexicon
    a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
  39. neologism
    a newly invented word or phrase
  40. pun
    a humorous play on words
  41. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  42. rhetorical
    relating to using language effectively
  43. semantic
    of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning
  44. transcribe
    write out, as from speech or notes
  45. vernacular
    the everyday speech of the people
Created on Fri Jan 31 17:36:19 EST 2020 (updated Thu Apr 02 20:06:28 EDT 2020)

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