ENGLISH LITERATURE GLOSSARIES - Ayesha

1 TES Connect Digital Publishing Copyright TSL Education Ltd 2013 ENGLISH LITERATURE GLOSSARIESCONTENTSG eneral Vocab: ENGLISH LITERATURE Key Text: An Inspector Calls Key Text: The History Boys Key Text: A View from the Bridge Key Text: Pride and Prejudice Key Text: Lord of the Flies Key Text: Of Mice and Men Key Text: To Kill a Mockingbird Appendices: lists for quick-fire spelling tests in each cards for revising key words and definitionsGeneral ENGLISH LiteratureGeneral ENGLISH LiteratureadjectiveWords that are used to describe or modify (v.)To make a difference of a consonant sound at the beginning of closely connected character who works against the main character in a novel or central character in a story who lacks typical characteristics of a hero, such as courage or collected group of people watching a play (NB.)

2 Do not talk about readers when writing about a play).authorSomeone who writes books, articles or person in a play or the characters in a story are like and how the writer shows this to division of society according to social or economic play based on amusing events, which ends with characters triumphing over their consider the differences and similarities between two to or happening in the present ideas, customs and artistic traditions of a particular To give a detailed account of or conversation between ironyThe reader or audience is given information of which the characters are nightmare vision of society, in which everything is unpleasant.

3 The opposite of (n.)The result or consequence the emotions of readers or give special importance to or lay stress upon of women s rights and the equality of the scene in a novel or play that is set in an earlier time than the rest of the : Glossary: 5foreshadowingWhen an author or playwright hints at plot events before they state of being male or female, with an emphasis on cultural rather than biological style or category of LITERATURE , eg, crime, science genre of fiction that combines elements of horror and contextEvents, ideas and culture of the time and place a text was exaggeration for emphasis or effect.

4 ImageryFigurative or descriptive language used to create a vivid picture in the reader s work something out from evidence and power to affect the thoughts and behaviour of a point using language that usually means the important topic or problem that the story words that a writer uses to a word or phrase to an object or action it is not literally applicable word, name or expression used to suggest something with which it is closely long, uninterrupted speech by one character in a code of values that defines behaviour as right or voice in which a story is character who tells the long prose narrative that describes fictional events or word that imitates the sound of the thing it names, eg, crash, figure of speech that places apparently contradictory terms fallacyAttributing human emotions to something that is not human, eg, weather reflecting the mood of a social system in which men hold the power and women have very ENGLISH LiteratureGeneral ENGLISH LiteratureGlossary: Glossary.

5 47personificationGiving human characteristics to an object, animal or abstract idea, eg, the dog convince someone to do something or behave in a certain who writes main events of a play, novel or main character in a novel or a word, phrase or sound is repeated for dramatic questionA question that does not expect an section of continuous action in a play in which the time and setting usually remain the place and time in which the events of a story ) The capacity to experience sexual ) A person s sexual orientation or of the s or sh sound to create a hissing important; worth one thing to another using the word like or as , eg, smooth as group of people living together in an ordered directionAn instruction in the text of a play that suggests how scenes should be acted or the events of a play or novel are organised.

6 The shape of the secondary storyline that supports the main an object to represent an idea or topic or idea that is central to the story of a novel or play, eg, belief or behaviour that has been passed down through play based on human suffering, which often ends with the downfall of the main ENGLISH LiteratureGeneral ENGLISH LiteratureGlossary: Glossary: 6An Inspector CallsAn Inspector CallsKey Text Glossary: Key Text Glossary: BirlingSurname of the middle class family visited by Inspector industrial city in the north economic system in which trade is controlled by private businesses, rather than by the help or money to those in dramatic ending that leaves the audience anxious to find out what happens ironyThe reader or audience is given information of which the characters are room theatreA type of Victorian drama in which the main action takes place in a drawing to or characteristic of the reign of King Edward VII (1901-1910).

7 Eva SmithA working class girl who is also known as Daisy womanA woman who is thought to have lost her innocence and fallen from the grace of CroftA handsome young aristocrat who is engaged to Sheila to have higher standards or principles than one does in GooleA mysterious man who is investigating the suicide of Eva B. PriestleyEnglish dramatist whose plays were first performed during the 1930s and code of values that defines behaviour as right or or relating to the social system in which men hold the power and women have very person who engages in sex activity in return for ) Having a duty to take care of )

8 Being to blame for pretty daughter of Mr and Mrs system in which production and distribution are owned by the community as a act of taking one s own Birling s snobbish suspense within the attraction to members of one s own remark that has a double meaning, often disparaging or a point using language that usually means the young history teacher, recruited to help coach students applying for history teacher who has a traditional style and is interested in the universities of Oxford and method and practice of study of fundamental problems, such as those connected to knowledge, reality and youngest pupil; gay and known more for his athletic skills than his pupil; plays to pupil of Asian BennettEnglish playwright who was born in Leeds and studied history at the University of schoolA state secondary school that does not select its students on the basis of academic whose hobby is programme of study followed by a school or and sexually confident pupil.

9 Dith PiafFrench singer who became internationally popular during the improve or enhance the quality of something.(Cutlers ) grammar schoolA state secondary school that selects students by their academic of ENGLISH , who is close to retirement and who values knowledge and art for its own History BoysThe History BoysKey Text Glossary: Key Text Glossary: 1110 SheffieldAn industrial city in South tense used to express that which is imagined, wished or policy and political style of Conservative politician Margaret pupil known for being a for high-level study and H. AudenAnglo-American poet, born in 1907 and now regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th History BoysKey Text Glossary: 1312honourPerceived worthiness and respectability, which affects social by person who goes to live permanently in a different country to the one in which they were BureauGovernment organisation that monitors and polices dock worker; loads and unloads cargo from masculine s cousin; immigrant worker who has a wife and children still living in HookA very poor area of Brooklyn which faces the bay and the Brooklyn s younger brother.

10 Attractive and area of land where ships are built and large island off the coast of Italy. tragedyA play based on human suffering, which often ends with the downfall of the main character. bathosAn abrupt change in style from sublime to Italian lawyer who acts as the chorus of the MillerAmerican playwright; his major plays were first performed during the 1940s and 1950s. BeatriceEddie s wife; a loving and caring borough of New York City which is known for its cultural orphaned daughter of Beatrice s character in a play who comments on the main action; originates from ancient Greek legal resident of a an immigrant back to their country of ironyThe reader or audience is given information of which the characters are CarboneHead of the Carbone family.