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11th Grade Vocabulary Words

Eleventh-grade readers work across complex arguments, literary forms, scientific models, quantitative reasoning, civic institutions, social analysis, and precise academic prose. This level emphasizes disciplinary meanings, source evaluation, rhetorical and linguistic analysis, transparent morphology, and the careful use of context and reference tools when a word has several possible senses.

This independently authored 800-word beta curriculum is arranged in twenty-three pages of up to thirty-five words. Pages containing words 1–500 include five cloze questions drawn only from that enhanced range; words 501–800 remain fully visible and editable as list pages while expanded practice is developed. Every row includes an editable subject-field label and a conservative word-study note about transparent affixes, compound structure, capitalization, or dictionary base forms. The cited sources calibrate range and difficulty only; all learner-facing definitions, examples, quizzes, and descriptions are original KSSR copy.

Please note: the vocabulary lists for grades 9~11 have been selected to ensure no overlap with the previous grade level. If the words are too specialized or difficult for you, please go back to grade levels 4~8 and review the words on those pages.

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Words 106–140 of 800
#	Word	Details	Meaning	Sample sentence
106	polemic	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: polemic is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a forceful written or spoken attack on a belief or position	Her polemic condemns censorship but gives little space to opposing arguments.
107	eulogy	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: eulogy is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a speech or text praising a person who has died	The eulogy remembered the doctor through stories of quiet generosity.
108	jeremiad	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: jeremiad is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a long complaint warning that society is declining	The editorial becomes a jeremiad about the supposed loss of public manners.
109	epigram	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: epigram is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a brief, memorable, and often witty statement	The chapter ends with an epigram contrasting wealth with freedom.
110	juxtaposition	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ition commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.	placement of unlike things together to emphasize contrast or connection	The film's juxtaposition of celebration and ruin creates unease.
111	ambiguity	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition.	openness to more than one reasonable meaning	The final image preserves ambiguity about whether the traveler returns.
112	diglossia	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: diglossia is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	use of two language varieties for different social functions	In a diglossia, one variety may dominate formal writing while another guides conversation.
113	prosody	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: prosody is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	the rhythm, stress, and intonation patterns of speech or verse	The actor's prosody makes the same sentence sound sincere rather than sarcastic.
114	pragmatics	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: pragmatics is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	the study of how context shapes communicated meaning	Pragmatics explains why “Can you open the window?” usually functions as a request.
115	diegesis	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: diegesis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	the story world in which a narrative's events occur	Music from a character's radio belongs to the film's diegesis.
116	mimesis	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: mimesis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	artistic representation or imitation of life and action	The critic studies how the play's mimesis creates a believable courtroom.
117	sjuzhet	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: sjuzhet is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	the order and manner in which a narrative presents its events	The sjuzhet reveals the ending first and then returns to the cause.
118	homodiegetic narrator	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: homodiegetic + narrator. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a narrator who also participates as a character in the story	The homodiegetic narrator admits that he misunderstood the argument he witnessed.
119	heterodiegetic narrator	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: heterodiegetic + narrator. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a narrator who does not participate as a character in the story	A heterodiegetic narrator describes the family from outside its world.
120	extradiegetic narrator	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: extradiegetic + narrator. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a narrator positioned outside the primary level of the narrated story	The extradiegetic narrator introduces the traveler who will tell the inner tale.
121	intradiegetic narrator	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: intradiegetic + narrator. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a character who narrates a story within the main story	At the inn, an intradiegetic narrator recounts the shipwreck.
122	narratee	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: narratee is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	the person or audience addressed by a narrator within a narrative	Repeated appeals to “my dear sister” identify the letter's narratee.
123	implied author	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: implied + author. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the guiding authorial presence readers infer from a work as a whole	The implied author seems more skeptical than the confident narrator.
124	implied reader	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: implied + reader. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the imagined reader whose knowledge and values a text appears to assume	Unexplained legal terms suggest an implied reader familiar with court procedure.
125	narrative duration	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: narrative + duration. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the relationship between story time and the space devoted to telling it	A whole decade occupies one sentence, creating compressed narrative duration.
126	narrative frequency	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: narrative + frequency. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the relationship between how often events happen and how often they are narrated	The repeated account of one accident alters the novel's narrative frequency.
127	embedded narrative	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: embedded + narrative. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a story contained within another story	The sailor's journal forms an embedded narrative inside the detective plot.
128	historiographic metafiction	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: historiographic + metafiction. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	self-aware fiction that revisits history while questioning how history is written	The novel uses historiographic metafiction to expose gaps in the official archive.
129	psychological realism	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: psychological + realism. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	detailed representation of a character's complex inner life	Psychological realism makes the protagonist's changing loyalties feel credible.
130	regionalism	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -ism often names a belief, system, movement, or practice.	writing that emphasizes the speech, customs, and landscape of a particular region	The story's regionalism preserves coastal vocabulary and fishing traditions.
131	local color	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: local + color. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	distinctive details of place, dialect, custom, and daily life in writing	Descriptions of market calls and monsoon streets provide local color.
132	Southern Gothic	proper noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: Southern + Gothic. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a mode using grotesque or unsettling elements to examine the American South	The decaying estate in the Southern Gothic story conceals a history of exploitation.
133	climate fiction	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: climate + fiction. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	fiction centered on climate change and its social consequences	The climate fiction novel follows families displaced by rising seas.
134	creative nonfiction	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: creative + nonfiction. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	fact-based writing that uses literary techniques without inventing events	Her creative nonfiction combines verified interviews with vivid scene construction.
135	lyric essay	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: lyric + essay. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	an essay form using compressed, associative, and poetic movement	The lyric essay links fragments of memory through recurring images of water.
136	flash fiction	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: flash + fiction. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a complete fictional work written in very few words	The flash fiction story implies an entire separation through one unopened letter.
137	microfiction	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Suffix focus: -tion commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.	extremely brief fiction, often shorter than ordinary flash fiction	The microfiction creates a turning point in only three sentences.
138	hagiography	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Root and suffix focus: -graphy relates to writing, recording, or describing.	an idealized life account that avoids serious criticism of its subject	The biography becomes hagiography when it ignores every documented failure.
139	Künstlerroman	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: Künstlerroman is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a novel tracing an artist's development and creative identity	The Künstlerroman follows a violinist from imitation toward an original style.
140	roman à clef	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: roman + à + clef. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a novel whose fictional characters represent recognizable real people	Readers treated the roman à clef as a disguised account of the campaign.

Vocabulary reading and practice

Narrative Distance and Identity

Reading practice for pages 4–6. Five relevant words are highlighted.

English reading

A Künstlerroman traces an artist’s development, while a roman à clef disguises recognizable real people as fictional characters. Within the diegesis, an embedded narrative can challenge the main storyteller’s account. Pragmatics helps readers interpret what characters imply through context, social relationship, and tone rather than through literal wording alone.

Reading comprehension

1. What does a Künstlerroman trace?

It traces an artist's development.

2. What can an embedded narrative do?

It can challenge the main storyteller's account.

3. What does pragmatics help readers interpret?

It helps readers interpret implied meaning in context.

Vocabulary quiz

Complete 5 review questions for this page.

1. The ___ follows a violinist from imitation toward an original style.

Answer: Künstlerroman

2. ___ explains why “Can you open the window?” usually functions as a request.

Answer: pragmatics

3. The sailor's journal forms an ___ inside the detective plot.

Answer: embedded narrative

4. Readers treated the ___ as a disguised account of the campaign.

Answer: roman à clef

5. Music from a character's radio belongs to the film's ___.

Answer: diegesis

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