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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.

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Words 141–175 of 800
#	Word	Details	Meaning	Sample sentence
141	closet drama	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: closet + drama. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a play written mainly to be read rather than performed	The closet drama uses scenes too vast for an ordinary stage.
142	comedy of manners	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: comedy + of + manners. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a comedy satirizing social rules and behavior within a refined group	The comedy of manners exposes hypocrisy through elegant dinner conversation.
143	revenge tragedy	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: revenge + tragedy. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a drama driven by a character's attempt to avenge a serious wrong	In the revenge tragedy, each act of vengeance creates another victim.
144	tragicomedy	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: tragicomedy is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a work combining serious danger with comic elements or a nontragic ending	The tragicomedy moves from a threatened execution to an awkward reunion.
145	melodrama	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: melodrama is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a drama using heightened emotion, clear moral conflict, and sensational events	The rescue scene becomes melodrama when the villain announces every cruel intention.
146	addressee	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: addressee is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	the person or group to whom speech or writing is directed	The poem's addressee is an absent friend who never answers.
147	masculine rhyme	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: masculine + rhyme. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	rhyme on stressed final syllables	“Defend” and “amend” create a masculine rhyme.
148	feminine rhyme	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: feminine + rhyme. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	rhyme involving a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable	“Duty” and “beauty” form a feminine rhyme.
149	metrical foot	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: metrical + foot. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a repeated unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse	The line's metrical foot alternates an unstressed syllable with a stressed one.
150	tetrameter	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: tetrameter is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a poetic line containing four metrical feet	The ballad's tetrameter gives each long line four strong beats.
151	trimeter	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: trimeter is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a poetic line containing three metrical feet	The shorter trimeter line quickens the stanza.
152	hexameter	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: hexameter is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a poetic line containing six metrical feet	The epic's hexameter gives the narration a broad, formal rhythm.
153	alexandrine	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: alexandrine is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a twelve-syllable poetic line, commonly divided into two balanced halves	The closing alexandrine slows the poem with a central pause.
154	accentual verse	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: accentual + verse. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	verse organized by a fixed number of stresses rather than syllables	The accentual verse keeps four beats even when line length changes.
155	syllabic verse	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: syllabic + verse. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	verse organized by syllable count without a fixed stress pattern	Each line of the syllabic verse contains exactly seven syllables.
156	accentual-syllabic verse	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: accentual + syllabic + verse. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	verse organized by both syllable count and recurring stress patterns	The sonnet's accentual-syllabic verse follows a regular sequence of ten syllables.
157	nonce form	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: nonce + form. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a poetic form invented for a particular work rather than inherited from tradition	The poet created a nonce form with nine lines and an original rhyme pattern.
158	prosopopoeia	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: prosopopoeia is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a figure in which an absent, dead, or nonhuman thing is given a voice	Through prosopopoeia, the ruined city addresses its former residents.
159	aposiopesis	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: aposiopesis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a sudden breaking off of speech before a thought is completed	The dash marks aposiopesis when the witness cannot finish the threat.
160	polyptoton	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: polyptoton is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	repetition of words derived from the same root in different forms	“The judge must judge justly” uses polyptoton.
161	isocolon	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: isocolon is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a sequence of clauses with parallel length and structure	The slogan's isocolon balances “we came to learn” with “we stayed to serve.”
162	parataxis	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: parataxis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	placement of clauses side by side with little subordination	Parataxis gives the passage a blunt rhythm: “Rain fell. Roads closed. We waited.”
163	hypotaxis	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: hypotaxis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	arrangement of ideas through dependent and subordinate clauses	Hypotaxis lets the sentence distinguish causes, conditions, and consequences.
164	appositive	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: appositive is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a noun or noun phrase that renames a nearby noun	In “Mae Jemison, an engineer and astronaut, spoke,” the appositive adds information.
165	syntactic inversion	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: syntactic + inversion. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	reversal of ordinary word order for emphasis or rhythm	“Into the harbor sailed the ship” uses syntactic inversion.
166	paralipsis	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: paralipsis is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	emphasis created by claiming not to mention a subject	“I will not discuss his three missed deadlines” is paralipsis.
167	discourse community	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: discourse + community. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a group sharing communication practices, goals, and specialized language	Medical researchers form a discourse community with established genres and terms.
168	presupposition	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.	information a statement treats as already accepted or true	“She stopped commuting” carries the presupposition that she once commuted.
169	implicature	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: implicature is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	meaning suggested by context rather than directly stated	“Some essays were clear” may carry the implicature that others were not.
170	corpus linguistics	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: corpus + linguistics. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	study of language through large, organized collections of real usage	Corpus linguistics showed that the phrase became common after 1990.
171	lingua franca	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Term structure: lingua + franca. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a shared language used among speakers with different first languages	Swahili serves as a lingua franca across several East African communities.
172	pidgin	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: pidgin is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a contact language with simplified structures developed for communication between groups	A trade pidgin emerged among sailors who lacked a common language.
173	creole	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: creole is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a stable natural language that develops from sustained language contact	Children acquired the creole as a complete first language.
174	etymon	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: etymon is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	an earlier word or form from which a later word develops	The Latin etymon helps explain the English word's spelling.
175	loanword	noun Study Field: Grade 11 literature, rhetoric, and language term Word study: Base-form focus: loanword is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a word adopted from another language with limited translation	“Piano” entered English as a loanword from Italian.

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1. The epic's ___ gives the narration a broad, formal rhythm.

Answer: hexameter

2. “Into the harbor sailed the ship” uses ___.

Answer: syntactic inversion

3. The closing ___ slows the poem with a central pause.

Answer: alexandrine

4. “I will not discuss his three missed deadlines” is ___.

Answer: paralipsis

5. The ___ uses scenes too vast for an ordinary stage.

Answer: closet drama

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