Vocabulary in Station Eleven

Freelance photographers who aggressively pursue celebrities to take candid pictures for sale to newspapers or magazines.

A style of newspaper or magazine focused on celebrity gossip, scandals, and sensational stories rather than serious news.

A young woman character in a play or film who is innocent, naive, and inexperienced, often a supporting romantic role.

A person who has been released from prison before completing their full sentence, on condition of good behaviour.

A group of people, vehicles, or wagons travelling together across open or dangerous territory for safety or companionship.

Describing the period of time after a widespread, deadly disease has swept through and largely ended, leaving a changed world behind.

The Traveling Symphony's motto, meaning that merely staying alive is not enough — art, culture, and beauty are also necessary for a fully human life.

The paved surface of an airport runway or apron where aircraft park and taxi, made of asphalt or a similar hard material.

A period of enforced isolation imposed on people or places to prevent the spread of a contagious disease.

An outbreak of an infectious disease that spreads rapidly across countries or the entire world, affecting enormous numbers of people.

Describing a disease or pathogen that spreads very quickly and causes severe, often fatal illness.

In this text, a self-proclaimed religious leader who claims divine authority and uses scripture to control and manipulate a community of followers.

A long-form comic book, bound like a book, that tells a complete narrative story through sequential illustrated panels and text.

A short story that uses fictional events or characters to teach a deeper moral or spiritual lesson.

In this text, the name given to an online community of people who feel disconnected from ordinary life, existing as if submerged beneath the surface of the real world.

A small, organised community of survivors who have established a permanent or semi-permanent place to live in the post-collapse world.

The sudden, total breakdown of modern civilisation — its governments, infrastructure, technology, and social order — caused by the Georgia Flu.

An armed group of ordinary citizens organised for defence or enforcement of order, not part of a professional national army.

A section of a narrative that pauses the main story to present a separate, self-contained episode or reflection.

To search through abandoned buildings, wreckage, or waste to find and collect useful items needed for survival.

A temporary or makeshift camp where a group of people live, often in tents or improvised shelters, without permanent structures.

The full collection of plays, musical pieces, or performances that a theatre company or musician is prepared and able to perform.

Sworn loyalty and allegiance owed to a leader or ruler, here used to describe the absolute obedience the Prophet demands from his followers.

A person who has abandoned or publicly rejected a religion or belief system they previously held, viewed as a traitor by those who remain.