AP Literature Vocab #3 Flashcards
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| 8204608571 | Omniscient Point of View | The boy rode home quickly fearing his mother would be angry. | 0 | |
| 8204622351 | Onomatopoeia | The nails screeched down the chalkboard | 1 | |
| 8204625195 | Oxymoron | Pretty ugly | 2 | |
| 8204627850 | Pastoral | Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats | 3 | |
| 8204634503 | Parable | The Boy Who Cried Wolf | 4 | |
| 8204639717 | Paradox | 1. I'm a compulsive liar. 2. I know one thing; that I know nothing | 5 | |
| 8204645606 | Parody | Monty Python's In Search of The Holy Grail | 6 | |
| 8204650793 | Parallel Structure | We must be firm, be fair, and be consistent. | 7 | |
| 8204670142 | Personification | Lightning danced across the night sky. | 8 | |
| 8204673126 | Point of View | First person, Second person, Third person | 9 | |
| 8204682475 | Precis | summary/synopsis of a text | 10 | |
| 8204687211 | Protagonist | Harry Potter, Dorothy, Katniss | 11 | |
| 8204691017 | Rhetorical Question | If you prick us, do we not bleed? | 12 | |
| 8204695400 | Rhetorical Techniques | Alliteration, Allusion, Hyperbole | 13 | |
| 8204698554 | Satire | A Modest Proposal, SNL Skits of Donald Trump | 14 | |
| 8204703675 | Setting | Verona in Romeo & Juliet, Hogwarts in Harry Potter | 15 | |
| 8204713054 | Simile | As American as apple pie. | 16 | |
| 8204718638 | Soliloquy | O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? | 17 | |
| 8204753464 | Stanza | group of 3 or more lines with same meter and rhyme scheme | 18 | |
| 8204760261 | Stereotype | Women are bad drivers | 19 |
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| 11291411564 | Forced Migration | Permanent movement compelled usually by cultural factors. | 0 | |
| 11291411565 | Suburbanization | A population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of urban sprawl | 1 | |
| 11291411566 | Asylum seeker | Someone who has migrated to another country in the hope of being recognized as a refugee | 2 | |
| 11291411567 | net migration | The difference between the level of immigration and the level of emigration. | 3 | |
| 11291411568 | Refugee | people who are forced to migrate from their home country and cannot return for fear of persecution because of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a social group, or political opinion | 4 | |
| 11291411569 | emigration | migration from a location | 5 | |
| 11291411570 | Intraregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. | 6 | |
| 11291411571 | intervening obstacle | Environmental or cultural feature of the landscape that hinders migration | 7 | |
| 11291411572 | International migration | Permanent movement from one country to another. | 8 | |
| 11291411573 | Pull factor | A factor that induces people to move to a new location | 9 | |
| 11291411574 | Interregional migration | Permanent movement within one region of a country. | 10 | |
| 11291411575 | Circulation | Short-term, repetitive, or cyclical movements that recur on a regular basis. | 11 | |
| 11291411576 | Gravity model | A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. | 12 | |
| 11291411577 | Push factor | a factor that induces people to leave old residences | 13 | |
| 11291411578 | Immigration | migration to a new location | 14 | |
| 11291411579 | Urbanization | An increase in the percentage of the number of people living in urban settlements | 15 | |
| 11291411580 | Chain migration | migration of people to a specific location because relatives or members of the same nationality previously migrated there | 16 | |
| 11291411581 | counterurbanization | Net migration from urban to rural areas in more developed countries. | 17 | |
| 11291411582 | Internal migration | Permanent movement within a particular country | 18 | |
| 11291411583 | Mobility | All types of movement between location | 19 | |
| 11291411584 | Guest worker | A term once used for a worker who migrated to the developed countries of Northern and Western Europe, usually from Southern and Eastern Europe or from North Africa, in search of a higher-paying job. | 20 | |
| 11291411585 | Distance decay function | The diminishing in importance and eventual disappearance of a phenomenon with increasing distance from its origin. | 21 | |
| 11291411586 | Brain drain | Large-scale emigration by talented people. | 22 | |
| 11291411587 | migration transition | Change in the migration pattern in a society that results from industrialization, population growth, and other social and economic changes that also produce the demographic transition. | 23 | |
| 11291411588 | Voluntary migration | Permanent movement undertaken by choice. | 24 |
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| 11232678992 | Nonplane | carpal, tarsal bones, gliding | 0 | |
| 11232678993 | Unihinge | elbow,knee joint, flexion and extension.Pivot joint | 1 | |
| 11232678994 | Bicondylar | saddle joint . Adduction and abduction . Phalanges, metacarpals | 2 | |
| 11232678995 | Multiball | shoulder and hip joint. flexion extension , addiction, abduction, rotation | 3 | |
| 11232728035 | Menisci | Lateral and medial, shock absorbers, made out of fibrocartilage | 4 | |
| 11232728036 | Diarthrodial | Full movement of shoulder | 5 | |
| 11232728037 | Amphisrthrodial | Some movement of intervertebral disc | 6 | |
| 11232740010 | Synarthrodial | immovable joints (sutures in skull) | 7 |
APES Flashcards
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| 10928958706 | species richness | # of species in a given area | 0 | |
| 10928962959 | species eveness | the relative proportion of individuals within the different species in a given area | 1 | |
| 10928973645 | phylogeny | the branching pattern of evolutionary relationships | 2 | |
| 10928986080 | evolution | a change in the genetic composition of a population over time | 3 | |
| 10928995416 | genotype | the complete set of genes in an individual | 4 | |
| 10929004253 | phenotype | a set of traits expressed by an individual | 5 | |
| 10929024297 | fitness | an individual ability to survive and reproduce | 6 | |
| 10929033045 | adaptations | a trait that improves an individuals fitness | 7 | |
| 10929041394 | genetic drift | a change in the genetic composition of a population over time as a result of random mating | 8 | |
| 10929045232 | bottleneck effect | a reduction in the genetic diversity of a population caused by a reduction in its size | 9 | |
| 10929050891 | founder effect | A change in the genetic composition of a population as a result of descending from a small number of colonizing individuals | 10 | |
| 10929060941 | geographic isolation | physical separation of a group of individuals from others of the same species | 11 | |
| 10929069095 | reproductive isolation | The result of two populations within a species evolving separately to the point that they can no longer interbreed and produce viable offspring | 12 | |
| 10929074910 | allopatric speciation | the process of speciation that occurs with geographic isolation | 13 | |
| 10929091565 | sympatric speciation | the evolution of one species into two, without geographic isolation | 14 | |
| 10929098674 | range of tolerance | the limits to the abiotic conditions that a species can tolerate | 15 | |
| 10929104689 | realized niche | the range of abiotic and biotic conditions under which a species can survive, grow and reproduce | 16 | |
| 10929135953 | distribution | areas of the world in which a species lives | 17 | |
| 10929138612 | generalist | a species that can live under a wide range of abiotic and biotic conditions | 18 | |
| 10929154340 | specialist | a species that is specialized to live in a specific habitat or to feed on a small group or species. | 19 | |
| 10929183671 | Mass Extinction Endangered | a large extinction of a species in a relatively short period of time. | 20 |
AP FRENCH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE - free response vocab and expressions Flashcards
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| 9728627540 | Veuillez agréer, Messieurs (or Monsieur ou Madame), mes salutations distinguées, | Sincerely, | 0 | |
| 9728627542 | J'ai bien reçu votre courriel (au sujet de / concernant) | I received your email (about / concerning) | 1 | |
| 9728627544 | Dans l'attente de votre réponse. | I await your response | 2 | |
| 9728627546 | Veuillez ... (+ inf) | Please ... | 3 | |
| 9728627548 | Commençons avec ... | Let's begin with... | 4 | |
| 9728627550 | Le premier argument (en faveur de / contre ), c'est que | The first argument (in favor of / against) is | 5 | |
| 9728888699 | à propos de / au sujet de | about | 6 | |
| 9728888700 | grâce à | thanks to | 7 | |
| 9728888701 | depuis | since | 8 | |
| 9728888702 | autrefois | in the past, former | 9 | |
| 9728888703 | il est évident que (+ indicatif) | it's obvious that | 10 | |
| 9728888704 | C'est dommage que (+ subjonctif) | it's a shame that | 11 | |
| 9728888705 | heureusement / malheureusement | fortunately / unfortunately | 12 | |
| 9728888706 | à cause de + noun | because of | 13 | |
| 9728888707 | de plus en plus | more and more | 14 | |
| 9728888708 | de moins en moins | less and less | 15 | |
| 9728888709 | y compris | including | 16 | |
| 9728888710 | sauf | except for | 17 | |
| 9728888711 | souvent / toujours / parfois | often / always / sometimes | 18 | |
| 9728888712 | d'un part et d'autre part | on one hand / on the other hand | 19 | |
| 9728888713 | En ce qui concerne + noun | as far as ____ is concerned | 20 | |
| 9728888714 | Pour souligner | to emphasize | 21 | |
| 9728888715 | Étant donné que (le fait que) | Given that ... (the fact that) | 22 | |
| 9728888716 | Dans (l'article, l'interview, le passage) il s'agit de... | The (article, interview, passage) is about ... | 23 | |
| 9728888717 | ____ est un sujet polémique | ___ is a controversial issue | 24 | |
| 9728888718 | à mon avis | In my opinion | 25 | |
| 9728888719 | Pour moi... / Quant à moi ... | As for me ... | 26 | |
| 9728888720 | Je (ne) suis (pas) d'accord que (avec) | I (don't) agree that (with) ... | 27 | |
| 9728888721 | Dans la source... (numéro 1,2,3) | In source (1,2,3) | 28 | |
| 9728888722 | La graphique nous montre / illustre / explique ... - | the visual shows us / illustrates / explains | 29 | |
| 9728888723 | à cause de | because of, due to | 30 | |
| 9728888724 | à l'avenir | in the future | 31 | |
| 9728888837 | Il faut que (+ subjonctif) | must | 32 | |
| 9728888725 | Ce qui est (frappant, surprennant, inquiêtant, intéressant, effrayant...) est que .. | What is (remarkable, surprising, worrisome, interesting, scary... ) is that ... | 33 | |
| 9728888726 | en conclusion | in conclusion | 34 | |
| 9728888727 | pour résumer | to summarize | 35 | |
| 9728888728 | en revanche / par contre | on the other hand, however | 36 | |
| 9728888729 | évidemment | obviously | 37 | |
| 9728888730 | la sensibilisation | awareness | 38 | |
| 9728888731 | Je discuterai / je parlerai de / je vous présenterai ... | I will discuss / talk about / present to you ... | 39 | |
| 9728888732 | Je vais diviser mes remarques (mes arguments) en deux parties. | Je will divide my comments (arguments) in two parts. | 40 | |
| 9728888733 | actuel(le) / actuellement | current / currently | 41 | |
| 9728888734 | le rapport entre ___ et ___ | the relationship between ___ and ___ | 42 | |
| 9728888735 | exprimer son opinion | to express his/her opinion | 43 | |
| 9728888736 | pour citer ... | to quote | 44 | |
| 9728888737 | La graphique (illustre, explique, démontre...) | The chart (illustrates, explains, shows ...) | 45 | |
| 9728888738 | souligner l'importance de | to stress, to emphasize, to highlight | 46 | |
| 9728888739 | par exemple | for example ... | 47 | |
| 9728888741 | En réponse à (Suite à) votre courriel ... | In response to your email... | 48 | |
| 9728888742 | Je vous écris pour vous informer/dire que... | I am writing to (inform you / tell you) that ... | 49 | |
| 9728888743 | Je vous suis très reconnaissant(e) de m'avoir dit /offert / écrit... | I'm grateful for having (told me, offered me, written to me) | 50 | |
| 9728888744 | J'ai le regret de vous informer que... | I'm sorry to inform you that ... | 51 | |
| 9728888745 | fournir | to provide | 52 | |
| 9728888746 | toute information complémentaire | any additional information | 53 | |
| 9728888747 | prendre rendez-vous (avec) | to meet / to have a meeting (with) | 54 | |
| 9728888748 | N'hésitez pas à me contacter ... | Please don't hesitate top contact me ... | 55 | |
| 9728888749 | Merci d'avance pour ... | Thank you in advance for ... | 56 | |
| 9728888750 | Je vous remercie ... | I thank you ... | 57 | |
| 9728888751 | assister | to attend.. | 58 | |
| 9728888752 | Je suis desolée mais.. | I'm sorry but... | 59 | |
| 9728888753 | J'ai des projets pour | I have plans for | 60 | |
| 9728888754 | déjà | already | 61 | |
| 9728888755 | Cela m'est égal | It makes no difference to m | 62 | |
| 9728888756 | Tu as raison | You are right | 63 | |
| 9728888757 | Vraiment? | Seriously? | 64 | |
| 9728888758 | As-tu pensé à...? | Have you thought of...? | 65 | |
| 9728888759 | Il vaut mieux que... | It's better that.. | 66 | |
| 9728888760 | Pourquoi tu ne considères pas...? | Why don't you consider...? | 67 | |
| 9728888761 | Que penserais-tu si...? | What would you think if...? | 68 | |
| 9728888762 | Il me semble que | It seems to me that... | 69 | |
| 9728888763 | Quel dommage! | What a pity! | 70 | |
| 9728888764 | Pour cette raison | for that reason | 71 | |
| 9728888765 | Ça me va! | That works for me! | 72 | |
| 9728888838 | Ça te dit de (+ inf ) | What do you think about ( ____ + ING) | 73 | |
| 9728888767 | avoir besoin de | to need | 74 | |
| 9728888768 | avoir envie de | to want | 75 | |
| 9728888769 | il est vrai que | it's true that | 76 | |
| 9728888770 | il est évident que | it's obvious that | 77 | |
| 9728888771 | à mon lycée | in my high school | 78 | |
| 9728888772 | dans ma communauté | in my community | 79 | |
| 9728888773 | un pays du tiers monde | a third world country | 80 | |
| 9728888774 | croissant(e) ≠ en baisse | growing ≠ decreasing | 81 | |
| 9728888775 | la plupart de | the majority of, most of | 82 | |
| 9728888776 | pire ≠ mieux | worse ≠ better | 83 | |
| 9728888777 | surtout | especially | 84 | |
| 9728888778 | de plus en plus ≠ de moins en moins | more and more ≠ less and less | 85 | |
| 9728888779 | soutenir | to support | 86 | |
| 9728888780 | On devrait ... | We should ... | 87 | |
| 9728888781 | On pourrait ... | We could ... | 88 | |
| 9728888782 | Pas de problème ! | No problem! | 89 | |
| 9728888783 | Avec plaisir ! | With pleasure! | 90 | |
| 9728888784 | Absolument ! | Absolutely! | 91 | |
| 9728888785 | Il est vrai que ... (+ indicatif) | It's true that ... | 92 | |
| 9728888786 | Ça m'est égal. | It doesn't matter to me. | 93 | |
| 9728888787 | Comme je t'ai dit... | Like I told you ... | 94 | |
| 9728888788 | Autant que je sache... | As far as I know ... | 95 | |
| 9728888789 | disponible | available | 96 | |
| 9728888790 | le lendemain | the next day | 97 | |
| 9728888791 | pluriculturel(elle) | multi-cultural | 98 | |
| 9728888792 | parmi | among | 99 | |
| 9728888793 | ne ... aucun(e) | none | 100 | |
| 9728888794 | ne ... que | only | 101 | |
| 9728888795 | subvenir aux besoins | to meet the needs, to support | 102 | |
| 9728888796 | la moitié | half | 103 | |
| 9728888797 | Ça vaut la peine de (+ inf) | It's worth it to | 104 | |
| 9728888798 | Je discuterai / Je parlerai de ... | I will discuss / I will talk about | 105 | |
| 9728888799 | Je vais diviser mes remarques (mes arguments) en deux parties ... | I will divide my remarks (arguments) in two parts | 106 | |
| 9728888800 | en ce qui concerne | about, concerning | 107 | |
| 9728888801 | au sujet de | about | 108 | |
| 9728888802 | célèbre / bien connu / renommé | famous / well-known | 109 | |
| 9728888839 | promouvoir to promote | 110 | ||
| 9728888803 | bénévole | charitable | 111 | |
| 9728888804 | menacer | to threaten | 112 | |
| 9728888805 | soigner | to treat, to care for | 113 | |
| 9728888806 | répandu(e) | widespread | 114 | |
| 9728888807 | croissant(e) | growing, increasingly | 115 | |
| 9728888808 | en ce qui concerne / au sujet de / sur | concerning, on the topic of, about | 116 | |
| 9728888809 | même si | even if | 117 | |
| 9728888810 | par contre | on the other hand | 118 | |
| 9728888811 | enfin | finally, at last | 119 | |
| 9728888812 | par rapport à | in relation to | 120 | |
| 9728888813 | le rapport (le lien) entre | the relationship ( link) between | 121 | |
| 9728888814 | ça (ne) vaut (pas) (les risques, la peine, le temps) | it's worth / it's not worth (the risk, the effort, the time) | 122 | |
| 9728888816 | les avantages et les inconvénients | advantages and disadvantages, the pros and cons | 123 | |
| 9728888817 | améliorer | to improve, to make better | 124 | |
| 9728888818 | Je suis d'accord avec / je suis du même avis que | I agree with | 125 | |
| 9728888819 | selon / d'après | according to | 126 | |
| 9728888820 | au lieu de | instead of, rather than | 127 | |
| 9728888821 | Étant donné le fait que ... | Given (the fact) that ... | 128 | |
| 9728888822 | le public | public, audience | 129 | |
| 9728888823 | le locuteur / la locutrice | speaker | 130 | |
| 9728888824 | les gens | people (always plural) | 131 | |
| 9728888825 | (poser une question) l'auteur nous pose la question | the author asks un the question | 132 | |
| 9728888826 | (mettre l'accent sur) l'auteur met l'accent sur | the author focuses on / emphasizes | 133 | |
| 9728888827 | (soutenir) l'auteur soutient | the author supports | 134 | |
| 9728888828 | (affirmer/constater) l'auteur affirme/constate que | the author claims/declares/states that | 135 | |
| 9728888829 | notamment | especially, particularly | 136 | |
| 9728888830 | la plupart (de) | most, the majority (of) | 137 | |
| 9728888831 | d'ailleurs | besides | 138 | |
| 9728888832 | plusieurs | several, some | 139 | |
| 9728888840 | un endroit | place | 140 | |
| 9728888834 | Je souhaite que | I wish/hope that | 141 | |
| 9728888835 | Je suggère que | I suggest that | 142 | |
| 9728888841 | J'espère que ( + FUTUR) | I hope that | 143 |
AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 9731032880 | absolute | a word free from limitations or qualifications (best, all, unique, perfect) | 0 | |
| 9731037100 | adage | a familiar proverb or wise saying | 1 | |
| 9731039617 | ad hominem argument | an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his/her position on an issue | 2 | |
| 9731045896 | allegory | a literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions (The conch representing order in the Lord of the Flies) | 3 | |
| 9731077712 | alliteration | the repitition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words | 4 | |
| 9731081565 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize (Biblical references) | 5 | |
| 9731091339 | analogy | a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 6 | |
| 9731094342 | anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 7 | |
| 9731097856 | anecdote | a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event | 8 | |
| 9731101354 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers | 9 | |
| 9731104983 | antithesis | a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced | 10 | |
| 9731108132 | aphorism | a concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance (Ignorance is bliss) | 11 | |
| 9731123000 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction (Macbeth speaking to the dagger before he uses it to kill King Duncan) | 12 | |
| 9731177169 | archetype | a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 13 | |
| 9731186493 | argument | a statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work | 14 | |
| 9731189821 | asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunction (I came, I saw, I conquered) | 15 | |
| 9731200786 | balanced sentence | a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast | 16 | |
| 9731203840 | bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing intended to evoke pity | 17 | |
| 9731209696 | chiasmus | a statement consisting of 2 parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed (Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary) | 18 | |
| 9731252398 | cliche | an expression that has been overused to the extent that its freshness has worn off | 19 | |
| 9731256018 | climax | the point of highest interest in a literary work | 20 | |
| 9731258041 | colloquialism | informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing | 21 | |
| 9731262160 | complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause | 22 | |
| 9731265961 | compound sentence | a sentence with 2+ coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions | 23 | |
| 9731277481 | conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor (in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo compares Juliet to a boat in a storm) | 24 | |
| 9731288977 | concrete details | details that relate to or describe actual, specific things or events | 25 | |
| 9731308137 | connotation | the implied or associative meaning of a word | 26 | |
| 9731311532 | cumulative sentence | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 27 | |
| 9731320692 | declarative sentence | a sentence that makes a statement or declaration | 28 | |
| 9731322751 | deductive reasoning | reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case | 29 | |
| 9731347718 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word | 30 | |
| 9731349954 | dialect | a variety of speech characterized by its own particular grammar or pronunciation, often associated with a particular geographic region | 31 | |
| 9731356417 | dialogue | conversation between two or more people | 32 | |
| 9731356418 | diction | the word choices made by a writer | 33 | |
| 9731361716 | didactic | having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing | 34 | |
| 9731361717 | dilemma | a situation that requires a person to decide between two equally attractive or equally unattractive alternatives | 35 | |
| 9731368670 | dissonance | harsh, inharmonious, or discordant words. | 36 | |
| 9731381647 | elegy | a formal poem presenting a meditation on death or another solemn theme | 37 | |
| 9731383823 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context (Some people prefer cats; others, dogs) | 38 | |
| 9731393605 | epic | a long narrative poem written in elevated style which presents the adventures of characters of high position and episodes that are important to the history of a race or nation | 39 | |
| 9731399763 | epigram | a brief, pithy, and often paradoxical saying (Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.) | 40 | |
| 9731423079 | epigraph | a saying or statement on the title page of a work, or used as a heading for a chapter or other section of a work | 41 | |
| 9731437489 | epiphany | a moment of sudden revelation or insight | 42 | |
| 9731439372 | epitaph | an inscription on a tombstone or burial place | 43 | |
| 9731441994 | epithet | a term used to point out a characteristic of a person (swift-footed Achilles, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) | 44 | |
| 9731448950 | eulogy | a formal speech praising a person who has died | 45 | |
| 9731462192 | euphemism | an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant | 46 | |
| 9731464820 | exclamatory sentence | a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark | 47 | |
| 9731471455 | expletive | an interjection to lend ephasis | 48 | |
| 9731473531 | fable | a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 49 | |
| 9731475769 | fantasy | a story that concerns an unreal world or contains unreal characters | 50 | |
| 9731480536 | figurative language | language employing one or more figures of speech | 51 | |
| 9731480658 | flashback | the insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative | 52 | |
| 9731484898 | flat character | a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story | 53 | |
| 9731490144 | foreshadowing | the presentation of material in such a way that the reader is prepared for what is to come later in the work | 54 | |
| 9731493744 | frame device | a story within a story (Canterbury Tales) | 55 | |
| 9731498802 | genre | a major category or type of literature | 56 | |
| 9731501004 | homily | a sermon, or a moralistic lecture | 57 | |
| 9731502843 | hubris | excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy | 58 | |
| 9731506176 | hyperbole | intentional exaggeration to create an effect | 59 | |
| 9731508489 | hypothetical question | a question that raises a hypothesis, conjecture, or supposition | 60 | |
| 9731514717 | idiom | an expression in a given language that cannot be understood from the literal meaning of the words in the expression; or, a regional speech or dialect | 61 | |
| 9731565042 | imagery | the use of figures of speech to create vivid images that appeal to one of the senses | 62 | |
| 9731568795 | implication | a suggestion an author or speaker makes without stating it directly | 63 | |
| 9731571327 | inductive reasoning | deriving general principles from particular facts or instances | 64 | |
| 9731574331 | inference | a conclusion one draws based on premises or evidence | 65 | |
| 9731577548 | invective | an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack | 66 | |
| 9731580889 | irony | the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; or, incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs | 67 | |
| 9733570815 | jargon | the specialized language or vocabulary of a particular group or profession | 68 | |
| 9733572342 | juxtaposition | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 69 | |
| 9733574608 | legend | a narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements | 70 | |
| 9733576465 | limerick | light verse consisting of five lines of regular rhythm in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme, and the second and third lines rhyme | 71 | |
| 9733605735 | limited narrator | a narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character and restricts information to what is seen, heard, thought, or felt by that one character | 72 | |
| 9733610075 | literary license | deviating from normal rules or methods in order to achieve a certain effect | 73 | |
| 9733613055 | litotes | a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite (describing a horrific scene as "not a pretty picture) | 74 | |
| 9733687497 | malapropism | the mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar ("The doctor wrote a subscription") | 75 | |
| 9733697523 | maxim | a concise statement, often offering advice | 76 | |
| 9733697525 | metaphor | a direct comparison of two different things | 77 | |
| 9733700533 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it (the pen [writing] is mightier than the sword [war]) | 78 | |
| 9733712471 | mood | the emotional atmosphere of a work | 79 | |
| 9733712472 | motif | a standard theme, element, or dramatic situation that recurs in various works | 80 | |
| 9733720245 | motivation | a character's incentive or reason for behaving in a certain manner; that which impels a character to act | 81 | |
| 9733723788 | myth | a traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events | 82 | |
| 9733726279 | narrative | a story or narrated account | 83 | |
| 9733727892 | narrator | the one who tells the story | 84 | |
| 9733779550 | non sequitur | an inference that does not follow logically from the premises | 85 | |
| 9733781548 | omniscient narrator | a narrator who is able to know, see, and tell all, including the inner thoughts and feelings of the characters | 86 | |
| 9733784150 | onomatopoeia | a word formed from the imitation of natural sounds | 87 | |
| 9733786348 | oxymoron | an expression in which two words that contradict each other are joined | 88 | |
| 9733789132 | parable | a simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson | 89 | |
| 9733791291 | paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth | 90 | |
| 9733792831 | parallelism | the use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms | 91 | |
| 9733794408 | paraphrase | a restatement of a text in a different form or in different words, often for the purpose of clarity | 92 | |
| 9733797517 | parody | a humorous imitation of a serious work | 93 | |
| 9733798815 | parenthetical | a comment that interrupts the immediate subject, often to qualify or explain | 94 | |
| 9733800700 | pathos | the quality in a work that prompts the reader to feel pity | 95 | |
| 9733801873 | pedantic | characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship | 96 | |
| 9733805309 | personification | endowing non-human objects or creatures with human qualities or characteristics | 97 | |
| 9733807615 | phillipic | a strong verbal denunciation | 98 | |
| 9733809284 | plot | the action of a narrative or drama | 99 | |
| 9733811869 | point of view | the vantage point from which a story is told | 100 | |
| 9733813448 | polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural (The boy ran over the grass and jumped over the grass and jumped over the puddle and skipped through the yard.) | 101 | |
| 9733816103 | pun | a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings | 102 | |
| 9733819664 | resolution | the falling action of a narrative; the events following the climax | 103 | |
| 9733907540 | rhetoric | the art of presenting ideas in a clear, effective, and persuasive manner | 104 | |
| 9733910151 | rhetorical question | a question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer | 105 | |
| 9733912651 | rhetorical devices | literary techniques used to heighten the effectiveness of expression | 106 | |
| 9733915802 | riddle | a question requiring thought to answer or understand | 107 | |
| 9733918289 | romantic | a term describing a character or literary work that reflects the characteristics of Romanticism, the literary movement beginning in the late 18th century that stressed emotion, imagination, and individualism | 108 | |
| 9733928408 | round character | a character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 109 | |
| 9733932442 | sarcasm | harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule | 110 | |
| 9733937401 | satire | the use of humor to emphasize human weaknesses or imperfections in social institutions | 111 | |
| 9733940221 | scapegoat | a person or group that bears the blame for another | 112 | |
| 9733941937 | scene | a real or fictional episode; a division of an act in a play | 113 | |
| 9733944133 | setting | the time, place, and environment in which action takes place | 114 | |
| 9733944146 | simile | a comparison of two things using "like", "as", or other specifically comparative words | 115 | |
| 9733947695 | simple sentence | a sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause | 116 | |
| 9733951325 | solecism | nonstandard grammatical usage, a violation of grammatical rules (in Romeo and Juliet: Or shall we on without a apology?) | 117 | |
| 9733962155 | structure | the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work | 118 | |
| 9733964969 | style | the choices a writer makes, the combination of distinctive features of a literary work | 119 | |
| 9733967452 | surrealism | an artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and characterized by incongruous juxtapositions and lack of conscious control | 120 | |
| 9733971574 | syllepsis | a construction in which one word is used in two different senses (After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.) | 121 | |
| 9735685601 | syllogism | a three-part deductive argument in which a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise (All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal.) | 122 | |
| 9735716197 | symbol | an object that is used to represent something else | 123 | |
| 9735718157 | synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object (calling a car "wheels") | 124 | |
| 9735724391 | synesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another (a sweet sound, a loud color) | 125 | |
| 9735730975 | syntax | the manner in which words are arranged into sentences | 126 | |
| 9735733800 | tautology | needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding (free gift, widow woman) | 127 | |
| 9735738430 | theme | a central idea of a work | 128 | |
| 9735738460 | thesis | the primary position taken by a writer or speaker | 129 | |
| 9735741141 | tone | the attitude of a writer, usually implied, toward the subject or audience | 130 | |
| 9735743376 | topic | the subject treated in a paragraph or work | 131 | |
| 9735745545 | tragedy | a work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree, is engaged in a significant struggle and which ends in ruin or destruction | 132 | |
| 9735750195 | trilogy | a work in three parts, each of which is a complete work in itself | 133 | |
| 9735752697 | trite | overused and hackneyed | 134 | |
| 9735756053 | turning point | the point in a work in which a very significant change occurs | 135 | |
| 9735757844 | understatement | the deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is; a deliberate under-emphasis | 136 | |
| 9735762118 | usage | the customary way language or its elements are used | 137 | |
| 9735764556 | vernacular | the everyday speech of a particular country or region, often involving nonstandard usage | 138 | |
| 9878363899 | Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet | a sonnet containing an octave (8 lines) and a sestet (7 lines) | 139 | |
| 9878390875 | Shakespearean Sonnet | a sonnet containing 3 quatrains (4 lines) and a couplet (2 lines) | 140 | |
| 9878402279 | Dramatic Monologue | a poem in the form of a speech or narrative by an imagined person, in which the speaker inadvertently reveals aspects of their character while describing a particular situation or series of events. | 141 |
AP WORLD HISTORY: Chapter 10 Flashcards
The Worlds of European Christendom: Connected and Divided, 500-1300
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| 3864887967 | Christendom | (1) christianity provided common ground for postclassical societies in western Eurasia (2) deeply divided; Byzantine Empire and West | 0 | |
| 3864895993 | Major differences | (1) Roman Catholic Church established independence from political authories; eastern orthodox did not (2) Western was more rural than Byzantium (3) Western empire collapsed in 5th century; Eastern half survived another 1000 years (4) Western half led by the pope; Eastern by the Emperor and Patriarch | 1 | |
| 3864901403 | Eastern Christendom / Byzantium | (1) viewed as a continuation of the Roman Empire (2) began with the founding of Constantinople (3) conscious effort to preserve Roman ways (4) increasingly defined itself in opposition to Latin Christianity Advantages (1) wealthier and urbanized (2) defensible capital (3) access to the Black Sea; command of eastern Mediterranean (4) strong military (5) continuation of late Roman infrastructure State (1) much smaller than the Roman Empire (2) political authority tightly centralized in Constantinople (3) emperor; court (4) concerned with tax collection and keeping order (5) territory shrank after attacks from western europe; empire ends with conquering by Ottoman Turks Influence of Orthodox Christianity (1) legitimated imperial rule (2) provided cultural identity (3) engaged common people in theological disputes Byzantium and the World (1) continuation of long Roman fight with the Persian Empire (2) central player in long-distance trade (3) transmission of orthodox Christianity to Balkans and Russia | 2 | |
| 3864922505 | caeraropapism | church connected closely to the state (1) byzantine emperor was head of both the state and the Church (2) emperor appointed the patriarch, made doctrinal decisions, called church councils | 3 | |
| 3864953180 | Conversion of Russia | (1) Prince Vladimir of Kiev (2) sought to convert to a religion; chose orthodoxy (3) orthodoxy transformed the state of Rus; became the central identity (4) Moscow assumed the role of protector of Christianity after the fall of Constantinople | 4 | |
| 3864934343 | Divided Christendom | (1) sense of religious differences reflected political difference (2) different language, philosophy, theology, church practice (3) mutual excommunication (4) crusades worsened the situation | 5 | |
| 3864963394 | Western Christendom | (1) far removed from the growing world trade routes (2) geography made political unity difficult Following the fall of Western Rome (1) large-scale centralized rule vanished (2) population fell (3) diminution of urban life (4) Germanic peoples emerged as the dominant peoples in the West (5) shift in center of gravity from Mediterranean to north and west Survival of Roman Culture (1) Germanic peoples who established new kingdoms had been substantially Romanized already (2) high prestige of things Roman (3) adopted Roman-style written law (4) Charlemagne tried to recreate Roman-style unity; acted imperial Society and the Church (1) kingdoms were highly fragmented and decentralized; great local variation (2) social hierarchy modeled on that of the Roman Empire (3) lords, knights, serfs, etc (4) conversion of Europe's non-Christians (5) church and ruling class usually reinforced each other | 6 | |
| 3864989797 | High Middle Ages (western) | time of clear growth and expansion (1) following the conclusion of invasions from Muslims, Magyars, and Vikings (2) growth of long distance trade (3) population increase (4) new specializations; organized into guilds opportunities for women (1) number of urban professions (2) opportunities declined by the 15th century (3) religious life as nuns or anchoresses growth of state (1) territorial states with better organized governments (2) kings consolidated their authority (3) appearance of professional administrators | 7 | |
| 3865004033 | The Cruscades | (1) began in 1095 at god's command; authorized by the Pope (2) series of religious wars (3) some aimed to regain Jerusalem and holy places (4) little lasting political or religious impact in the Middle East Impact on Europe (1) conquest of Spain, Sicily, Baltic region (2) weakened Byzantium (3) popes strengthened their position | 8 | |
| 3865017087 | Development of Western Europe | (1) exchanged and borrowed from more advanced civilizations to the east; especially China (2) innovation in agriculture, energy, warfare (3) Crystallized into a system of competing states (4) development of representative institutions (parliaments) | 9 | |
| 3865023913 | Reason and Faith in Western Europe | (1) distinctive tension between faith and reason developed (2) intellectual life flourished after 1000 (3) in universities, scholars began to emphasize the ability of human reason to understand divine mysteries (4) development of natural philosophy, the scientific study of nature (5) search for classical greek texts; especially aristotle | 10 | |
| 3865031126 | Impact of Aristotle | (1) writings were the basis of university education (2) dominated Western European thought between 1200 and 1700 | 11 | |
| 3865034469 | Reason and Faith in Byzantine | (1) no similar development occurred (2) focus of education was the humanities (3) suspicion of classical Greek thought | 12 |
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