4885357255 | Eminent | Standing out so as ready to be readily perceived or noted, conspicuous, famous within a profession | 0 | |
4885371496 | Imminent | Likely to occur at any moment, impending | 1 | |
4885375932 | Evocation | Calling forth, bringing out, elicit | 2 | |
6623932892 | Debacle | Sudden downfall, collapse | 3 | |
6623936803 | Churlish | Rude, selfish, or mean person | 4 | |
6623945634 | Aberration | A deviation from what is right, abnormal | 5 | |
6623948712 | Inimitable | Impossible to copy, unique | 6 | |
6623952513 | Credulous | Ready to believe, especially on certain evidence, gullible, naive | 7 | |
6623957348 | Usurped | To take over, to seize or use something without authority | 8 | |
6623962927 | Unprecedented | Never done before , never known before | 9 | |
6623966675 | False Analogy | When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them | 10 | |
6623982330 | Figurative Language | Language that contains figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors, in order to create associations that are imaginative than literal | 11 | |
6623995062 | Figures of Speech | Expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations | 12 | |
6624006244 | Foreshadowing | The use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs late in the work | 13 | |
6624025864 | Freight-Train | Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions | 14 | |
6624031247 | Generalization | When a writer bases a claim upon an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable | 15 | |
6624056568 | Genre | A type of literary work, such as a novel or poem | 16 | |
6624062641 | Hubris | The excessive pride of ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impending doo, eventually causing his or her downfall | 17 | |
6633694128 | Humor | Anything that causes laughter | 18 | |
6633715757 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis (he was so hungry he could have eaten a horse) | 19 | |
6633724164 | Image | a word or words, either figurative or literal, used to describe a sensory experience or an object perceived by the sense. | 20 | |
6633747013 | Imagery | words or word phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture | 21 | |
6633761462 | Induction | the process that moves from a given specifics to a generalization | 22 | |
6633768967 | Inference | a conclusion one can draw from the from the presented details | 23 | |
6633776108 | Interior Monologue | writing that records the conversion that occurs inside a character's head | 24 | |
6633784882 | Invective | a verbally abusive attack | 25 | |
6633786628 | Inversion | reversing the customary (subject first, then verb, then compliment) order of elements in sentence or phrase; Often phrased as a question: "Are you going to the store?" | 26 | |
6633814008 | Irony | a situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what is expected | 27 | |
6633826653 | Jargon | the special language of a profession or group; like the writings of a lawyer and the literary critic. | 28 | |
6633836262 | Logic | the process of reasoning | 29 |
AP Language Vocabulary #3 Flashcards
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