2820575647 | Amiable | Having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities, friendly, sociable | 0 | |
2820575648 | Elevated | Elated or joyful, showing a joyful personality | 1 | |
2820575649 | Sprightly | Animated, vivacious, or gay; lively | 2 | |
2820575650 | Contented | Feeling or showing satisfaction with one's possessions, status, or situation | 3 | |
2820575651 | Exuberant | Very lively, happy, or energetic: filled with energy and enthusiasm | 4 | |
2820575652 | Jubilant | Feeling or expressing great joy: very happy | 5 | |
2820575653 | Allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself | 6 | |
2820575654 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds | 7 | |
2820575655 | Anachronism | Something out of its normal fime | 8 | |
2820575656 | Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word or phrase from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next. Often combined with climax | 9 | |
2864818627 | enraptured | Delight beyond measure | 10 | |
2864820047 | Whimsical | Given to fanciful notions; erratic and unpredictable | 11 | |
2864821585 | Accomodating | Fitting in with someone's wishes or demands; obliging; easy to deal with | 12 | |
2864823648 | Cordial | Welcoming, warm and friendly | 13 | |
2864824567 | Indulgent | Permissive; easygoing; tolerant | 14 | |
2864827915 | Solicitous | Characterized by showing concern, considerate | 15 | |
2864829387 | Gracious | Courteous, kind, and pleasant | 16 | |
2864831977 | Analogy | Illustration of an idea by means of a more familiar idea that is similar or parallel to it | 17 | |
2864835535 | Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses or paragraphs | 18 | |
2864839564 | Anastrophe | Word order is reversed or rearranged | 19 | |
2864840715 | Antagonist | The character of force with creates conflict for the protagonist in a narratic | 20 | |
2864843245 | Antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by the strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences or ideas | 21 | |
2864918101 | Allusion | The mention of a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 22 | |
2879933907 | Ardent | Enthusiastic or passionate, fervent or fiery | 23 | |
2879935303 | Feverish | Filled with excess energy, Marked by intense agitation, emotion or activity | 24 | |
2879936919 | Earnest | Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction; serious; solemn; humorless | 25 | |
2879939981 | Rapturous | Characterized by, feeling, or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm; ecstatic; joyful | 26 | |
2879943503 | Impassioned | Filled with or showing great emotion; emotional; heartfelt; earnest; sincere | 27 | |
2879946060 | Vigorous | Strong, healthy, and full or energy | 28 | |
2879948241 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an inanimate object or an absent or a personified quality | 29 | |
2879957470 | Archetype | A term applied to an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature | 30 | |
2879961292 | Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds filled by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables | 31 | |
2879965285 | Asyndeton | Occurs when the conjunctions that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence | 32 | |
2879973348 | Bathos | Fake or forced emotion that is often humorous | 33 | |
2941817776 | Blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 34 | |
2941820778 | Catharsis | A moral and spiritual cleansing; an empathetic identification with others | 35 | |
2941823465 | Characterization | The act of creating and developing a character | 36 | |
2941824227 | Chiasmus | Grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words | 37 | |
2941827802 | Climax | The highest point of tension; a turning point in a literary work | 38 | |
2941829717 | Amorous | Strongly moved by love | 39 | |
2941830472 | Sensual | Arousing pleasure of the senses | 40 | |
2941832225 | Erotic | Arousing desire or excitement (relating to sex) | 41 | |
2941834746 | Fanciful | Showing imagination | 42 | |
2941835953 | Meditative | Absorbed in meditation or considered thought | 43 | |
2941838254 | Serene | Calm, peaceful, and untroubled | 44 | |
3031253966 | Admonitory | Giving or conveying a warning or reprimand | 45 | |
3031256245 | Frank | Direct and unreserved in speech | 46 | |
3031257990 | Preoccupied | Completely engrossed in a thought other than those that should be a focus | 47 | |
3031262505 | Incredulous | Disinclined or indisposed to believe | 48 | |
3031264122 | Oracular | Prophetic but alsonconfusing | 49 | |
3031266935 | Unequivocal | Indisputable, clear, having only one possible meaning | 50 | |
3031270226 | Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter | 51 | |
3031273714 | Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word | 52 | |
3031275573 | Dialect | The form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group | 53 | |
3031278349 | Dialogue | A conversation between two characters | 54 | |
3031279804 | Diction | Word choice | 55 | |
3087981765 | Candid | Truthful and straight forward, frank, blunt, not rehearsed | 56 | |
3087982832 | Didactic | Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive, in the manner of a teacher | 57 | |
3087986158 | Indignant | Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment | 58 | |
3087987623 | Probing | Seeking to uncover information about someone or something | 59 | |
3087988491 | Studied | Knowledgeable | 60 | |
3087989347 | Insinuating | To suggest or hint in an indirect and unpleasant way, suggesting, hinting | 61 | |
3087991321 | Direct characterizating | Direct statement by the author of a character's traits | 62 | |
3087992209 | Dramatic irony | A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true | 63 | |
3087993806 | Dramatic monologue | A narrative poem in which one character speaks of one or more others who do not reply. The one character's speech will reveal all the elements of a story | 64 | |
3087997961 | Epanalepsis | Repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter. More strictly, repetition at the end of a line, phrase, or clause | 65 | |
3088001325 | Epic | A long narrative poem about a central hero who embodies the values of a particularly society | 66 | |
3087984580 | Pensive | Engages in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought, dreamily thoughtful | 67 | |
3228733190 | solemn | formal and dignified; not cheerful or smiling | 68 | |
3228736084 | wary | feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems; watchful | 69 | |
3228740348 | temperate | showing moderation or self-restraint | 70 | |
3228744810 | imperturbable | unable to be upset or excited | 71 | |
3228760707 | prudent | acting with or showing care and thought for the future | 72 | |
3228763946 | nonchalant | feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed | 73 | |
3228775122 | epiphany | A sudden understanding or realization which prior to this time was not thought of or understood | 74 | |
3228784197 | epistrophe | Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentence with the same word or words | 75 | |
3228788696 | ethos | The character of the speaker or writers as reflected in speech or writing | 76 | |
3228820140 | euphemism | A device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid unpleasantness | 77 | |
3228823853 | exposition | In the plot of a story or drama, it is the part of the work that includes the characters, the setting, and the basic situation | 78 | |
3260520961 | Blasé | Unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before | 79 | |
3260524280 | Dry | Bare or lacking adornment | 80 | |
3260526666 | Stoical | Enduring pain and hardship without showing one's feelings or complaining | 81 | |
3260529323 | Languid | Weak or faint from illness or fatigue; slow and relaxed | 82 | |
3260532398 | Vacant | Having or showing no intelligent or interest | 83 | |
3260537295 | Resigned | Having accepted something unpleasant that one can not do anything about | 84 | |
3260541161 | Expository essay | An essay which gives information, discusses ideas, or explains a process | 85 | |
3260548147 | Flashback | A section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate and event from an earlier time | 86 | |
3260559994 | Flat character | A character to whom the author has give only one or two personality traits | 87 | |
3260563253 | Foil | A character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of the protagonist or of some other character by providing a strong contrast | 88 | |
3260568533 | Foreshadowing | The use in a literary work of clues that suggests events that have yet to occur | 89 |
AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards
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