7488938495 | ambiguous | unclear | 0 | |
7488939193 | scrupulous | thorough and careful | 1 | |
7488939857 | adorn | to decorate | 2 | |
7488940823 | camaraderie | goodwill among friends | 3 | |
7488941764 | specious | seemingly true but actually logically false | 4 | |
7488944749 | refute | to prove to be false | 5 | |
7488946152 | deleterious | harmful | 6 | |
7488947226 | heed | to pay close attention to | 7 | |
7488949567 | orthodox | commonly accepted; flowerly | 8 | |
7488951248 | construe | to interpret | 9 | |
7488955465 | elated | filled with delight | 10 | |
7488957131 | scorn | intense hatred or disrespect | 11 | |
7488958658 | temper | to soften or moderate | 12 | |
7488966076 | florid | elaborately or successfully ornamenated; flowery | 13 | |
7488970224 | garrulous | talkative | 14 | |
7488970841 | thwart | to stop or prevent | 15 | |
7488971908 | appease | to bring peace; quiet, or calm to | 16 | |
7488977906 | encompass | to include; contain | 17 | |
7488979256 | carnivorous | meat-eater | 18 | |
7488980102 | advocate | to speak in favor of; promote | 19 | |
7490156559 | caesura | a strong pause within line of verse | 20 | |
7495365540 | canto | major division of an epic poem | 21 | |
7495372698 | tonal shift | tone may shift throughout a work as the narrators perspective changes, or as the plot becomes more complex, dramatic, bizarre, etc. there also may be more than one tone that an author takes toward a work at the same time. for example, a novel can be both humorous and dark, or both sentimental and formal | 22 | |
7495403871 | hamartia | tragic flow; a detect in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings about his/her downfall | 23 | |
7495415152 | elegy | a lyric poem that laments the dead | 24 | |
7495419719 | epithet | a term used to point out a characteristic of a person | 25 | |
7495433588 | kennings | where the author would use a twist of words, figures of speech, or compound phrase to characterize a noun | 26 | |
7495445067 | eulogy | a formal speech praising a person who has died | 27 | |
7495449133 | epitah | an inscription on a tombstone or burial place | 28 | |
7495455025 | anagnorsis | in greek drama, a starting discover; moment of epiphany; time of revelation when a character discovers his true identity | 29 | |
7495472485 | tradegy | a type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse | 30 | |
7495483347 | tragic hero | a privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virture of a tragic fall and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering | 31 | |
7495501621 | archetype | original model or models for persons appearing later in history or characters appearing later in literature | 32 |
AP Literature chapter 1 Flashcards
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