North Fork AP Literature vocabulary
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| 2683315385 | physiognomy | The art of judging human character from facial features | 0 | |
| 2683315386 | capacious | large in capacity | 1 | |
| 2683315387 | hastened | speed up the progress of | 2 | |
| 2683315388 | satiate | fill to satisfaction | 3 | |
| 2683315389 | enticement | To attract by arousing hope or desire; lure | 4 | |
| 2683315390 | laborious | characterized by toilsome effort to the point of exhaustion | 5 | |
| 2683315391 | prognosticate | make a prediction about | 6 | |
| 2683315392 | annihilation | total destruction | 7 | |
| 2683315393 | diligence | conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task | 8 | |
| 2683315394 | incredulous | not disposed or willing to believe | 9 | |
| 2683315395 | reprobate | a person without moral scruples | 10 | |
| 2683315396 | panegyric | Elaborate praise or laudation; a formal expression of praise | 11 | |
| 2683315397 | exculpate | pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | 12 | |
| 2683315398 | obdurate | showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing | 13 | |
| 2683315399 | predilection | a predisposition in favor of something | 14 | |
| 2683315400 | apathy | the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | 15 | |
| 2683315401 | phraseology | 1. The way in which words and phrases are used in speech or writing; style. 2. A set of expressions used by a particular person or group: nautical phraseology. | 16 | |
| 2683315402 | virtuous | behaving according to standards of what is right or just | 17 | |
| 2683315403 | perambulate | 1. To walk through. 2. To inspect (an area) on foot | 18 | |
| 2683315404 | salubrious | promoting health | 19 | |
| 2683315405 | fortnight | a period of fourteen consecutive days | 20 | |
| 2683315406 | paroxysm | a sudden uncontrollable attack | 21 | |
| 2683315407 | enigmatic | not clear; hidden meaning | 22 | |
| 2683315408 | inestimable | beyond calculation or measure | 23 | |
| 2683315409 | allegory | A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning. In written narrative _____ involves a continuous parallel between two (or more) levels of meaning in a story so that its persons and events correspond to their equivalents in a system of ideas or a chain of events external to the tale. | 24 | |
| 2683315410 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds | 25 | |
| 2683315411 | allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. | 26 | |
| 2683315412 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences | 27 | |
| 2683315413 | anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 28 | |
| 2683315414 | antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character | 29 | |
| 2683315415 | antithesis | ..., the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance. e.g. -- "to err is human, to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) | 30 | |
| 2683315416 | apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. | 31 | |
| 2683315417 | archetype | A term borrowed by psychologist Carl Jung who described archetypes as "primordial images" formed by repeated experiences in the lives of our ancestors, inherited in the "collective unconscious" of the human race and expressed in myths, religion, dreams, fantasies, and literature. These "images" of character, plot pattern, symbols recur in literature and evoke profound emotional responses in the reader because they resonate with an image already existing in our unconscious mind, e.g. death, rebirth. | 32 | |
| 2683315418 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 33 | |
| 2683315419 | asyndeton | Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words. The parts are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z. e.g. Caesar's "I came, I saw, I conquered." | 34 | |
| 2683315420 | connotation | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests | 35 | |
| 2683315421 | consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 36 | |
| 2683315422 | heroic couplet | Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 37 | |
| 2683315423 | couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. | 38 | |
| 2683315424 | dactylic | A foot in poetry with one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. / U U | 39 | |
| 2683315425 | denotation | Dictionary definition | 40 | |
| 2683315426 | dialect | A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation. | 41 | |
| 2683315427 | diction | An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect. | 42 | |
| 2683315428 | dramatic monologue | A poem in which a poetic speaker addresses either the reader or an internal listener at length. It is similar to the soliloquy in theater, in that both a dramatic monologue and a soliloquy often involve the revelation of the innermost thoughts and feelings of the speaker. | 43 | |
| 2683315429 | elegy | A formal sustained poem lamenting the death of a particular person, usually ending in consolation | 44 | |
| 2683315430 | enjambment | A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next. An enjambed line differs from an end-stopped line in which the grammatical and logical sense is completed within the line. | 45 | |
| 2683315431 | epic | A long narrative poem, written in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society | 46 |
