5432097761 | pious | adj. devoutly religious | 0 | |
5432097763 | mirth | n. gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter | 1 | |
5432100820 | conscientious | adj. diligent and careful | 2 | |
5432104305 | melancholy | n. dark sadness | 3 | |
5432110766 | false | adj. deliberately untrue; said or done to fool or deceive someone | 4 | |
5432147703 | frivolous | adj. of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously | 5 | |
5432153698 | fraudulence | n. obtained for criminal deception. Forgery for material gain. | 6 | |
5432159906 | incorrigible | adj. not able to be corrected; beyond control | 7 | |
5432164415 | charlatan | n. a fake; fraud; imposter; cheat | 8 | |
5432167388 | seditious | adj. resistant to lawful authority; having the purpose of overthrowing an established government; treasonous | 9 | |
5432176464 | didactic | adj. intended to teach | 10 | |
5432178937 | gluttony | n. overindulgence in food or drink | 11 | |
5432181649 | chastise | v. to inflict physical punishment as a means of correction; to scold severely | 12 | |
5432190005 | recapitulate | v. to review a series of facts; to sum up "recap" | 13 | |
5432193764 | anecdote | n. a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person; it is used to illustrate a point. | 14 | |
5432203315 | paradigm | n. model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc. | 15 | |
5432220684 | versification | n. the act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition. | 16 | |
5432224459 | heroic couplet | n. a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style | 17 | |
5432227536 | irreverent | adj. sacrilegious; lacking proper respect or seriousness; disrespectful | 18 | |
5432240713 | rhyme royale | n. seven-line iambic pentameter stanza, with the rhyme scheme ABABBCC, sometimes ending with a hexameter line | 19 |
AP Literature - Week of 11/14 Flashcards
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