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AP Literature: Poetry Flashcards
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| 13304007505 | poetry is a mode of writing that focuses on what? | rhythm, meter, and sound as on meaning and communication | 0 | |
| 13304012402 | what does poetry emphasize? | emphasizes the interaction of sound and sense | 1 | |
| 13304017680 | definition of poetry varies according to what? | culture and historical period | 2 | |
| 13304024629 | what might poetry resemble? | songs, chance, prayers/meditations, prose to scription, and narrative, or even visual art | 3 | |
| 13304030952 | poetry's purposes ranges from what? | religious ritual to popular entertainment | 4 | |
| 13306142905 | poetry has closer ties to what than prose? | performance | 5 | |
| 13308754649 | even when not read aloud, poetry is concerned with what? | the auditory and visual way it strikes its audience | 6 | |
| 13308768477 | what are the nine poetic schools of thought in order? | 1. old english period 2. anglo-norman and middle english period 3. renaissance 4. neoclassicism 5. romanticism 6. victorian period 7. symbolism 8. modernism 9. post modernism | 7 | |
| 13308811448 | what is the time period of the old english period? | 650-1066 | 8 | |
| 13308819203 | what is the time period of the anglo-norman and middle english period? | 1066-1500 | 9 | |
| 13308830051 | what is the time period of the renaissance? | 1500-1600 | 10 | |
| 13308837132 | what is the time period of neoclassicism? | 1660-1798 | 11 | |
| 13308844138 | what is the time period of romanticism? | 1798-1832 | 12 | |
| 13308848954 | what is the time period of the victorian period? | 1832-1910 | 13 | |
| 13309952330 | what is the time period of symbolism? | 1890-1914 | 14 | |
| 13309961992 | what is the time period of modernism? | 1914-1965 | 15 | |
| 13309971691 | what is the time period of postmodernism? | 1965-PRESENT | 16 | |
| 13309980978 | which poetic schools of thought did poetry represent oral traditions and displays a mixture of Pagan and Christian elements? | old english period | 17 | |
| 13310004096 | which poetic schools of thought introduced the techniques of alliteration and what we call caesuras? | old english period | 18 | |
| 13310023756 | which poetic schools of thought was poetry influenced by a dominant French culture? | anglo norman and middle english period | 19 | |
| 13310070113 | which poetic schools of thought influenced lyric poetry, syllabic meters, rhyme, and the ballad? | anglo norman and middle english period | 20 | |
| 13310085677 | which poetic schools of thought was seen as the rebirth of humanistic culture? | renaissance | 21 | |
| 13310103780 | which poetic schools of thought was the focus on mankind rather than God? | renaissance | 22 | |
| 13310118805 | which poetic schools of thought acquainted readers with the Greek and Roman classics? | renaissance | 23 | |
| 13310128963 | which poetic schools of thought marked a new interest in science and art? | renaissance | 24 | |
| 13310141231 | which poetic schools of thought introduced classic meters: the sonnet and baroque style (showcased exaggeration, excuse, and extravagant imagery)? | renaissance | 25 | |
| 13310152602 | which poetic schools of thought was poetry characterized by a controlled mutation of classic forms with emphasis on restraint, correctness, order, and good taste? | neoclassicism | 26 | |
| 13310163453 | which poetic schools of thought introduced regular, predictable forms like the heroic couplet? | neoclassicism | 27 | |
| 13310175991 | which poetic schools of thought resisted the restrictions of the Neoclassical Period and celebrated the imagination over rationality, passion, and dreams over reason? | romanticism | 28 | |
| 13310184797 | which poetic schools of thought celebrated external reality and isolated individuality over collective humankind? | romanticism | 29 | |
| 13310193062 | which poetic schools of thought introduced blank verse, ballad lyrics, and order? | romanticism | 30 | |
| 13310199545 | which poetic schools of thought was characterized by attention by poetry's romantic legacy of fantasy and freedom in the industrialized world's growing emphasis on money, propriety, security, religious faith, and patriotism? | victorian period | 31 | |
| 13310216601 | which poetic schools of thought is romantic, escapist, and employs traditional form? | victorian period | 32 | |
| 13320706951 | which poetic schools of thought rebelled against the uptight realism of Victorian literature and returned to the imaginative freedom of Romanticism, but this time focused on the mystical and mythical connection between the visible world and what lies beyond it? | symbolism | 33 | |
| 13320717296 | which poetic schools of thought characterized by a conscious reexamination of what poetry is? | modernism | 34 | |
| 13320722644 | which poetic schools of thought is a breakdown of traditional forms and styles? | modernism | 35 | |
| 13320726487 | which poetic schools of thought was attention paid to the density of language and the intensity of imagery? | modernism | 36 | |
| 13320872040 | which poetic schools of thought explored alienation, urbanization, technology and its advancement, and introduced free verse? | modernism | 37 | |
| 13320881717 | which poetic schools of thought reexamines the nature and function of poetry? | postmodernism | 38 | |
| 13320886599 | which poetic schools of thought eliminates traditional distractions between cultures and assumptions about language? | postmodernism | 39 | |
| 13320890563 | which poetic schools of thought does free verse become the dominant form? | postmodernism | 40 | |
| 13321100630 | we read poetry for what? | emotional and intellectual discovery to feel and experience something about the world and ourself | 41 | |
| 13321102653 | what is a line of poetry called? | verse | 42 | |
| 13321106460 | what is a grouped lines of verse that serve as the building blocks for a poem called? | stanza | 43 | |
| 13321123816 | what is a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line? | meter | 44 | |
| 13321127280 | what is also described in terms which include both the kind of feet and the number of feet per line? | meter | 45 | |
| 13321130978 | what are the four types of meter? | accentual, syllabic, accentual-syllabic, and quantitative | 46 | |
| 13322107399 | what type of meter is a verse in which the total number of stressed syllables per line remain constant regardless of the number of total syllables? | accentual | 47 | |
| 13322127838 | what type of meter is a verse in which the total number of syllables per line remains constant regardless of stressed syllables? | syllabic | 48 | |
| 13322136246 | what type of meter is a verse that maintains a specific number of stressed syllables per line as well as a more or less fixed number of total syllables? | accentual-syllabic | 49 | |
| 13322145436 | what type of meter is a verse based on a syllable's length or duration in time? | quantitative | 50 | |
| 13322158023 | what a basic unit of rhythm and the building block of poetry? | foot | 51 | |
| 13322158089 | what is composed of a certain number of stressed and unstressed syllables? | foot | 52 | |
| 13322168970 | what is the process of figuring out the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line? | scansion | 53 | |
| 13322190468 | poems are classified by what? | number of feet per line | 54 | |
| 13322195778 | a one foot poem is called | monometer | 55 | |
| 13322199603 | a two foot poem is called | bimeter | 56 | |
| 13322201847 | a three foot poem is called | trimeter | 57 | |
| 13322201848 | a four foot poem is called | tetrameter | 58 | |
| 13322206310 | a five foot poem is called | pentameter | 59 | |
| 13322208852 | a six foot poem is called | hexameter | 60 | |
| 13322214213 | a seven foot poem is called | heptameter | 61 | |
| 13322218343 | an eight foot poem is called | octometer | 62 | |
| 13322231713 | there is usually a _____ between feet, but poets sometime make _____ _____ between feet in a line | pause, extra pauses | 63 | |
| 13322252488 | what is an extra pause referred to as? | caesura | 64 | |
| 13322258330 | what does // represent? | caesura | 65 | |
| 13322262109 | what are the 6 types of feet? | iamb, trochee, dactyl, anapest, amphibrach, spondee | 66 | |
| 13322285759 | what type of feet is two syllables (unstressed, stressed)? | iamb | 67 | |
| 13322294655 | what type of feet has two syllables (stressed, unstressed)? | trochee | 68 | |
| 13322307735 | what type of feet has three syllables (stressed, unstressed, unstressed)? | dactyl | 69 | |
| 13322313267 | what type of feet three syllables (unstressed, unstressed, stressed)? | anapest | 70 | |
| 13322342642 | what type of feet has three syllables (unstressed, stressed, unstressed) | amphibrach | 71 | |
| 13322365054 | what type of feet has two syllables (stressed, stressed)? | spondee | 72 | |
| 13322375931 | which feets have two syllables? | iamb, trochee, spondee | 73 | |
| 13322379712 | which feets have three syllables? | dactyl, anapest, amphibrach | 74 | |
| 13322388279 | what are the four common types of meter? | iambic pentameter, blank verse, ballad, and free verse | 75 | |
| 13322401561 | which type of meter has five iambs per line? | iambic pentameter | 76 | |
| 13322408541 | which type of meter has unrhymed iambic pentameter? | blank verse | 77 | |
| 13322412607 | which type of meter has alternating tetrameter and trimeter (usually iambic and rhyming)? | ballad | 78 | |
| 13322418700 | which type of meter has verse without a fixed meter or rhyme, but uses formal elements of pattern or verse? | free verse | 79 | |
| 13322425310 | poets can manipulate the shape and pattern of what to create various effects? | line | 80 | |
| 13322447362 | what are the seven types of lines? | end stopped line, enjambed, refrain, stanza, cantos, couplet, sonnet | 81 | |
| 13322457835 | which type of line has a clause or sentence concludes at the end of line of poetry? | end stopped line | 82 | |
| 13322464861 | which type of line has a clause or sentence runs over into the following line? | enjambed | 83 | |
| 13322472425 | which type of line has a line that is repeated one or more times in a poem to create a haunting effect? | refrain | 84 | |
| 13322479469 | which type of line has a line(s) gathered into spacial segments? | stanza | 85 | |
| 13322488945 | which type of line has a very long (book length poem) and divided into large segments (like chapters of a book) | cantos | 86 | |
| 13322492153 | which type of line has two consecutive rhyming lines? | couplet | 87 | |
| 13322495342 | which type of line is a 14-lined poem? | sonnet | 88 | |
| 13408539053 | what is the most easily recognized characteristic of poetry which is repetition of similar sounds in poetry? | rhyme | 89 | |
| 13408539054 | what can also be arranged into different configurations for effect? | rhyme | 90 | |
| 13408539055 | the configurations poetry is arranged in are referred to as what? | rhyme scheme | 91 | |
| 13408539056 | what are the five most common rhyme schemes? | couplet, tercet, terza rima, quatrain, and sestets | 92 | |
| 13408539057 | what type of rhyme scheme is grouping of three lines that usually have one rhyme called? | tercet | 93 | |
| 13408539058 | what type of rhyme scheme is a triple group of lines consisting of interlocking triplets ("aba" "bcb" "cdc") often with a final couplet rhymed with the second line of the last triplet? | terza rima | 94 | |
| 13408539059 | what type of rhyme scheme is a group of four lines rhymed in various ways? | quatrain | 95 | |
| 13408539060 | what type of rhyme scheme is a group of six lines rhymed in various ways? | sestets | 96 | |
| 13408539061 | what are the seven types of rhyme? | feminine rhyme, masculine rhyme, end rhyme, internal rhyme, sound devices, perfect/exact rhyme, and slant/off rhyme | 97 | |
| 13408539062 | what type of rhyme occurs if the rhyme syllables are stressed before the final syllable in a line? | feminine rhyme | 98 | |
| 13408539063 | what type of rhyme occurs if the rhyme syllables are stressed in the last line? | masculine rhyme | 99 | |
| 13408539064 | what type of rhyme are rhymes appearing at the end of lines in poetry? | end rhyme | 100 | |
| 13408539065 | most poems are this type of rhyme, but rhymes elsewhere in the lines are possible | end rhyme | 101 | |
| 13408539066 | what type of rhyme are rhyme(s) before the end of the line of poetry? | internal rhyme | 102 | |
| 13408539067 | what type of rhyme are the elements that enhance upon its meaning by adding a musical quality to the language? | sound devices | 103 | |
| 13408539068 | what are the four types of sound devices? | assonance, alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia | 104 | |
| 13408539069 | what type of sound device is the repetition of the vowel sound (not necessarily rhyming exactly)? | assonance | 105 | |
| 13408539070 | what type of sound device is the repetition of the beginning consonant sound? | alliteration | 106 | |
| 13408539071 | what type of sound device is the repetition of final consonant sounds? | consonance | 107 | |
| 13408539072 | what type of sound device is the use of the word that sounds like what it means? | onomatopoeia | 108 | |
| 13408539073 | what type of rhyme is the rhyming vowel and consonants are exactly the same? | perfect/exact rhyme | 109 | |
| 13408539074 | what type of rhyme is an imperfect rhyme in which either the consonants or the vowels rhyme, but both do no? | slant/off rhyme | 110 | |
| 13408539075 | what are the six types of poetic forms? | ottava rima, haiku, limerick, villanelle, sestina, sonnet | 111 | |
| 13408539076 | what type of poetic form is an eight line stanza of iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abababcc? | ottava rima | 112 | |
| 13408539077 | what type of poetic form is a form that contains 17 syllables arranged in groups of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively? | haiku | 113 | |
| 13408539078 | what type of poetic form is a 5 line stanza with the rhyme scheme aabba and the first and the fifth lines may end with the same word? | limerick | 114 | |
| 13408539079 | what type of poetic form is a form consisting of 19 lines divided into 6 stanzas? | villanelle | 115 | |
| 13408539080 | what type of poetic form are the first five stanzas tercets? | villanelle | 116 | |
| 13408539081 | what type of poetic form is the last stanza a quatrain? | villanelle | 117 | |
| 13408539082 | what type of poetic form has two lines and two refrains? | villanelle | 118 | |
| 13408539083 | what type of poetic form is line one repeated in line 6, 12, and 18? | villanelle | 119 | |
| 13408539084 | what type of poetic form is line three repeated in lines 9, 15, and 19? | villanelle | 120 | |
| 13408539085 | what type of poetic form is a from consisting of six six lines stanzas followed by a three line stanza? | sestina | 121 | |
| 13408539086 | what type of poetic form are the same six words repeated at the end of lines throughout in a predetermined pattern? | sestina | 122 | |
| 13408539087 | what type of poetic form is a 14 line poem in iambic pentameter? | sonnet | 123 | |
| 13408539088 | what type of poetic form do the first eight lines (octave) pose a question or dilemma that is resolved in the final six lines called a sestet? | sonnet | 124 | |
| 13415695131 | what are the three major types of sonnets? | Shakespearean, Spenserian, Petrarchan | 125 | |
| 13415708740 | what type of sonnet is divided into four parts, three quatrains with the rhyme scheme of ababcdcdefef, and a rhymed couplet gg? | Shakespearean sonnet | 126 | |
| 13415716827 | what type of sonnet is a variant of the Shakespearean form which link the three quatrains with an interlocked rhyme scheme ababbcbccdcdee? | Spenserian | 127 | |
| 13415722726 | what type of sonnet is an Italian sonnet, divided into two main parts--an octave (8 lines) with a rhyme scheme of abbaabba all together or abbacddc all together, and a sestet (6 lines) with a rhyme scheme cdecde or cdcdcd? | Petrarchan | 128 | |
| 13415732940 | what is often refered as diction which is the choice of words in a poem and there are generally two types, high and low diction? | language of poetry | 129 | |
| 13415750498 | what language of poetry suggests a sophisticated or educated speaker? | high diction | 130 | |
| 13415754433 | what language of poetry has a simpler, less cultivated speaker? | low diction | 131 | |
| 13415759570 | what is a word or set of words that paints a verbal picture of an object, idea, mood, or situation? | image | 132 | |
| 13415763700 | what are the two types of image? | literal and figurative | 133 | |
| 13415772478 | what type of image is a physically visible object in a poem? | literal | 134 | |
| 13415776467 | what type of image is not really present, but it conjured up by your imagination? | figurative | 135 | |
| 13415785328 | what is the major idea the poem illustrates? | theme | 136 | |
| 13415793347 | what is the most basic element of a poem and its meaning? | theme | 137 | |
| 13415796033 | what is often suttle and sometimes sensual? | theme | 138 | |
| 13415801008 | what is the aspect of the speaker's voice that reveals his/her attitude toward the theme or subject of the poem? | tone | 139 | |
| 13415804894 | what is the discrepancy between expectation and reality, but in the case of poetry is between words and intension? | irony | 140 | |
| 13415814053 | what is a reference in a poem to a literary work, historical event, philosophical idea, mythological story, cultural product, religious credo, and there are numerous other, but these are the ones you see most often? | allusion | 141 | |
| 13415818005 | what is the repeating of words, phrases, lines, sound, or any other elements of syntax? | repitition | 142 | |
| 13415821905 | what is the direct address to an inanimate object or idea? | apostrophe | 143 | |
| 13415849163 | what are the different levels of meaning? | connotative, denotative, figurative meaning | 144 | |
| 13415862062 | what type of level of meaning is a person's associations with something, even an unconscious association with it, are conveyed by a single word? | connotative | 145 | |
| 13415866462 | what type of level of meaning is the dictionary meaning of something? | denotative | 146 | |
| 13415889603 | what type of level of meaning is straight forward significance? | denotative | 147 | |
| 13415896647 | what type of level of meaning is a type of connotative meaning, but it is figurative meaning conveyed using figures of speech that require a leap of imagination? | figurative meaning | 148 | |
| 13415911099 | what type of figurative meaning is a comparison between two things not using like or as? | metaphor | 149 | |
| 13415922485 | when using a metaphor, you'll have an object, idea, or phrase substituted for what? | another in order to suggest that there is a similarity between the two | 150 | |
| 13415935134 | what is a figure of speech using the words like or as to compare two objects? | simile | 151 | |
| 13415942408 | what is a figure of speech that refers to a whole entity by identifying only a part of it? | synecdoche | 152 | |
| 13415949131 | what is a figure of speech that refers to something by identifying an object or term closely associated with it? | metonymy | 153 | |
| 13415963123 | what is a figure of speech where human qualities are assigned to an inanimate idea? | personification | 154 | |
| 13415966769 | what is an image that means something more than what is shown? | symbol | 155 | |
| 13415980334 | what is a tale with two or more levels of meaning--literal and symbolic? | allegory | 156 | |
| 13415987883 | what juxtaposes two opposite or contradictory words to reveal an interesting truth? | oxymoron | 157 | |
| 13416002508 | what is also refered to as an understatement? | paradox | 158 | |
| 13416013233 | what litotes and is a statement that means less than you intend it to, or an idea that seems contradictory but is actually true? | paradox | 159 | |
| 13416026174 | what is an overstatement and suggests exaggeration? | hyperbole | 160 | |
| 13430131108 | poetic drama is not necessarily associated with what? | rhyme or meter | 161 | |
| 13430137948 | poetic genres are defined according to what? | theme, style, and attitude | 162 | |
| 13430146683 | what type of genre is a long, serious narrative poem concerning a hero figure or a group of heroic figures engaged in historical or mythical events that are usually of great significance to a culture? | epic | 163 | |
| 13430151679 | what is an example of an epic poem? | odyssey | 164 | |
| 13430156890 | what type of genre is written in dialogue or monologue using the voice of a character created by the poet and not identifiable with the poet? | dramatic | 165 | |
| 13430164356 | what type of genre s written in a subjectively rich voice often with a strong emotional element? | lyric | 166 | |
| 13430171172 | what type of genre is first person and focuses on inner experiences rather than outward story? | lyric | 167 | |
| 13430176404 | what type of genre includes sonnets, odes, elegies, and haikus? | lyric | 168 | |
| 13430185001 | what is a lyric poem of extreme emotion celebrating someone or something often addressed to its subject? | ode | 169 | |
| 13430188876 | what is a poetic lament for the dead or absent? | elegy | 170 | |
| 13430192987 | what focuses on a single thing? | sonnet | 171 | |
| 13430677903 | what is a form of free verse that lacks the formal shape of poetry as well as lacking regular rhyme and meter? | prose | 172 | |
| 13430680986 | what tells a story and usually includes ballads and epics? | narrative | 173 | |
| 13430687336 | what is a song-like poem that tells a story and often deals with romance or adventure? | ballad | 174 | |
| 13430694204 | what has an imaginary character speaking to a silent listener? | dramatic monologue | 175 | |
| 13430740004 | what is a brief and witty poem that is usually making a seteric or humorous point? | epigram | 176 | |
| 13430745964 | what doesn't have a form like the others, but is most likely written in couplet? | epigram | 177 | |
| 13430760307 | what is the fundamental nature of reality referred to as? | metaphysical | 178 | |
| 13430764319 | what raises questions and issues about how and why stories are told? | metaphysical | 179 |
US AP History Period 1: 1491-1607 Flashcards
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| 13861901850 | A land bridge from Asia | How early Americans reached North and South America | 0 | |
| 13861901851 | Nomadic; following food and herds | The lifestyle that encouraged Indians to cross the land bridge | 1 | |
| 13861901852 | Mayan, Inca and Aztecs | The most complex Indian communities living in South America | 2 | |
| 13861901853 | Maize | This crop transformed nomadic hunter-gatherer societies into settled farm communities | 3 | |
| 13861901854 | Silk, Spices, Oils/Perfumes | Items desired from Persia & China | 4 | |
| 13861901855 | God, Gold & Glory | 3 motives for Spanish Exploration | 5 | |
| 13861901856 | Hispaniola | The area in which Columbus landed | 6 | |
| 13861901857 | Treaty of Tordesillas | The agreement settling the dispute between Spain & Portugal for land in the Americas. | 7 | |
| 13861901858 | Semi-permanent settlements | Most people in the Americas lived in this type of settlement by the time of Christopher Columbus. | 8 | |
| 13861901859 | Anasazi; Pueblo | Tribes that settled in the Southwest; had culture based on farming & irrigation systems with permanent buildings | 9 | |
| 13861901860 | Northwest Indians | Lived in permanent longhouses that had a rich diet based on hunting & fishing | 10 | |
| 13861901861 | Great Plains Indians | Tribe that was nomadic OR farmers/traders; hunted buffalo, raised maize, beans & squash | 11 | |
| 13861901862 | What did the Treaty of Tordesillas say? | Divided the trade routes to Asia: Spain gets the route across the Atlantic and Portugal gets the route around Africa. Also, Spain got a lot of land in the New World and Portugal got present-day Brazil. | 12 | |
| 13861901863 | Cortes | Conquered the Aztecs | 13 | |
| 13861901864 | Pizzaro | Conquered the Incas | 14 | |
| 13861901865 | Bartolome de las Casas | Man who stood up for the rights on the natives. | 15 | |
| 13861901866 | Renaissance | Time period that allowed for the invention of gunpowder, the compass and advanced shipbuilding and mapmaking | 16 | |
| 13861901867 | Vasco de Gama | First European to reach India using the route around South Africa's Cape of Good Hope. | 17 | |
| 13861901868 | John Cabot | First explorer sent by England to the New World; explored the North American coast | 18 | |
| 13861901869 | Christopher Columbus | Explorer who won the backing of Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand of Spain to sail west from Europe to the "Indies." | 19 | |
| 13861901870 | Ferdinand Magellan | Explorer who is credited with the 1st circumnavigation of the earth | 20 | |
| 13861901871 | Henry Hudson | While searching for the northwest passage, this explorer sailed up a a broad river to give the Dutch claim | 21 | |
| 13861901872 | Columbian Exchange | Exchange of plants, animals, and diseases (beans, corn, potatoes, tomatoes & tobacco) between Old World and New World after the time of Columbus. | 22 | |
| 13861901873 | Corn, beans, squash (3 sister farming) | 3 crops from the Americas ended up being staple crops in Europe? | 23 | |
| 13861901874 | Horses | Animal introduced by the Spanish that changed the lifestyle of the Native American | 24 | |
| 13861901875 | Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, influenza | Diseases from the Old World and went to the New World | 25 | |
| 13861901876 | Syphillis | Disease from the New World to the Old World | 26 | |
| 13861901877 | Valladolid Debate | The argument between Bartolome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda over treatment of Indians by the Spanish. | 27 | |
| 13861901878 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it; essentially set up slavery for Native Americans | 28 | |
| 13861901879 | Atlantic slave trade | Lasted from 16th century until the 19th century. Trade of African peoples from Western Africa to the Americas. 98% of Africans were sent to the Caribbean, South and Central America. | 29 | |
| 13861901880 | Iroquois | A later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests | 30 | |
| 13861901881 | Cherokee | Are a Native American people historically settled in the Southeastern United States (principally Georgia, the Carolinas and Eastern Tennessee). Linguistically, they are part of the Iroquoian-language family. | 31 | |
| 13861901882 | Inuit | A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia) |  | 32 |
| 13861901883 | Maya | Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar. | 33 | |
| 13861901884 | Aztec | (1200-1521) 1300, they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. Worshipped many gods (polytheistic). Believed the sun god needed human blood to continue his journeys across the sky. | 34 | |
| 13861901885 | Inca | Their empire stretched from what is today Ecuador to central Chili in the Andes Mountain region of South America. Called the Children of the Sun. | 35 | |
| 13861901886 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins. | 36 | |
| 13861901887 | Nomad | Early, simplistic man that migrated across the land bridge. | 37 | |
| 13861901888 | Martin Luther | Broke away from the Catholic Church because of his 95 problems with the Catholic Church. | 38 | |
| 13861901889 | King Henry VIII | Broke away from the Catholic Church because of his disagreement with his inability to get divorced; which eventually led to civil unrest in his country. | 39 | |
| 13861901890 | New France | Established in Canada and along the Mississippi River, focused on fur trade. | 40 | |
| 13861901891 | Animism | Belief that non-human things possess a spiritual essence | 41 | |
| 13861901892 | Mestizo | People with mixed Indian & European heritage | 42 | |
| 13861901893 | Mulatto | People of mixed white and black ancestry | 43 | |
| 13861901894 | Pope's Rebellion/Pueblo Revolt | 1680 conflict that lead to death of hundreds of Spanish colonists and destruction of Catholic churches in the area | 44 | |
| 13861901895 | Cultural autonomy | Conflicts between Natives and Europeans were for the Natives to maintain this | 45 | |
| 13861901896 | Mercantilism | Economic system in which the colonies exist to enrich the Mother country; attempt to export to colonies more than they import | 46 |
AP Psychology AP Review Flashcards
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| 13807920174 | psychology | the study of behavior and mental processes | 0 | |
| 13807920175 | psychology's biggest question | Which is more important in determining behavior, nature or nurture? | 1 | |
| 13807920176 | psychology's three levels of analysis | biopsychosocial approach (looks at the biological, psychological, and social-cultural approaches together) | 2 | |
| 13807920177 | biological approach | genetics, close-relatives, body functions | 3 | |
| 13807920178 | evolutionary approach | species - helped with survival (ancestors) | 4 | |
| 13807920179 | psychodynamic approach | (Freud) subconscious, repressed feelings, unfulfilled wishes | 5 | |
| 13807920180 | behavioral approach | learning (classical and operant) observed | 6 | |
| 13807920181 | cognitive approach | thinking affects behavior | 7 | |
| 13807920182 | humanistic approach | becoming a better human (behavior, acceptance) | 8 | |
| 13807920183 | social-cultural approach | cultural, family, environment | 9 | |
| 13807920184 | two reasons of why experiments are important | hindsight bias + overconfidence | 10 | |
| 13807920185 | types of research methods | descriptive, correlational, and experimental | 11 | |
| 13807920186 | descriptive methods | case study survey naturalistic observation (DON'T SHOW CAUSE/EFFECT) | 12 | |
| 13807920187 | case study | studies one person in depth may not be typical of population | 13 | |
| 13807920188 | survey | studies lots of people not in depth | 14 | |
| 13807920189 | naturalistic observation | observe + write facts without interference | 15 | |
| 13807920190 | correlational method | shows relation, but not cause/effect scatterplots show research | 16 | |
| 13807920191 | correlation coefficient | + 1.0 (both increase) 0 (no correlation - 1.0 (one increases, other decreases) | 17 | |
| 13807920192 | experimental method | does show cause and effect | 18 | |
| 13807920193 | population | type of people who are going to be used in experiment | 19 | |
| 13807920194 | sample | actual people who will be used (randomness reduces bias) | 20 | |
| 13807920195 | random assignment | chance selection between experimental and control groups | 21 | |
| 13807920196 | control group | not receiving experimental treatment receives placebo | 22 | |
| 13807920197 | experimental group | receiving treatment/drug | 23 | |
| 13807920198 | independent variable | drug/procedure/treatment | 24 | |
| 13807920199 | dependent variable | outcome of using the drug/treatment | 25 | |
| 13807920200 | confounding variable | can affect dependent variable beyond experiment's control | 26 | |
| 13807920201 | scientific method | theory hypothesis operational definition revision | 27 | |
| 13807920202 | theory | general idea being tested | 28 | |
| 13807920203 | hypothesis | measurable/specific | 29 | |
| 13807920204 | operational definition | procedures that explain components | 30 | |
| 13807920205 | mode | appears the most | 31 | |
| 13807920206 | mean | average | 32 | |
| 13807920207 | median | middle | 33 | |
| 13807920208 | range | highest - lowest | 34 | |
| 13807920209 | standard deviation | how scores vary around the mean | 35 | |
| 13807920210 | central tendency | single score that represents the whole | 36 | |
| 13807920211 | bell curve | (natural curve) |  | 37 |
| 13807920212 | ethics of testing on animals | need to be treated humanly basically similar to humans | 38 | |
| 13807920213 | ethics of testing on humans | consent debriefing no unnecessary discomfort/pain confidentiality | 39 | |
| 13807920214 | sensory neurons | travel from sensory receptors to brain | 40 | |
| 13807920215 | motor neurons | travel from brain to "motor" workings | 41 | |
| 13807920216 | interneurons | (in brain and spinal cord) connecting motor and sensory neurons | 42 | |
| 13807920408 | neuron |  | 43 | |
| 13807920217 | dendrites | receive messages from other neurons | 44 | |
| 13807920218 | myelin sheath | protects the axon | 45 | |
| 13807920219 | axon | where charges travel from cell body to axon terminal | 46 | |
| 13807920220 | neurotransmitters | chemical messengers | 47 | |
| 13807920221 | reuptake | extra neurotransmitters are taken back | 48 | |
| 13807920222 | excitatory charge | "Let's do it!" | 49 | |
| 13807920223 | inhibitory charge | "Let's not do it!" | 50 | |
| 13807920224 | central nervous system | brain and spinal cord | 51 | |
| 13807920225 | peripheral nervous system | somatic nervous system autonomic nervous system | 52 | |
| 13807920226 | somatic nervous system | voluntary movements | 53 | |
| 13807920227 | autonomic nervous system | involuntary movements (sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems) | 54 | |
| 13807920228 | sympathetic nervous system | arousing | 55 | |
| 13807920229 | parasympathetic nervous system | calming | 56 | |
| 13807920230 | neural networks | more connections form with greater use others fall away if not used | 57 | |
| 13807920231 | spinal cord | expressway of information bypasses brain when reflexes involved | 58 | |
| 13807920232 | endocrine system | slow uses hormones in the blood system | 59 | |
| 13807920233 | master gland | pituitary gland | 60 | |
| 13807920234 | brainstem | extension of the spinal cord responsible for automatic survival | 61 | |
| 13807920235 | reticular formation (if stimulated) | sleeping subject wakes up | 62 | |
| 13807920236 | reticular formation (if damaged) | coma | 63 | |
| 13807920237 | brainstem (if severed) | still move (without purpose) | 64 | |
| 13807920238 | thalamus | sensory switchboard (does not process smell) | 65 | |
| 13807920239 | hypothalamus | basic behaviors (hunger, thirst, sex, blood chemistry) | 66 | |
| 13807920240 | cerebellum | nonverbal memory, judge time, balance emotions, coordinate movements | 67 | |
| 13807920241 | cerebellum (if damaged) | difficulty walking and coordinating | 68 | |
| 13807920242 | amygdala | aggression, fear, and memory associated with these emotions | 69 | |
| 13807920243 | amygdala (if lesioned) | subject is mellow | 70 | |
| 13807920244 | amygdala (if stimulated) | aggressive | 71 | |
| 13807920245 | hippocampus | process new memory | 72 | |
| 13807920246 | cerebrum | two large hemispheres perceiving, thinking, and processing | 73 | |
| 13807920247 | cerebral cortex | only in higher life forms | 74 | |
| 13807920248 | association areas | integrate and interpret information | 75 | |
| 13807920249 | glial cells | provide nutrients to myelin sheath marks intelligence higher proportion of glial cells to neurons | 76 | |
| 13807920250 | frontal lobe | judgement, personality, processing (Phineas Gage accident) | 77 | |
| 13807920251 | parietal lobe | math and spatial reasoning | 78 | |
| 13807920252 | temporal lobe | audition and recognizing faces | 79 | |
| 13807920253 | occipital lobe | vision | 80 | |
| 13807920254 | corpus callosum | split in the brain to stop hyper-communication (eliminate epileptic seizures) | 81 | |
| 13807920255 | Wernicke's area | interprets auditory and hearing | 82 | |
| 13807920256 | Broca's area | speaking words | 83 | |
| 13807920257 | plasticity | ability to adapt if damaged | 84 | |
| 13807920258 | sensation | what our senses tell us | 85 | |
| 13807920259 | bottom-up processing | senses to brain | 86 | |
| 13807920260 | perception | what our brain tells us to do with that information | 87 | |
| 13807920261 | top-down processing | brain to senses | 88 | |
| 13807920262 | inattentional blindness | fail to "gorilla" because attention is elsewhere | 89 | |
| 13807920263 | cocktail party effect | even with tons of stimuli, we are able to pick out our name, etc. | 90 | |
| 13807920264 | change blindness | giving directions and person is changed and we don't notice | 91 | |
| 13807920265 | choice blindness | when defending the choice we make, we fail to notice choice was changed | 92 | |
| 13807920266 | absolute threshold | minimum stimulation needed in order to notice 50% of the time | 93 | |
| 13807920267 | signal detection theory | we notice what is more important to us (rather hear a baby crying) | 94 | |
| 13807920268 | JND (just noticeable difference) | (Weber's law) difference between different stimuli noticed in proportion | 95 | |
| 13807920269 | sensory adaptation | tired of noticing (Brain says, "Been there, done that. Next?" | 96 | |
| 13807920270 | rods | night time | 97 | |
| 13807920271 | cones | color | 98 | |
| 13807920272 | parallel processing | notice color, form, depth, movement, etc. | 99 | |
| 13807920273 | Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory | 3 corresponding color receptors (RGB) | 100 | |
| 13807920274 | Hering's opponent-process theory | after image in opposite colors (RG, YB, WB) | 101 | |
| 13807920275 | trichromatic + opponent-process | Young-Helmholtz -> color stimuli Hering -> en route to cortex | 102 | |
| 13807920276 | frequency we hear most | human voice | 103 | |
| 13807920277 | Helmoltz (hearing) | we hear different pitches in different places in basilar membrane (high pitches) | 104 | |
| 13807920278 | frequency theory | impulse frequency (low pitches) | 105 | |
| 13807920279 | Helmholtz + frequency theory | middle pitches | 106 | |
| 13807920280 | Skin feels what? | warmth, cold, pressure, pain | 107 | |
| 13807920281 | gate-control theory | small fibers - pain large fibers - other senses | 108 | |
| 13807920282 | memory of pain | peaks and ends | 109 | |
| 13807920283 | smell | close to memory section (not in thalamus) | 110 | |
| 13807920284 | grouping | Gestalt make sense of pieces create a whole | 111 | |
| 13807920285 | grouping groups | proximity similarity continuity connectedness closure | 112 | |
| 13807920286 | make assumptions of placement | higher - farther smaller - farther blocking - closer, in front | 113 | |
| 13807920287 | perception = | mood + motivation | 114 | |
| 13807920288 | consciousness | awareness of ourselves and the environment | 115 | |
| 13807920289 | circadian rhythm | daily biological clock and regular cycle (sleep and awake) | 116 | |
| 13807920290 | circadian rhythm pattern | - activated by light - light sensitive retinal proteins signal brains SCN (suprachiasmatic nucleus) - pineal gland decreases melatonin | 117 | |
| 13807920291 | What messes with circadian rhythm? | artificial light | 118 | |
| 13807920292 | The whole sleep cycle lasts how long? | 90 minutes | 119 | |
| 13807920293 | sleep stages | relaxed stage (alpha waves) stage 1 (early sleep) (hallucinations) stage 2 (sleep spindles - bursts of activity) (sleep talk) stage 3 (transition phase) (delta waves) stage 4 (delta waves) (sleepwalk/talk + wet the bed) stage 5 (REM) (sensory-rich dreams) (paradoxical sleep) | 120 | |
| 13807920294 | purpose of sleep | 1. recuperation - repair neurons and allow unused neural connections to wither 2. making memories 3. body growth (children sleep more) | 121 | |
| 13807920295 | insomnia | can't sleep | 122 | |
| 13807920296 | narcolepsy | fall asleep anywhere at anytime | 123 | |
| 13807920297 | sleep apnea | stop breathing in sleep | 124 | |
| 13807920298 | night terrors | prevalent in children | 125 | |
| 13807920299 | sleepwalking/sleeptalking | hereditary - prevalent in children | 126 | |
| 13807920300 | dreaming (3) | 1. vivid bizarre intense sensory experiences 2. carry fear/survival issues - vestiges of ancestors' survival ideas 2. replay previous day's experiences/worries | 127 | |
| 13807920301 | purpose of dreaming (5 THEORIES) | 1. physiological function - develop/preserve neural pathways 2. Freud's wish-fulfillment (manifest/latent content) 3. activation synthesis - make sense of stimulation originating in brain 4. information processing 5. cognitive development - reflective of intelligence | 128 | |
| 13807920302 | 1. Can hypnosis bring you back in time? 2. Can hypnosis make you do things you wouldn't normally do? 3. Can it alleviate pain? 4. What state are you in during hypnosis? 5. Who is more susceptible? | 1. cannot take you back in time 2. cannot make you do things you won't do 3. can alleviate pain 4. fully conscious ((IMAGINATIVE PEOPLE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE)) | 129 | |
| 13807920303 | depressants | slows neural pathways | 130 | |
| 13807920304 | alcohol | ((depressant)) disrupts memory formation (REM) lowers inhibition expectancy effect | 131 | |
| 13807920305 | barbituates (tranquilizers) | ((depressant)) reduce anxiety | 132 | |
| 13807920306 | opiates | ((depressant)) pleasure reduce anxiety/pain | 133 | |
| 13807920307 | stimulants | hypes neural processing | 134 | |
| 13807920308 | methamphetamine | ((stimulant)) heightens energy euphoria affects dopamine | 135 | |
| 13807920309 | caffeine | ((stimulant)) | 136 | |
| 13807920310 | nicotine | ((stimulant)) CNS releases neurotransmitters calm anxiety reduce pain affects (nor)epinephrine and dopamine | 137 | |
| 13807920311 | cocaine | ((stimulant)) euphoria affects dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine | 138 | |
| 13807920312 | hallucinogen | excites neural activity | 139 | |
| 13807920313 | ecstasy | ((hallucinogen)) reuptake is blocked affects dopamine and serotonin | 140 | |
| 13807920314 | LSD | ((hallucinogen)) affects sensory/emotional "trip" (+/-) affects serotonin | 141 | |
| 13807920315 | marijuana | ((hallucinogen)) amplify sensory experience disrupts memory formation | 142 | |
| 13807920316 | learning | organism changing behavior due to experience (association of events) | 143 | |
| 13807920317 | types of learning | classical operant observational | 144 | |
| 13807920318 | famous classical psychologists | Pavlov and Watson | 145 | |
| 13807920319 | famous operant psychologist | Skinner | 146 | |
| 13807920320 | famous observational psychologists | Bandura | 147 | |
| 13807920321 | classical conditioning | outside stimulus | 148 | |
| 13807920322 | Pavlov's experiment | Step 1: US (food) -> UR (salivation) Step 2: NS (bell) -> US (food) -> UR (salivation) Later... CS (bell) -> CR (salivation) | 149 | |
| 13807920323 | Watson's experiment | white rat was given to Little Albert Step 1: US (noise) -> UR (cry) Step 2: NS (rat) -> US (noise) -> UR (cry) Later... CS (rat) -> CR (cry) | 150 | |
| 13807920324 | generalization | any small, white fluffy creature will make Albert cry now | 151 | |
| 13807920325 | discriminate | any large, white fluffy creature won't make Albert cry | 152 | |
| 13807920326 | extinction | stop "treating" with conditioned response | 153 | |
| 13807920327 | spontaneous recovery | bring stimulus back after a while | 154 | |
| 13807920328 | operant conditioning | control by organism | 155 | |
| 13807920329 | Skinner's experiment | operant chamber / Skinner box (lead to shaping) | 156 | |
| 13807920330 | shaping | get animal closer to doing what you want them to do | 157 | |
| 13807920331 | reinforcers | want to continue behavior (positive reinforcement: give money to do laundry) (negative reinforcement: do to avoid nagging) | 158 | |
| 13807920332 | punishments | want to stop behavior (positive reinforcement: smack) (negative reinforcement: take away phone) | 159 | |
| 13807920333 | fixed ratio | happens a certain number of times (Starbucks punch card) | 160 | |
| 13807920334 | variable ratio | happens an unpredictable number of times (winning the lottery) | 161 | |
| 13807920335 | organism must do these (2 times) | fixed ratio and variable ratio | 162 | |
| 13807920336 | fixed interval | happens at a certain time (mailman comes to the house at 10:00 AM) | 163 | |
| 13807920337 | variable interval | happens at any time (receive texts from friends) | 164 | |
| 13807920338 | these things happen regardless (2 times) | fixed interval and variable interval | 165 | |
| 13807920339 | Which (fixed/variable) conditions better? | variable | 166 | |
| 13807920340 | criticisms of Skinner | doesn't take into account intrinsic motivation | 167 | |
| 13807920341 | intrinsic motivation | doing something for yourself, not the reward | 168 | |
| 13807920342 | extrinsic motivation | doing something for reward | 169 | |
| 13807920343 | Skinner's legacy | use it personally, at school, and at work | 170 | |
| 13807920344 | famous observational experiment | Bandura's Bobo doll | 171 | |
| 13807920345 | famous observational psychologist | Bandura | 172 | |
| 13807920346 | mirror neurons | "feel" what is observed happens in higher order animals | 173 | |
| 13807920347 | Bobo doll experiment legacy | violent video games/movies desensitize us see good: do good see evil: do evil | 174 | |
| 13807920348 | observational learning | biological behaviors work best | 175 | |
| 13807920349 | habituation | get used to it -> stop reacting | 176 | |
| 13807920350 | examples for observational learning | lectures and reading | 177 | |
| 13807920351 | serotonin involved with memory | speeds the connection between neurons | 178 | |
| 13807920352 | LTP | ((long-term potentiation)) strengthens potential neural forming (associated with speed) | 179 | |
| 13807920353 | CREB | protein that can switch genes on/off with memory and connection of memories | 180 | |
| 13807920354 | glutamate involved with memory | neurotransmitter that enhances LTP | 181 | |
| 13807920355 | glucose involved with memory | released during strong emotions ((signaling important event to be remembered)) | 182 | |
| 13807920356 | flashbulb memory | type of memory remembered because it was an important/quick moment | 183 | |
| 13807920357 | amygdala (memory) | boosts activity of proteins in memory-forming areas to fight/flight | 184 | |
| 13807920358 | cerebellum (memory) | forms and stores implicit memories ((classical conditioning)) | 185 | |
| 13807920359 | hippocampus (memory) | active during sleep (forming memories) ((information "moves" after 48 hours)) | 186 | |
| 13807920360 | memory | learning over time contains information that can be retrieved | 187 | |
| 13807920361 | processing stages | encoding -> storage -> retrieval | 188 | |
| 13807920362 | encoding | information going in | 189 | |
| 13807920363 | storage | keeping information in | 190 | |
| 13807920364 | retrieval | taking information out | 191 | |
| 13807920365 | How long is sensory memory stored? | seconds | 192 | |
| 13807920366 | How long is short-term memory stored? | less than a minute | 193 | |
| 13807920367 | How many bits of information is stored in short-term memory? | 7 | 194 | |
| 13807920368 | How many chunks of information is stored in short-term memory? | 4 | 195 | |
| 13807920369 | How many seconds of words is stored in short-term memory? | 2 | 196 | |
| 13807920370 | short term memory goes to ______________ | working memory | 197 | |
| 13807920371 | working memory | make a connection and process information to mean something | 198 | |
| 13807920372 | working memory goes to _________________ | long-term memory | 199 | |
| 13807920373 | How much is stored in long-term memory? | LIMITLESS | 200 | |
| 13807920374 | implicit memory | naturally do | 201 | |
| 13807920375 | explicit memory | need to explain | 202 | |
| 13807920376 | automatic processing | space, time, frequency, well-learned information | 203 | |
| 13807920377 | effortful processing | processing that requires effort | 204 | |
| 13807920378 | spacing effect | spread out learning over time | 205 | |
| 13807920379 | serial position effect | primary/recency effect | 206 | |
| 13807920380 | primary effect | remember the first things in a list | 207 | |
| 13807920381 | recency effect | remember the last things in a list | 208 | |
| 13807920382 | effortful processing (4 things) | 1. recency effect 2. spacing effect 3. testing effect 4. serial position effect | 209 | |
| 13807920383 | semantic encoding (1) meaning (2) how to | make meaning out of something --- chunk, hierarchy, or connect to you | 210 | |
| 13807920384 | if we can't remember a memory... | 1. change memory to suit us 2. fill in the blanks with logical story | 211 | |
| 13807920385 | misinformation effect | not correct information | 212 | |
| 13807920386 | imagination inflation | imagine or visualize something that isn't real | 213 | |
| 13807920387 | source amnesia | what is the truth? (is it a dream, story, memory, etc.?) | 214 | |
| 13807920388 | priming | association (setting you up) | 215 | |
| 13807920389 | context | environment helps with memory | 216 | |
| 13807920390 | state-dependency | you may remember something if you go back to the state you were in (go back to high) | 217 | |
| 13807920391 | mood-congruency | emotion will bring back similar emotional memories | 218 | |
| 13807920392 | forgetting curve | forget after 5 days forget after 5 years | 219 | |
| 13807920393 | the forgetting curve was created by | Ebbinghaus | 220 | |
| 13807920394 | proactive interference | old information interferes with the new | 221 | |
| 13807920395 | retroactive interference | new information interferes with the old | 222 | |
| 13807920396 | children can't remember before age __ | 3 | 223 | |
| 13807920397 | Loftus | connected to abuse cases/childhood | 224 | |
| 13807920398 | prototypes | generalize | 225 | |
| 13807920399 | problem-solving (4) | trial + error algorithms heuristic (representative + availability) insight - "AHA!" | 226 | |
| 13807920400 | against problem-solving | fixation | 227 | |
| 13807920401 | mental set | what has worked in the past | 228 | |
| 13807920402 | functional fixedness | only way to do this is with this | 229 | |
| 13807920403 | Chomsky (nature or nurture?) | "born with language" (nature) | 230 | |
| 13807920404 | Skinner (nature or nurture?) | language is learned (nurture) | 231 | |
| 13807920405 | grammar is _________ | universal | 232 | |
| 13807920406 | phonemes | smallest sound unit | 233 | |
| 13807920407 | morphemes | smallest meaning unit | 234 |
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Week 11 Vocabulary - AP Language and Composition Flashcards
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| 14562179920 | criterion | (n.) a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation | 0 | |
| 14562179921 | crux | most important point; essential part | 1 | |
| 14562181403 | deduce | To draw a conclusion from fact; to infer | 2 | |
| 14562183360 | dilemma | a situation that requires a person to decide between two equally attractive or equally unattractive alternatives | 3 | |
| 14562184478 | dogmatic | asserting opinions as if they were facts; opinionated; asserted without proof; doctrinaire | 4 | |
| 14562185131 | eclectic | choosing from various sources | 5 | |
| 14562186889 | fallacious | based on a fallacy (erroneous idea); misleading; deceptive | 6 | |
| 14562187778 | fallible | capable of being wrong, mistaken, or inaccurate | 7 | |
| 14562189106 | hypothetical | (adj.) supposed or assumed true, but unproven | 8 | |
| 14562190563 | indubitable | certain; incontrovertible; indisputable (ant. questionable; doubtful) | 9 | |
| 14562191093 | orthodox | generally accepted, especially in religion; conventional; approved | 10 | |
| 14562191750 | plausible | (adj.) appearing true, reasonable, or fair | 11 | |
| 14562193248 | preposterous | senseless; absurd; irrational | 12 |
AP World History Vocab 1 , 2, & 3 Flashcards
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| 16042891235 | after-life | Life after death | 0 | |
| 16042891236 | kin / kinship | a person's relatives collectively; a relative | 1 | |
| 16042891237 | agrarian | relating to advancement of agriculture | 2 | |
| 16042891238 | mandate (v. & n.) | a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative | 3 | |
| 16042891239 | ancient | very old | 4 | |
| 16042891240 | maritime | connected with the sea in relation to navigation, shipping, etc | 5 | |
| 16042891241 | archaeology | study of historic or prehistoric people. Ancient history | 6 | |
| 16042891242 | merchant | A person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader | 7 | |
| 16042891243 | border (national) | line that separates one country, state, or province from another | 8 | |
| 16042891244 | minister | a person authorized to conduct religious worship; government official | 9 | |
| 16042891245 | city-state | a sovereign state consisting of an autonomous city with its dependencies | 10 | |
| 16042891246 | monastery / monastic | a house or place of residence occupied by a community of persons, especially monks, living in seclusion under religious vows | 11 | |
| 16042891247 | civilization / civilized | an advanced state of human society in which a high level of culture, science, industry, and government has been reached | 12 | |
| 16042891248 | monsoon | the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter | 13 | |
| 16042891249 | classical | conforming to ancient Greek and Roman models in literature or art, or to later systems modeled upon them. | 14 | |
| 16042891250 | nation-state | a state in which the great majority shares the same culture and are conscious of it | 15 | |
| 16042891251 | convert (v. & n.) | to cause to adopt a different religion, political doctrine, opinion, etc.: | 16 | |
| 16042891252 | nomad / nomadic | a person or tribe that has no permanent home and moves from place to place | 17 | |
| 16042891253 | causation | the action of causing or producing. | 18 | |
| 16042891254 | oracle | any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication | 19 | |
| 16042891255 | circa | about: (used especially in) approximate dates: | 20 | |
| 16042891256 | deity | a god; a divine being | 21 | |
| 16042891257 | divine | of, from, or like God or a god. | 22 | |
| 16042891258 | Dynasty | a powerful family or group of rulers that maintains its position or power for some time | 23 | |
| 16042891259 | egalitarian | promoting equal rights for all people | 24 | |
| 16042891260 | Empire | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, especially an emperor or empress. | 25 | |
| 16042891261 | frame of reference | a set of criteria or stated values in relation to which measurements or judgments can be made | 26 | |
| 16042891262 | frontier | a zone where no state exercises complete political control | 27 | |
| 16042891263 | hierarchy | a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority. | 28 | |
| 16042891264 | Historiography | The principles, methods, and philosophical issues of historical research | 29 | |
| 16042891265 | Ideology | a system of social or political ideas | 30 | |
| 16042891266 | incarnate, Incarnation | embodied in human form | 31 | |
| 16042891267 | indigenous | originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. | 32 |
AP Literature Oedipus Rex Test Flashcards
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| 14790609982 | Apollo | greek/roman god of music and poetry, sunlight, prophecies | 0 | |
| 14790612908 | Delphi | ancient Greek city located on the southern slopes of Mt. Parnassus; sacred to Apollo | 1 | |
| 14790617023 | Oracle | a priest/priestess who acts as a medium through whom advice/prophecy was saught from the gods | 2 | |
| 14790621241 | Dionysus | ancient Greek god of wine/wine making, fertility, theater, etc. | 3 | |
| 14790627769 | Thebes | ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile | 4 | |
| 14790632463 | he'd kill his father and marry his mother | Prophecy of Oedipus | 5 | |
| 14790642939 | a man unkowingly kills his father and marries his mother | the tragedy in Oedipus | 6 | |
| 14790649675 | reversal, recognition, hubris, hamartia, catharsis, dramatic unities | Aristotle's 6 rules of tragedy | 7 | |
| 14790652780 | reversal | the turning point in the play | 8 | |
| 14790655736 | when the messeneger arrives from Corinth | the reversal in Oedipus | 9 | |
| 14790658947 | recognition | when the tragic hero discovers / realizes the truth | 10 | |
| 14790664304 | when Oedipus realizes he's fulfilled the prophecy | the recognition in Oedipus | 11 | |
| 14790666466 | hubris | excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy | 12 | |
| 14790686993 | his hubris | Oedipus' tragic flaw | 13 | |
| 14790686994 | hamartia | a character's downfall caused by their tragic flaw | 14 | |
| 14790698214 | Oedipus fulfilling the prophecy | hamartia in Oedipus | 15 | |
| 14790701746 | catharsis | feelings of pity that cleanse the audience's emotions | 16 | |
| 14790704524 | the audience pity's Oedipus | catharsis in Oedipus | 17 | |
| 14790713937 | time, place, action | the three dramatic unities | 18 | |
| 14790713938 | a single day | how long is the setting of a tragedy usually | 19 | |
| 14790721748 | single location | how many locations does the tragedy usually take place | 20 | |
| 14790725432 | one plot; no subplots | how many plots should the tragedy have | 21 | |
| 14790729387 | orchestra | circular level space where the chorus would dance, sing, and interact with the actors | 22 | |
| 14790733829 | theatron | seating section in theaters. semi-circular rows increasing in height | 23 | |
| 14790738982 | skene | structure at the back of the stage like a tent | 24 | |
| 14790741845 | parados | entrance affording access either to the stage or to the orchestra | 25 | |
| 14790744865 | prologue | a separate introductory section | 26 | |
| 14790744866 | parode | the first song sung by the chorus | 27 | |
| 14790749033 | episode | coherent narrative unit within a larger dramatic work | 28 | |
| 14790751966 | stasimon | stationary song composed of strophes and antistrophes | 29 | |
| 14790754573 | exode | the catastrophe/conclusion of a play | 30 |
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