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AMSCO AP US History Chapter 9 Flashcards
AMSCO United States History 2015 Edition, Chapter 9 Sectionalism, 1820-1860
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| 11499863267 | Northeast | In the early 19th century, the area which included New England and the Middle Atlantic states. (p. 173) |  | 0 |
| 11499863293 | Old Northwest | In the early 19th century, the territory which stretched from Ohio to Minnesota. (p. 173) |  | 1 |
| 11499863294 | sectionalism | Loyalty to a particular region of the country. (p. 173) |  | 2 |
| 11499863295 | Nativists | Native-born Americans who reacted strongly against the immigrants, they feared the newcomers would take their jobs and weaken the culture of the Protestant and Anglo majority. (p. 176) |  | 3 |
| 11499863296 | American party | In the early 1850s, this party which opposed immigrants, nominated candidates for office. They were also called the Know-Nothing party. (p. 176) |  | 4 |
| 11499863268 | Supreme Order of the Star-Spangled Banner | A secret anti-foreign society in the 1840s. In the 1850s the society turned to politics by forming the American party. (p. 176) |  | 5 |
| 11499863270 | Free African Americans | By 1860 as many as 250,000 African Americans in the South were free citizens. Most of them lived in the cities where they could own property. However, they were not allowed to vote or work in most skilled professions. (p. 179) |  | 6 |
| 11499863271 | planters | The South's small wealthy elite that owned more than 100 slaves and more than 1000 acres. (p. 180) |  | 7 |
| 11499863272 | Codes of Chivalry | The Southern aristocratic planter class ascribed to a code of chivalrous conduct, which included a strong sense of personal honor, defense of womanhood, paternalistic attitudes toward all who were deemed inferior. (p. 180) |  | 8 |
| 11499863273 | poor whites | The term for the three-fourths of the South's white population who owned no slaves. (p. 180) |  | 9 |
| 11499863274 | hillbillies | Derisive term for poor white subsistence farmers, they often lived in the hills and farmed less productive land. (p. 180) |  | 10 |
| 11499863297 | mountain men | In the 1820s, these were the earliest white people in the Rocky Mountains. They trapped for furs and served as guides for settlers traveling to the West coast. (p. 181) |  | 11 |
| 11499863275 | the West | The term that referred to the new area that was being settled, the location changed as the white settlements moved westward. (p. 181) |  | 12 |
| 11499863276 | the frontier | The area that was newly settled in the West, it moved further west over time. (p. 181) |  | 13 |
| 11499863277 | Deep South | The cotton rich area of the lower Mississippi Valley. (p. 178) |  | 14 |
| 11499863298 | American Indian removal | By 1850, most American Indians were living west of the Mississippi River. The Great Plains provide temporary relief from white settlers encroaching on their territory. (p. 181) |  | 15 |
| 11499863299 | Great Plains | Native Americans in this area used the horse to hunt buffalo. Tribes such as the Cheyenne and the Sioux, became nomadic hunters following the buffalo herds. (p. 181) |  | 16 |
| 11499863278 | white settlers | In the 1840s and 1850s, they settled the Western frontier. They worked hard, lived in log cabins or sod huts. Disease and malnutrition were even greater dangers than attacks by American Indians. (p. 182) |  | 17 |
| 11499863279 | urbanization | Early 19th century urban working class neighborhoods featured crowded housing, poor sanitation, infectious diseases, and high rates of crime. (p. 174) |  | 18 |
| 11499863280 | urban life | The North's urban population grew from about 5 percent of the population in 1800 to 15 percent by 1850. (p. 174) |  | 19 |
| 11499863281 | new cities | After 1820, Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis developed as transportation points for shipping agricultural products to the East, and receiving manufactured goods from the East. (p. 175) |  | 20 |
| 11499863300 | Irish potato famine | From 1820 to 1860, almost 2 million immigrants came from Ireland. Most of them were tenant farmers driven from their homeland by potato crop failures. (p. 176) |  | 21 |
| 11499863282 | Roman Catholic | Most of the Irish were this religion and they faced strong discrimination because of it. (p. 176) |  | 22 |
| 11499863283 | Tammany Hall | a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York city (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism, th most notorious political machine; Marcy Tweed also know as Boss Tweed became head in 1863 |  | 23 |
| 11499863284 | Germans | In the 1840s and 1850s, because of economic hardship and the failure of democratic revolutions, one million of these people came to the United States. They often established homesteads in the Old Northwest and generally prospered. (p. 176) |  | 24 |
| 11499863285 | immigration | From the 1830s to the 1850s, four million people came from northern Europe to the United States. (p. 175) |  | 25 |
| 11499863301 | King Cotton | By the 1850s, this agricultural product was by far the South's most important economic force. (p. 177) |  | 26 |
| 11499863302 | Eli Whitney | The United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin, which made cotton affordable throughout the world. (p. 178) |  | 27 |
| 11499863303 | peculiar institution | A term that referred to slavery because many southern whites were uneasy with the fact that slaves were human beings yet treated so unfairly. Some used historical and religious arguments to support their claim that it was good for both slave and master. (p. 178) |  | 28 |
| 11499863304 | Denmark Vesey | In 1822, he led a major slave uprising which was quickly and violently suppressed. However, it gave hope to enslaved African Americans, drove Southern states to tighten already strict slave codes, and demonstrated to many the evils of slavery. (p. 179) |  | 29 |
| 11499863305 | Nat Turner | In 1831, he led a major slave uprising. (p. 179) |  | 30 |
| 11499863286 | slave codes | In parts of the Deep South, slaves made up nearly 75 percent of the population. Fearing slave revolts, laws were passed which restricted blacks movements and education. (p. 178) |  | 31 |
| 11499863306 | Industrial Revolution | Originally this revolution was centered in the textile industry, but by the 1830's, northern factories were producing a wide range of goods - everything from farm implements to clocks and shoes. (p. 174) |  | 32 |
| 11499863287 | unions | For a brief period in the 1830s an increasing number of urban workers joined unions and participated in strikes. (p. 174) |  | 33 |
| 11499863288 | Commonwealth v. Hunt | In 1842, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that peaceful unions had the right to negotiate labor contracts with employers. (p. 174) |  | 34 |
| 11499863289 | ten-hour workday | During the 1840s and 1850s, most northern state legislatures passed laws establishing a ten-hour workday for industrial workers. (p. 174) |  | 35 |
| 11499863307 | Cyrus McCormick | United States inventor and manufacturer of a mechanical reaper, which made farms more efficient. (p. 175) |  | 36 |
| 11499863308 | John Deere | United States inventor of the steel plow, which made farms more efficient. (p. 175) |  | 37 |
| 11499863290 | environmental damage | This term, described what occurred when settlers cleared forests and exhausted the soil. (p. 182) |  | 38 |
| 11499863291 | extinction | This term, described what trappers and hunters did to the beaver and buffalo populations. (p. 182) |  | 39 |
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AP Government Chapter 3 Flashcards
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| 14789744244 | $4 trillion | Amount of money the federal government spends a year. | 0 | |
| 14789748094 | $3 billion | Amount of money state governments spend per year. | 1 | |
| 14789755756 | Medicaid | A federal and state assistance program that pays for health care services for people who cannot afford them. | 2 | |
| 14789759329 | National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius 2012 | Cheif Justice Roberts held that individual mandate was constitutional because it could be constructed as a tax. Medicaid expansion ordered unconstitutional. | 3 | |
| 14789782349 | King v. Burwell | The Court ruled on whether the federal government could issue subsidies only for health insurance purchased on state or federal exchanges. | 4 | |
| 14789803401 | federalism | Government authority shared by national and local governments | 5 | |
| 14789805852 | Sovereignty | ultimate political power, having the final say in a system. | 6 | |
| 14789815398 | unitary system | System of government in which all power is invested in a national government like in France. | 7 | |
| 14789823303 | confederation or confederal system | A system in which the state governments are sovereign and the national government may do only what the states permit. Like under the Articles | 8 | |
| 14789827016 | federal system | the sharing of power between the central and state governments. U.S. now | 9 | |
| 14789843089 | Tenth Amendment | Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. | 10 | |
| 14789851747 | Elastic Language | The Congress shall have Power ... To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers | 11 | |
| 14789854279 | Alexander Hamilton | thought national government was superior in political affairs. | 12 | |
| 14789861580 | Thomas Jefferson | thought the people were the supreme authority, though federal government was still important. | 13 | |
| 14789868073 | James Madison | Thought the states rights were of uptmost importance. | 14 | |
| 14789877575 | Justice Marshall | Defended the national supremecy view. Chief justice from 1801-1835. | 15 | |
| 14789888345 | McCulloch v. Maryland | Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law | 16 | |
| 14789892780 | Necessary and Proper Clause | Section of the Constitution allowing Congress to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to its duties, and which has permitted Congress to exercise powers not specifically given to it (enumerated) by the Constitution. | 17 | |
| 14789899018 | Nullification | The doctrine that a state can declare null and void a federal law that, in the state's opinion, violates the Constitution. | 18 | |
| 14789902114 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional. | 19 | |
| 14789908500 | John C. Calhoun | South Carolina Senator - advocate for state's rights, limited government, and nullification | 20 | |
| 14789911992 | Commerce Clause | The clause in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations. | 21 | |
| 14789914463 | Dual Federalism | Doctrine holding that the national government is supreme in its sphere, the states are supreme in theirs, and the two spheres should be kept separate | 22 | |
| 14789917621 | interstate commerce | trade between two or more states, lottery, liquor, transport. | 23 | |
| 14789919887 | intrastate commerce | commerce conducted wholly within one state, manufacturing, insurance, farming. | 24 | |
| 14789934913 | Elementary and Secondary Education Act | 1965 - Provided federal funding for primary and secondary education and was meant to improve the education of poor people. This was the first federal program to fund education. | 25 | |
| 14789937571 | No Child Left Behind Act | A U.S. law enacted in 2001 that was intended to increase accountability in education by requiring states to qualify for federal educational funding by administering standardized tests to measure school achievement. | 26 | |
| 14789939637 | Obama's Race to the Top | Goal of aiding states with various components of NCLB by offering grants to states to improve student outcomes and close achievement gaps | 27 | |
| 14789942293 | Cooperative Federalism | Idea that the federal and state governments share power in many policy areas | 28 | |
| 14789950096 | United States v. Lopez (1995) | Commerce clause of Constitution does not give Congress the power to regulate guns near state-operated schools | 29 | |
| 14789954541 | Violence Against Women Act | increased federal resources to apprehend and prosecute men guilty of violent acts against women | 30 | |
| 14789958098 | United States v. Morrison (2000) | Congress DOES NOT have the authority to enact the Violence Against Women Act of 1994 under either the Commerce Clause. Justice Rehnquist. | 31 | |
| 14789968565 | Printz v. United States | (1997) the Court found that Congress lacks the authority to compel state officers to execute federal laws, specifically relating to background checks on handgun purchasers. | 32 | |
| 14789970998 | Alden v. Maine | State employees could not sue to force state compliance with federal fair-labor laws. | 33 | |
| 14789977730 | Federal Maritime Commission v. South Carolina Ports Authority | the court further expanded states sovereign immunity from private lawsuits. | 34 | |
| 14789988483 | Saenz v. Roe | The Court held the state law that limited the amount of welfare benefits averrable to newly arrived residents was unconstitutional under the privileges or immunities clause because the right to travel/relocate is protected by the clause. | 35 | |
| 14789992668 | Gonzales v. Raich | (2005) The regulation (ban on homegrown medical marajuana) is squarely within Congress' commerce power because production of the commodity meant for home consumption, id criminalized. | 36 | |
| 14790003058 | Arizona v. United States | The Court sided with the federal government and enumerated rights. Federal government could only regulate immigration laws. | 37 | |
| 14790007837 | Oberfell v. Hodges | legalized gay marriage | 38 | |
| 14790014057 | Wilson | said federalism is at the heart of american politics. | 39 | |
| 14790221369 | Hurrican Katrina (2005) | Natural disaster that let to fighting over which level of government should act on relief support. | 40 | |
| 14790228664 | Federal Emergency Management Administration | An independent agency of the United States government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities. Slow in response to katrina. | 41 | |
| 14790239758 | william riker | Individual who argues the main effect of federalism since the Civil War has been to perpetuate racism. Condemns federalism. | 42 | |
| 14790251231 | Daniel Elazar | Individual who argues federalism has contributed to political flexibility and individual liberty. Praises federalism. | 43 | |
| 14790270943 | California Constitution | 12 Year term for Supreme Court justices, greater details, greater degree of voter control, in both Houses, representation is based on districts that are determined by size of population, senators serve four year terms. Explixit rights to privacy | 44 | |
| 14790278402 | Laboratories of Democracy | idea that different states can implement different policies, and the successful ones will spread | 45 | |
| 14790285180 | Initiative | process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on the ballot | 46 | |
| 14790285181 | Referendum | procedure enabling voters to reject a measure passed by the legislature | 47 | |
| 14790288694 | recall | procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office | 48 | |
| 14790292299 | Gray Davis | Governor who was voted out of office in a recall election in 2003, replaced with arnold schwartzenahger. | 49 | |
| 14790782380 | grants-in-aid | money given by the national government to the states | 50 | |
| 14790788120 | land grant | a grant of land by the federal government, especially for roads, railroads, or agricultural colleges | 51 | |
| 14790798011 | $624 billion | amount of money the federal government gave the states as grants-in-aid. | 52 | |
| 14790809906 | Department of Homeland Security | US federal agency created in 2002 to coordinate national efforts against terrorism. After 9/11 | 53 | |
| 14790820177 | grand folks county | recipient of programs to purchase biochemical suits. | 54 | |
| 14790837201 | intergovernmental lobby | An interest group made up of mayors, governors, and other state and local officials who depend on federal funds | 55 | |
| 14790837202 | Big 7 | - U.S. Conference of Mayors - National Governors Association - National Association of Counties - National League of Cities - Council of State Governments - International City/County Management Association - National Conference of State Legislatures | 56 | |
| 14790845409 | $70 million | Amount of money spent on lobbying in congress | 57 | |
| 14790848760 | categorical grants | Federal grants for specific purposes, such as building an airport. Continueing to grow | 58 | |
| 14790848761 | block grants | Federal grants given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs in areas such as community development and social services, CETA | 59 | |
| 14790867443 | conditions of aid | terms set by the national government that states must meet if they are to receive certain federal funds | 60 | |
| 14790869577 | Mandates | terms set by the national government that states must meet whether or not they accept federal grants | 61 | |
| 14790880441 | Waiver | a decision by an administrative agency granting some other part permission to violate a law or rule that would otherwise apply to it | 62 | |
| 14790886379 | Permissive federalism | Implies that although federalism provides "a sharing of power and authority between the national and state governments, the state's share rests upon the permission and permissiveness of the national government." | 63 | |
| 14790892757 | Ronald Reagan | Asked congress to consolidate categorical grants into 6 block grants to cut federal funding. | 64 | |
| 14790904024 | Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) | Federal funds for children in families that fall below state standards of need. In 1996, Congress abolished AFDC, the largest federal cash transfer program, and replaced it with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant-Bill Clinton | 65 | |
| 14790910193 | Devolution | the transfer of powers and responsibilities from the federal government to the states by Clinton. Failed | 66 | |
| 14790919782 | Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | The US federal agency with a mission to protect human health and the environment. Several states sued in an effort for fossil fuel regulation. | 67 |
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AP Language Vocab #3 Flashcards
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| 15206724369 | Abysmal | adj. extremely bad | 0 | |
| 15206729058 | Bolster | v. to support, strengthen, or fortify | 1 | |
| 15206734531 | Clout | n. special advantage or power | 2 | |
| 15206739770 | Demur | v. to object to | 3 | |
| 15206744835 | Empirical | adj. derived from experience, observation, or an experiment | 4 | |
| 15206750772 | Fiscal | adj. related to (government) money | 5 | |
| 15206776139 | Germane | adj. relevant and appropriate | 6 | |
| 15206780218 | Hegemony | n. the dominance or leadership of one social group over another | 7 | |
| 15206783058 | Imprudent | adj. not cautious or prudent; rash | 8 | |
| 15206787588 | Jingoism | n. extreme patriotism, especially in the form of aggressive or warlike foreign policy | 9 | |
| 15206791328 | Ken | n. the range of what can know or understand | 10 | |
| 15206795064 | Lucrative | adj. capable of making a lot of money; profitable | 11 | |
| 15206799723 | Malleable | adj. capable of being molded or changed | 12 | |
| 15206803345 | Nuance | n. a subtle difference in meaning | 13 | |
| 15206807762 | Opine | v. to openly express an opinion | 14 | |
| 15206814659 | Pragmatic | adj. practical, useful | 15 | |
| 15206818963 | Quantitative | adj. involving quantities (numbers and amounts) | 16 | |
| 15206823099 | Repudiate | "v. to refuse to recognize as true v. to cast off" | 17 | |
| 15206827090 | Scrupulous | adj. paying great attention to detail | 18 | |
| 15206832028 | Teeming | adj. abundantly filled (usu. with living organisms) | 19 | |
| 15206837333 | Unmitigated | adj. downright, utter, total | 20 | |
| 15206840967 | Vacuous | adj. devoid of intelligence | 21 | |
| 15206845025 | Whimsical | adj. determined by chance or irmpluse rather than by necessity | 22 | |
| 15206849243 | Xenophobia | n. a fear of foreigners or strangers | 23 | |
| 15206854335 | Yeoman | n. a free man who tends his own field | 24 | |
| 15206858286 | Zenith | n. the time at which something is most powerful or successful | 25 |
AP Language and Composition Terms Flashcards
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| 14956068209 | Chaismus | grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words Ex: "And so, my fellow citizens, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" | 0 | |
| 14956077557 | Anithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas Ex: "Our knowledge separates as well as unites; our orders disintegrate as well as bind; our art brings us together as well as sets us apart" | 1 | |
| 14956094779 | Asyndeton | conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose of writing Ex: "I came, I saw, I conquered" "We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground" | 2 | |
| 14956107910 | Polysndeton | The use of many conjunctions to make the writing slower and more methodical Ex: "when the older boys played their mandolins and the girls sang and....and....and" | 3 | |
| 14956121073 | Parallelism | expresses similar or related ideas in similar grammatical structures Ex: I read, slept, and ran I went biking, hiking, and running | 4 | |
| 14956126739 | Apposition | The placing next to a noun or noun phrase that further explains it (nonessential information) Ex: Rhea, the girl who hated homework, went to sleep. | 5 | |
| 14998723657 | Trope | Not one rhetorical strategy, but a category of many. They involve changes to the meanings of words or phrases. Ex: pun, metaphor simile, personification, etc. | 6 | |
| 14998732129 | scheme | Not one rhetorical strategy, but a category of many. These are alterations to the arrangements and structure of the words, ideas, or phrases. Ex: parallelism, apposition, chiasmus, anaphora, etc. | 7 | |
| 14998746824 | Loose sentences | when the main idea comes first, and the subordinate clause is at the end of the sentence. any supplementary info or modifiers can be stopped at various points and still be a complete sentence. Ex: He decided to study English even though his passion was farming. | 8 | |
| 14998759032 | periodic sentence | main idea comes after, subordinate Claus comes first. subject is not known till the end of the sentence. Ex: Even though his passion was farming he decided to study English. | 9 | |
| 14998788295 | Balanced Sentence | Sentence is made up of two segments that are equal, not only in length, but also in grammatical structure, meaning, and importance. Ex: Every man has the right to utter what he thinks is truth, and every other man has the right to knock him down for it. Two independent clauses and two subordinate clauses are balanced. | 10 | |
| 15033421726 | Zeugma | use of a word to govern two or more words when it is appropiate to only one of them or is appropriate to each in different ways. Ex: -He held his temper, and her hand -You are free to execute your laws and citizens as you wish -On his fishing trip, he caught three trouts and a cold *Trout and cold do not have anything to do with each other, they are used in completely different ways. | 11 | |
| 15033511544 | Anastrophe | Word order (syntax) in a sentence or clause is rearranged from the usual. Ex: Above the people he stood *Instead of he stood above the people Ex: Into the lake jumped the dog *Instead of the dog jumped into the lake | 12 | |
| 15033553965 | Hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration for emphasis "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets" | 13 | |
| 15033587758 | Symbolism | A literal and sensuous quality or item representing an abstract or suggestive aspect Three types of symbolism: Conventional-Cross is a symbol of Christianity. Many societies believe this. If someone were to carry the cross around, everyone would know what it represents. Natural-Light=truth (the item naturally contains the quality it symbolizes) Light is part of nature. Private-The Scarlet Letter (this is only a meaning for some or a single society) another example would be the Rutgers symbol. | 14 | |
| 15371015607 | Anadiplosis | the rhetorical repetition of the word or phrase that ends one phrase at the beginning of the next phrase. Ex: Spare me your words; words are not what I need" | 15 | |
| 15371034264 | Polyptoton | rhetorical repetition of the same word root in which the word is repeated in different case, numbers, genders, parts of speech, and the like. Ex: "Love is not love which alters when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove." | 16 | |
| 15371308095 | Tone | a writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject and the audience. TO MISINTERPRET TONE IS TO MISINTERPRET MEANING | 17 | |
| 15371342424 | Personification | attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects, abstract ideas, or non-human forms. "High blood pressure (non-human) snatches the lives of many people" | 18 | |
| 15371369506 | Pathetic Fallacy | The attribution of human qualities to FORCES OF NATURE "In contrast to the roaring of the hurricane, the breezes in the eye of the storm barely whispered to the frightened trailer, court residents huddled beneath the jammed storm cellar door" | 19 | |
| 15371425966 | Apostrophe | The addressing of the absent as present of the inanimate or inhuman as if it could hear or understand. Ex: "Rain, rain, go away!" "O Bird! Sing to my heart an anthem!" "Oh George! I wish you could see your son now!" (George is dead) | 20 | |
| 15371466256 | Allusion | a reference to some familiar event in history or to some familiar expression or character in literature, the Bible (biblical allusion0, or mythology Ex: "Homework is my Achilles heel" "The running back went down like Kennedy in Dallas" "Nice boat, Noah" | 21 | |
| 15371517179 | Synecdoche | "Understanding of one thing for another", phrasing that substitutes a part for the whole or the whole for the part Ex: "Dad bought me a new set of wheels for my birthday" (car) "His shoes were untied so he tripped over them" (laces) "The brasses use lip vibrations the way the strings use friction to produce their sounds" | 22 | |
| 15487321335 | rhetorical question | trope that is commonly defined as a question that does not require an answer | 23 | |
| 15487321336 | Asking the reader | question is addressed to the audience prompting them to consider the answer What would u have done under the same circumstances? | 24 | |
| 15487321337 | Asking the writer | question is addressed or self addressed to the reader as a way of thinking through an idea with the audience my grandma died of a heart attack, but is that really the reason she died? | 25 | |
| 15487321338 | criticizing | The writer is making a criticism in the form of a question How can the citizens in a democracy fail to vote? | 26 | |
| 15487321339 | asking and answering aka hypophora | writer asks a question and then proceeds to answer it Why has the incidence of rape increased in our society? studies show it is a portrayal of violence on TV | 27 | |
| 15487321340 | Colloquialism | use of informal, conversational worlds or phrases, sometimes varying from region to region, in place of formal, literary diction "because of his wealthy upbringing, baron found it difficult to speak in the colloquial dialect used by the kids in the public school" "he's gonna grab a cold pop from the fridge" "it's a wicked hot day so we're not going outside til'later" | 28 | |
| 15487321341 | Jargon | language broadly associated with a subject, occupation, or business. the use of specific words or phrases in a particular situation, profession, or trade. can be used to show the writer's knowledge or dexterity on various spheres "lots of airlines are buying smaller twins to fly long and skinny trans cons" "his counsel sought damages and various forms of equitable relief, including an injunction" | 29 |
AP Language Vocab I Flashcards
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| 14843825030 | Alacrity | Quick willingness, briskness, eagerness. | 0 | |
| 14843825031 | Allusion | A reference to another work of literature, person, or event; A cultural reference. | 1 | |
| 14843825032 | Analogous | Similar in certain qualities; comparable. | 2 | |
| 14843825033 | Cacophony | Discord; harsh sound | 3 | |
| 14843825034 | Chicanery | Low trickery or unfair practice. | 4 | |
| 14843825035 | Compunction | Uneasiness of the mind. | 5 | |
| 14843825036 | Cumbersome | Clumsy, hard to handle. | 6 | |
| 14843825037 | Didactic | Designed to teach; to impart a lesson. | 7 | |
| 14843825038 | Dither | A confused, excited emotion. | 8 | |
| 14843825039 | Dolorous | Expressing sorrow, mournful. | 9 | |
| 14843825040 | Dour | Stern, severe, or gloomy. | 10 | |
| 14843825041 | Heyday | The period of greatest strength, prosperity, or hapiness. | 11 | |
| 14843825042 | Iconoclast | A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions. | 12 | |
| 14843825043 | Impel | To urge or drive forward. | 13 | |
| 14843825044 | Parallelism | A writing technique using similar grammatical form of sentence pattern to express idea of equal importance. | 14 | |
| 14843825045 | Paraphrase | To restate someone's else idea in simpler word. | 15 | |
| 14843825046 | Pariah | A social outcast. | 16 | |
| 14843825047 | Perfunctory | Done without care; in a routine fashion. | 17 | |
| 14843825048 | Sardonic | Bitterly sarcastic; mocking. | 18 | |
| 14843825049 | Undulating | Moving with a wave-like motion. | 19 | |
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