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AP language Flashcards
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| 12188137170 | Disparage (v) | to degrade, to speak about someone/something in his derogatory way. | 0 | |
| 12188137171 | Disparity (noun) | inequality, the fact of being unequal in age, rank, or degrees | 1 | |
| 12188137172 | Embellish (v) | to decorate, to make pretty with ornamentation | 2 | |
| 12188137173 | Engender (v) | to cause, produce | 3 | |
| 12188137174 | innocuous (adj) | harmless, producing no injury | 4 | |
| 12188137175 | insipid (adj) | boring or stupid | 5 | |
| 12188137176 | Lament | a passionate expression of grief or sorrow | 6 | |
| 12188137177 | Taciturn | quiet, not talkative | 7 | |
| 12188137178 | Altruistic (adj) | unselfish, concerned with the welfare of others | 8 | |
| 12188137179 | ambivalent | having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone | 9 | |
| 12188137180 | Angular | lean; sharp cornered; gaunt | 10 | |
| 12188137181 | arrogant | overbearingly assuming; insolently proud | 11 | |
| 12188137182 | aversion | strong dislike | 12 | |
| 12188137183 | discern | to differentiate between two or more things | 13 | |
| 12188137184 | disdain (n) | intense dislike, to reject as unworthy | 14 | |
| 12188137185 | Superfluous (adj) | overflow; more than enough; an overabundance; more than required | 15 | |
| 12188137186 | Laud | to praise | 16 | |
| 12188137187 | obscure | difficult to understand; partially hidden | 17 | |
| 12188137188 | ostentatious | showy, pretentious | 18 | |
| 12188137189 | Prodigal (adj) | wasteful, an extravagant person | 19 | |
| 12188137190 | repudiate | to disown, reject, or deny the validity of | 20 | |
| 12188137191 | Reticence | restraint in speech, reluctance to speak | 21 | |
| 12188137192 | revere | To honor, to regard with respect | 22 | |
| 12188137193 | Serene (adj) | calm | 23 | |
| 12188137194 | subtle (adj) | delicate, not obvious. | 24 | |
| 12188137195 | Antithesis | a direct opposite, a contrast | 25 | |
| 12188137196 | ascend | to move upward, to rise from a lower station | 26 | |
| 12188137197 | Austere (adj) | strict, stern; unadorned | 27 | |
| 12188137198 | autonomous | independent, self-contained | 28 | |
| 12188137199 | Banal (adj) | common, ordinary, lacking freshness | 29 | |
| 12188137200 | Benign | Harmless | 30 | |
| 12188137201 | capricious | changing suddenly, fickle | 31 | |
| 12188137202 | dawdle | to waste time | 32 |
Chemical Reactions - Pre-AP Flashcards
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| 15477660298 | precipitate | Solid substance produced from 2 liquids during a chemical reaction. Sign of a chemical reaction. |  | 0 |
| 15477660299 | bubbles | Gas given off during a chemical reaction. May or may not have an odor. Sign of a chemical reaction. |  | 1 |
| 15477660300 | signs of a chemical reaction | change in temperature, formation of bubbles (gas), precipitate forms, color change, change in smell, difficult to reverse |  | 2 |
| 15477660301 | subscript | Number written after and BELOW an element in a chemical formula telling you how many of the preceding element are needed for that compound or molecule. |  | 3 |
| 15477660303 | chemical change | Chemical reaction; when substances interact with each other and new substances are formed. |  | 4 |
| 15477660304 | physical change | When a substance changes its phase (changes to a solid, liquid , gas, or plasma) or is modified (size, shape, etc) but remains the same substance. |  | 5 |
| 15477660306 | molecule | A chemical combination of 2 or more atoms bonded together. |  | 6 |
| 15477660305 | compound | Any amount of a chemical combination of 2 or more different elements. |  | 7 |
| 15477660320 | chemical reaction | the process by which one or more substances change to produce one or more different substances |  | 8 |
| 15477660321 | chemical equation | a representation of a chemical reaction that uses symbols to show the relationship between the reactants and the products |  | 9 |
| 15477660322 | reactants | things that react together (on the left side of the equation) |  | 10 |
| 15477660323 | products | things that are produced (on the right side of the equation) | | 11 |
| 15477660310 | coefficient | numbers written in front of the element or compound to show how many molecules are present | 12 | |
| 15477660311 | conservation of mass | atoms are neither created or destroyed but only rearranged |  | 13 |
AP English Language Chapter 2 Flashcards
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| 15490201145 | Periodic Sentence | Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end. | 0 | |
| 15490218683 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea. | 1 | |
| 15490238196 | Rhetorical Question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. | 2 | |
| 15490261413 | Synedoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. | 3 | |
| 15490275315 | Catalogue | A list of things to create a rhetorical effect. | 4 | |
| 15490284020 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration used for effect or for humor. | 5 | |
| 15490315664 | Onomatopoeia | Words which suggest or sound like their meanings. | 6 | |
| 15490324025 | Paradox | A statement which seems contradictory but is actually true. | 7 | |
| 15490356804 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. | 8 | |
| 15490373829 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. | 9 | |
| 15490396353 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. | 10 | |
| 15490420045 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. | 11 | |
| 15490433172 | Archaic Diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. | 12 | |
| 15490447085 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. | 13 | |
| 15490471120 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on. | 14 | |
| 15490487585 | Imperative Sentence | Sentence used to command or enjoin. | 15 | |
| 15490493969 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order). | 16 |
Chapter 4 Ap Microeconomics Flashcards
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| 11392041070 | Deadweight loss/Excess Burden | The extra cost in the form of inefficiency that results because the tax discourse mutually beneficial transactions Connection: |  | 0 |
| 11392043445 | Incidence | A measure of who really pays a tax Connection: The incidence would explain how much of a tax is paid by the consumer or the producer, depending on the supply and demand prices after taxes. | 1 | |
| 11392046710 | Excise tax | A tax on the sales of a good or service Connection: Excise taxes are often included in the price of the product. There are also excise taxes on activities, such as on wagering or on highway usage by trucks. One of the major components of the excise program is motor fuel. | 2 | |
| 11392049348 | Quota Rent | the difference between the demand and supply price at the quota limit Connection: To calculate quota rent, first calculate the economic rent, which is the positive difference between the domestic price of the good and the free market price from around the world. | 3 | |
| 11392051849 | Wedge | the price paid by buyers ends up being higher than that received by sellers Connection: A wedge is created when a quota is put in place to lessen the amount of a good being sold, since demand price will be greater than supply price. | 4 | |
| 11392055056 | Supply price | the price at which producers will supply that quantity Connection: It is based on the opportunity cost that sellers incur in the production of the good. While a number a factors influence the supply price, quantity supplied tends to be among the most important. | 5 | |
| 11392058471 | Demand price | the price at which consumers will demand that quantity Connection: When the demand price is greater than the supply price, the amount produced tends to increase. | 6 | |
| 11392064700 | License | gives the owner the right to supply a good Connection: In order to sell alcohol, one must have a liquor license, resulting in less sales of alcohol. | 7 | |
| 11392067287 | Quota Limit | the total amount of the good that can be legally transacted Connection: Countries use quotas in international trade to help regulate the volume of trade between them and other countries. | 8 | |
| 11392071389 | Quantity control/Quota | an upper limit on the quantity of some good that can be bought or sold Connection: |  | 9 |
| 11392074007 | Inefficiently high quality | sellers offer high-quality goods at a high price, even though buyers would prefer a lower quality at a lower price Connection: Due to price floors, some prices become too high, and people don't want to spend this on items, resulting in inefficiently high quality. | 10 | |
| 11392077057 | Inefficient allocation of sales among sellers | those who would be willing to sell the good at the lowest price are not always those who manage to sell it Connection: Due to price floors, some prices become too high, and people don't want to spend this on items, resulting in inefficiently high quality. | 11 | |
| 11392079690 | Minimum wage | a legal floor on the wage rate, which is the market price of labor Connection: The minimum wage in the US $7.25 | 12 | |
| 11392082831 | Black market | a market in which goods or services are bought and sold illegally, either because it is illegal to sell them at all or because the prices charged are legally prohibited by a price ceiling Connection: Common motives for operating in black markets are to trade contraband, avoid taxes and regulations, or skirt price controls or rationing. | 13 | |
| 11392087662 | Inefficiently low quality | sellers offer low quality goods at a low price even though buyers would prefer a higher quality at a higher price Connection: Due to a price ceiling, prices are low, therefore in rent control apartments, the furniture and appliances will be low quality since the people renting the place are not paying a lot of money for it. | 14 | |
| 11392091559 | Wasted resources | people expend money, effort, and time to cope with the shortages caused by the price ceiling Connection: Businesses will waste their resources in order to try and handle a shortage, which is difficult when a price ceiling is in place. | 15 | |
| 11392094976 | Inefficient allocation to customers | People who want the good and are willing to pay a high price don't get it, and those who care relatively little about the good and are only willing to pay a low price do get it Connection: As a result of the price control, the consumer is getting hurt because of a gap between the demand and supply quantity. | 16 | |
| 11392101836 | Inefficient | A state in a market or an economy in which there are missed opportunities Connection: If people are better off from a trade it is considered inefficient. | 17 | |
| 11392105622 | Price floor | a minimum price buyers are required to pay for a good or service Connection: |  | 18 |
| 11392108218 | Price ceiling | a maximum price sellers are allowed to charge for a good Connection: |  | 19 |
| 11392113278 | Price controls | legal restrictions on how high or low a market price may go Connection: Price controls will be set by a government during a nationwide event such as a natural disaster or a war. | 20 |
AP French - Useful vocabulary for the AP Exam Conversation Flashcards
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| 9943671939 | être d'accord | to agree | 0 | |
| 9943671940 | je suis d'accord | I agree | 1 | |
| 9943671941 | nous sommes bien d'accord | we agree | 2 | |
| 9943671942 | je pense que oui | I think so | 3 | |
| 9943671943 | je le crois | I believe it | 4 | |
| 9943671944 | je veux bien | I am ok with that (I am willing/I don't mind) | 5 | |
| 9943671945 | bien sûr | of course | 6 | |
| 9943671946 | moi aussi | me too | 7 | |
| 9943671947 | moi non plus | me neither | 8 | |
| 9943671948 | c'est vrai | it's true | 9 | |
| 9943671949 | c'est certain | it's certain | 10 | |
| 9943671950 | ne pas être d'accord | to disagree | 11 | |
| 9943671951 | ah non, je ne suis pas d'accord | oh no, I disagree | 12 | |
| 9943671952 | je ne le crois pas | I don't believe it | 13 | |
| 9943671953 | je ne le pense pas | I don't think so | 14 | |
| 9943671954 | ce n'est pas vrai | it's not true | 15 | |
| 9943671955 | ce n'est pas sûr/certain | it's not sure/certain | 16 | |
| 9943671956 | non, pas du tout | not at all | 17 | |
| 9943671957 | absolument pas | absolutely not | 18 | |
| 9943671958 | exprimer de l'enthousiasme | to show enthusiasm | 19 | |
| 9943671959 | bravo! | bravo! | 20 | |
| 9943671960 | félicitations! | congratulations! | 21 | |
| 9943671961 | c'est intéressant! | that's interesting! | 22 | |
| 9943671962 | c'est génial! | it's great! | 23 | |
| 9943671963 | quelle chance! | what luck! | 24 | |
| 9943671964 | raconte-moi! | tell me! | 25 | |
| 9943671965 | exprimer de l'empathie | to show empathy | 26 | |
| 9943671966 | que c'est triste! | how sad! | 27 | |
| 9943671967 | quelle horreur! | how awful! | 28 | |
| 9943671968 | quel malheur! | what misfortune! | 29 | |
| 9943671969 | quel dommage! | too bad! | 30 | |
| 9943671970 | c'est dommage! | too bad! | 31 | |
| 9943671971 | je suis désolé(e) | I'm sorry | 32 | |
| 9943671972 | je comprends | I understand | 33 | |
| 9943671973 | exprimer la joie | to show happiness | 34 | |
| 9943671974 | je suis content(e) | I'm glad | 35 | |
| 9943671975 | je suis heureux(se) | I'm happy | 36 | |
| 9943671976 | pour toi/vous | for you | 37 | |
| 9943671977 | c'est bien! | that's good! | 38 | |
| 9943671978 | c'est cool! | that's cool! | 39 | |
| 9943671979 | formidable! | fantastic! | 40 | |
| 9943671980 | super! | super! | 41 | |
| 9943671981 | vas-y! | go for it! | 42 | |
| 9943671982 | exprimer la surprise | to show surprise | 43 | |
| 9943671983 | quoi? | what? | 44 | |
| 9943671984 | comment? | what? | 45 | |
| 9943671985 | tu plaisantes?! | are you kidding?! | 46 | |
| 9943671986 | tu blagues?! | are you joking?! | 47 | |
| 9943671987 | ce n'est pas possible! | that's not possible! | 48 | |
| 9943671988 | jamais de la vie! | never! It can't be! | 49 | |
| 9943671989 | pour confirmer | to confirm | 50 | |
| 9943671990 | ah! tu veux dire que... | oh! you mean that... | 51 | |
| 9943671991 | tu dis que... | you're saying that... | 52 | |
| 9943671992 | si je comprends bien,... | if I understand you well,... | 53 | |
| 9943671993 | mais oui, c'est bien ça | yes, that's it | 54 | |
| 9943671994 | parfait | perfect | 55 |
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AP Language & Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 10429576516 | Absolute | a word free from limitations or qualifications - best, all, none, perfect, worst | 0 | |
| 10429576517 | Abstract | Complex, discusses intangible qualities like good and evil, seldom uses examples to support its points. | 1 | |
| 10429576518 | Absurd | Extremely ridiculous or completely lacking reason; unreasonable or foolish. | 2 | |
| 10429576519 | Academic | Dry and rhetorical writing; sucking all the life out of its subject with analysis. | 3 | |
| 10429576520 | Accent | In poetry, the stressed portion of a word. | 4 | |
| 10429576521 | Active Voice | The opposite of passive voice; a sentence with an active verb. It expresses more energy and command of the essay than does the passive voice. | 5 | |
| 10429576522 | Ad hominem argument | An argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue | 6 | |
| 10429576523 | Aesthetic | Appealing to the senses; a coherent sense of taste or style. | 7 | |
| 10429576524 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself. | 8 | |
| 10429576525 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds. | 9 | |
| 10429576526 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure. | 10 | |
| 10429576527 | Ambibranch | A poetic foot -- light, heavy, light | 11 | |
| 10429576528 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage. | 12 | |
| 10429576529 | Anachronism | "Misplaced in time." An aspect of a story that doesn't belong in its supposed time setting. | 13 | |
| 10429576530 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving two or more symbolic parts, employed to clarify an action or a relationship. | 14 | |
| 10429576531 | Anapest | A poetic foot -- light, light, heavy | 15 | |
| 10429576532 | Anaphora | A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences. | 16 | |
| 10429576533 | anecdote | A short account of an interesting or humorous incident | 17 | |
| 10429576534 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to. | 18 | |
| 10429576535 | Anthimeria | substitution of one part of speech for another (for example, changing a noun into a verb) | 19 | |
| 10429576536 | Anthropomorphism | When animals are given human characteristics. Often confused with personification. | 20 | |
| 10429576537 | Anticlimax | Occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect. | 21 | |
| 10429576538 | Antihero | A protagonist who is markedly unheroic: morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavory qualities. | 22 | |
| 10429576539 | Antithesis | An opposition or contrast of ideas. Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 23 | |
| 10429576540 | antonomasia | the substitution of a title, epithet, or descriptive phrase for a proper name; example calling a lover Casanova. | 24 | |
| 10429576541 | Aphorism | A short and usually witty saying. | 25 | |
| 10429576542 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman. | 26 | |
| 10429576543 | Apotheosis | Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something. Making a God of something or someone. | 27 | |
| 10429576544 | Appositive | A noun or noun substitute that is placed directly next to the noun it is describing: My student, Sidney, makes me want to retire. | 28 | |
| 10429576545 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language. | 29 | |
| 10429576546 | Archetype | A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response | 30 | |
| 10429576547 | Argument | a statement of the meaning or main point of a literary work | 31 | |
| 10429576548 | Aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. | 32 | |
| 10429576549 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds: "Old king Cole was a merry old soul." | 33 | |
| 10429576550 | Asyndeton | The deliberate omission of conjunctions from series of related independent clauses. The effect is to create a tight, concise, and forceful sentence. | 34 | |
| 10429576551 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene | 35 | |
| 10429576552 | Attitude | A speaker's, author's, or character's disposition toward or opinion of a subject. | 36 | |
| 10429576553 | balanced sentence | a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast | 37 | |
| 10429576554 | Bathos | A false or forced emotion that is often humorous; Writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries too hard to be a tear jerker. | 38 | |
| 10429576555 | Black humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy. | 39 | |
| 10429576556 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language. | 40 | |
| 10429576557 | burlesque | ludicrous parody or grotesque caricature; humorous and provocative stage show | 41 | |
| 10429576558 | cacophony | (n) harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds | 42 | |
| 10429576559 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 43 | |
| 10429576560 | carpe diem | "Seize the day"; a Latin phrase implying that one must live for the present moment, for tomorrow may be too late. | 44 | |
| 10429576561 | Catharsis | Drawn from Aristotle's writings on tragedy. Refers to the "cleansing" of emotion an audience member experiences during a play | 45 | |
| 10429576562 | chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary."), A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") | 46 | |
| 10429576563 | chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. | 47 | |
| 10429576564 | cliché | A worn-out idea or overused expression | 48 | |
| 10429576565 | coherence | Marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts. | 49 | |
| 10429576566 | Coinage (neologism) | A new word, usually one invented on the spot. | 50 | |
| 10429576567 | Colloquial/Colloquialism | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, but give a work a conversational, familiar tone. Include local or regional dialect | 51 | |
| 10429576568 | Complex (Dense) | Suggesting that there is more than one possibility in the meaning of words. | 52 | |
| 10429576569 | Conceit (Controlling Image) | A startling or unusual metaphor, or a metaphor developed and expanded upon several lines. | 53 | |
| 10429576570 | concrete | Capable of being perceived by the senses. | 54 | |
| 10429576571 | Connotation | Everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies. | 55 | |
| 10429576572 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words (rather than at their beginnings) | 56 | |
| 10429576573 | cumulative sentence | a sentence in which the main independent clause is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases | 57 | |
| 10429576574 | Deduction | A form of reasoning that begins with a generalization, then applies the generalization to a specific case or cases. | 58 | |
| 10429576575 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | 59 | |
| 10429576576 | Diction | The words an author chooses to use. | 60 | |
| 10429576577 | Didactic | literally means "teaching." These words have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. | 61 | |
| 10429576578 | Dirge | A song for the dead. Its tone is typically slow, heavy, depressed, and melancholy | 62 | |
| 10429576579 | Dissonance | Refers to the grating of incompatible sounds. | 63 | |
| 10429576580 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme, like limericks. | 64 | |
| 10429576581 | Dominant Expression | Precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable. | 65 | |
| 10429576582 | Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | 66 | |
| 10429576583 | Dramatic Monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience. | 67 | |
| 10429576584 | Elegiac | Expressing sorrow or lamentation; a work that has a mournful quality. | 68 | |
| 10429576585 | Elements | Basic techniques of each genre of literature | 69 | |
| 10429576586 | epigram | A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement. | 70 | |
| 10429576587 | epiphany | A moment of sudden revelation or insight | 71 | |
| 10429576588 | epiplexis | (1) A rhetorical term for asking questions to rebuke or reproach rather than to elicit answers; (2) More broadly, a form of argument in which a speaker attempts to shame an opponent into adopting a particular point of view. | 72 | |
| 10429576589 | Epistrophe | ending of a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. | 73 | |
| 10429576590 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. | 74 | |
| 10429576591 | Ethos | Appeals to an audience's sense of ethics/morality/trust; Achieved by projecting an image of credibility which supports the speaker's position. | 75 | |
| 10429576592 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. | 76 | |
| 10429576593 | euphony | A succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose; the opposite of cacophony. | 77 | |
| 10429576594 | Explicit | To say or write something directly and clearly. | 78 | |
| 10429576595 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. | 79 | |
| 10429576596 | Fallacy | A failure of logical reasoning. Appear to make an argument reasonable, but falsely so. | 80 | |
| 10429576597 | Farce | Extremely broad humor; in earlier times, a funny play or a comedy. | 81 | |
| 10429576598 | Feminine rhyme | Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. Properly, the penultimate syllables are stressed and the final syllables are unstressed. | 82 | |
| 10429576599 | Figurative Language | Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid | 83 | |
| 10429576600 | Figure of speech | A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things. | 84 | |
| 10429576601 | First person | A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view. | 85 | |
| 10429576602 | flat character | a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop throughout the story | 86 | |
| 10429576603 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. | 87 | |
| 10429576604 | foreshadowing | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. | 88 | |
| 10429576605 | frame device | a story within a story | 89 | |
| 10429576606 | Genre | A sub-category of literature. | 90 | |
| 10429576607 | Gerund | a verb ending in 'ing' to serve as a noun - 'Stabbing (used as a noun) is what I do said the thief.' | 91 | |
| 10429576608 | Gothic | A sensibility that includes such features as dark, gloomy castles and weird screams from the attic each night. | 92 | |
| 10429576609 | grotesque | Commonly used to denote aberrations from the norm of harmony, balance and proportion. Characterized by distortion, exaggeration, absurd, or the bizarre. | 93 | |
| 10429576610 | Homily | This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice. | 94 | |
| 10429576611 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 95 | |
| 10429576612 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement. | 96 | |
| 10429576613 | Idiom | An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally. | 97 | |
| 10429576614 | Imagery | The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions; related to the five senses: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory. O | 98 | |
| 10429576615 | Implicit | To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly. | 99 | |
| 10429576616 | in medias res | A Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point. | 100 | |
| 10429576617 | Inductive Reasoning | A method of reasoning by which a speaker collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that is meant to apply to all instances. | 101 | |
| 10429576618 | Inference/infer | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. If it is directly stated, then it is not this. | 102 | |
| 10429576619 | Interior Monologue | Refers to writing that records the mental talking that goes on inside a character's head; tends to be coherent. | 103 | |
| 10429576620 | Invective | an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. (For example, in Henry IV, Part hill of flesh.") | 104 | |
| 10429576621 | Inversion | Switching the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. | 105 | |
| 10429576622 | Irony/ironic | The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. there are three major types: (1) verbal - when the words literally state the opposite of the writer's (or speaker's) meaning (2) situational - when events turn out the opposite of what was expected; when what the characters and readers think ought to happen is not what does happen (3) dramatic - when facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work. | 106 | |
| 10429576623 | Jargon | A pattern of speech and vocabulary associated with a particular group of people. Computer analysis have their own vocabulary, as do doctors, plumbers, etc. | 107 | |
| 10429576624 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts. | 108 | |
| 10429576625 | Lampoon | A satire. | 109 | |
| 10429576626 | Limited Omniscient | A Third person narrator who generally reports only what one character sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character. | 110 | |
| 10429576627 | Literary Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects Displays intellectual cleverness through unusual comparisons that make good sense | 111 | |
| 10429576628 | Litotes | a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. Examples: "Not a bad idea." | 112 | |
| 10429576629 | Logos | An appeal to reason. | 113 | |
| 10429576630 | Loose sentence | A sentence that is complete before its end: Jack loved Barbara despite her irritating snorting laugh. | 114 | |
| 10429576631 | Macabre | Grisly, gruesome; horrible, distressing; having death as a subject. | 115 | |
| 10429576632 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused: Example, he is the AMPLE of her eye... instead of "he is the APPLE of her eye". | 116 | |
| 10429576633 | Masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable (regular old rhyme) | 117 | |
| 10429576634 | maxim | a concise statement, often offering advice; an adage | 118 | |
| 10429576635 | Meaning | What makes sense, what's important, why the writer/speaker said what he/she said. | 119 | |
| 10429576636 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure. | 120 | |
| 10429576637 | Metaphor | A comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another. | 121 | |
| 10429576638 | Metonymy | One word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (such as crown for royalty). | 122 | |
| 10429576639 | Monosyllabic | Having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable. | 123 | |
| 10429576640 | Mood | The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work. | 124 | |
| 10429576641 | motif | a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design | 125 | |
| 10429576642 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 126 | |
| 10429576643 | Nemesis | The protagonist's arch enemy or supreme and persistent difficulty. | 127 | |
| 10429576644 | neologism | a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses | 128 | |
| 10429576645 | Non Sequitur | This literally means "it does not follow". An argument by misdirection that is logically irrelevant. | 129 | |
| 10429576646 | Objectivity | Treatment of subject matter in an impersonal manner or from an outside view. | 130 | |
| 10429576647 | Omniscient | A third person narrator who sees into each character's mind and understands all the action going on. | 131 | |
| 10429576648 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean | 132 | |
| 10429576649 | Opposition | A pairing of images whereby each becomes more striking and informative because it's placed in contrast to the other one. | 133 | |
| 10429576650 | Oxymoron | A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. | 134 |
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| 13925927277 | Active voice: | subject of sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 13925930088 | Passive voice: | subject of sentence receives the action | 1 | |
| 13925932946 | Allusion: | indirect reference to something with which the readers is supposed to be familiar | 2 | |
| 13925932947 | Alter-ego: | character used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts; author speaks directly to the audience through a character | 3 | |
| 13925941803 | Anecdote: | brief recounting of a relevant episode | 4 | |
| 13925944024 | Antecedent: | word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 5 | |
| 13925945799 | Classicism: | art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures | 6 | |
| 13925951009 | Comic relief: | when a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story to lighten the mood somewhat | 7 | |
| 13925954090 | Diction: | word choice | 8 | |
| 13925956004 | Colloquial: | ordinary or familiar type of conversation | 9 | |
| 13925956005 | Connotation: | associations suggested by a word rather than the dictionary definition. Implied meaning | 10 | |
| 13925959175 | Denotation: | the literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations | 11 | |
| 13925961952 | Jargon: | diction used by a group which practices asimilar profession or activity | 12 | |
| 13925964932 | Vernacular: | Language or dialect of a particular country or language or dialect of a regional clan or group or plain everyday speech | 13 | |
| 13925966634 | Didactic: | term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a lesson | 14 | |
| 13925969358 | Adage: | a folk saying with a lesson | 15 | |
| 13925973379 | Allegory: | a story, fictional or non fictional, where characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. Interactions of characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth. | 16 | |
| 13925976613 | Aphorism: | terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 17 | |
| 13925979088 | Ellipsis: | the deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author. | 18 | |
| 13925980575 | Euphemism: | more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 19 | |
| 13925982994 | Figurative Language: | writing that is not meant to be taken literally | 20 | |
| 13925986769 | Analogy: | comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables. | 21 | |
| 13925988784 | Hyperbole: | exaggeration | 22 | |
| 13925992954 | Idiom: | a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally | 23 | |
| 13925992976 | Metaphor: | implied comparison, not using like or as or other such words | 24 | |
| 13925995672 | Metonymy: | replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept | 25 | |
| 13925997402 | Synecdoche: | a kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, vice versa | 26 | |
| 13926003243 | Simile: | using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things | 27 | |
| 13926011627 | Synesthesia: | a description involving a "crossing of the senses | 28 | |
| 13926013910 | Personification: | giving human like qualities to something that is not human | 29 | |
| 13926051932 | Foreshadowing: | when an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story. | 30 |
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