AP Language Vocab #1 Flashcards
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| 10530203545 | accusatory | (adj) containing or expressing blame | 0 | |
| 10530203546 | apathetic | (adj) indifferent | 1 | |
| 10530203547 | cynical | (adj) distrustful of human nature motives | 2 | |
| 10530203548 | condescension | (n) patronizing attitude or behavior | 3 | |
| 10530203549 | callous | (adj) emotionally hardened, unfeeling | 4 | |
| 10530203550 | contemplative | (adj) thoughtful, reflective, meditative | 5 | |
| 10530203551 | critical | (adj) judgemental, analytical | 6 | |
| 10530203552 | choleric | (adj.) hot-tempered | 7 | |
| 10530203553 | contemptuous | (adj) showing contempt; scornful [attitude] | 8 | |
| 10530203554 | caustic | (adj) corrosive; sarcastic | 9 |
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| 10843596612 | Agricultural revolutions | change from food gathering to food production | 0 | |
| 10843596613 | Carthage | City located in present-day Tunisia, | 1 | |
| 10843596614 | Celts | Peoples sharing a common language and culture | 2 | |
| 10843596615 | city-state | Small independent state | 3 | |
| 10843596616 | civilization | An ambiguous term | 4 | |
| 10843596617 | Coneiform | A system of writing | 5 | |
| 10843596618 | Daoism | Chinese school | 6 | |
| 10843596619 | Democracy | A system of government "citizens " | 7 | |
| 10843596620 | Diaspora | Greek work meaning dispersal | 8 | |
| 10843596621 | Druids | the class of religious experts | 9 | |
| 10843596622 | Gentry | the class of prosperous families | 10 | |
| 10843596623 | Han | Chinese dynasty of emperors | 11 | |
| 10843596624 | Harappa | one of the great cities of the indus valley | 12 | |
| 10843596625 | Hatshepsut | Queen of Egypt | 13 | |
| 10843596626 | Hellenistic Age | Historians term of era | 14 | |
| 10843596627 | Mandate of heaven | Chinese religious | 15 | |
| 10843596628 | Minoan | Prosperous civilization | 16 | |
| 10843596629 | Mohenjo-Daro | Largest of the cities | 17 | |
| 10843596630 | Monotheism | Belief in existence | 18 | |
| 10843596631 | Mycenae | Site of a fortified palace | 19 | |
| 10843596632 | Neolithic | The period of the stone age | 20 | |
| 10843596633 | Olmec | The first Mesoamerican | 21 | |
| 10843596634 | Paleolithic | the period of the stone age with hunting | 22 | |
| 10843596635 | Pax Romana | literally meaning of "Roman peace" | 23 | |
| 10843596636 | Peloponnesian war | A protracted | 24 | |
| 10843596637 | Persian wars | Conflicts between greek city-state | 25 | |
| 10843596638 | Phoenicians | Semitic speaking canaanities | 26 | |
| 10843596639 | Polis | Greek term for city-state | 27 | |
| 10843596640 | Principate | Term used to characterize roman government | 28 | |
| 10843596641 | Ptolemies | The macedonian dynasty | 29 | |
| 10843596642 | Qin | People and state in eastern china | 30 | |
| 10843596643 | Republic | The period from 507 to 31 B.C.E | 31 | |
| 10843596644 | Sastrap | Dominant people in the earliest chinese | 32 | |
| 10843596645 | Trireme | Greek and phoenician | 33 | |
| 10843596646 | Xiongnu | A confederation of nomadic people | 34 | |
| 10843596647 | Zhou | The people and dynasty | 35 | |
| 10843596648 | Zoroastrianism | A religion originating in ancient Iran | 36 | |
| 10843596649 | Shang | The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty | 37 | |
| 10843596650 | Confucius | Western name for the Chinese | 38 | |
| 10843596651 | Culture | Socially transmitted patterns | 39 |
AP Literature Flashcards
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| 12174551007 | structuralism | language not only conveys concepts, it colors or mediates them; therefore, truth is distorted through language | 0 | |
| 12174576536 | deconstructionism | because language distorts truth, there is no truth, and any authoritative claims to truth are inherently suspect | 1 | |
| 12174606384 | new historicism | looks at literature from the perspective of the minority; literature can be the propaganda of the oppressive majority culture | 2 | |
| 12174635693 | alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds in phrase | 3 | |
| 12174640101 | kenning | a metaphorical compound word or phrase substituted for a noun | 4 | |
| 12174646610 | caesura | a pause dividing each line of poetry | 5 | |
| 12174679375 | rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 6 | |
| 12174683206 | imagery | words or phrases that create sensory experiences | 7 | |
| 12174699020 | Hrothgar | in Beowulf, the Danish king whose mead hall is being invaded by a monster | 8 | |
| 12174789693 | Grendel | in Beowulf, the monster | 9 | |
| 12174793879 | Beowulf | in Beowulf, the Geatish hero who comes to rescue Hrothgar | 10 | |
| 12174798982 | Wiglaf | in Beowulf, the young Geatish warrior who stands by the aged Beowulf | 11 | |
| 12174829998 | Knight | in The Canterbury Tales, a model of chivalry and courtesy, a good soldier | 12 | |
| 12174846790 | Monk | in The Canterbury Tales, wears fur, eats swan and loves to hunt | 13 | |
| 12174854053 | Wife of Bath | in The Canterbury Tales, has had five husbands and has been on many pilgrimages | 14 | |
| 12174880867 | Pardoner | in The Canterbury Tales, has flaxen hair, a girl in every town and loves gold | 15 | |
| 12174910053 | The Pardoner's Tale | the tale of three rioters looking for death | 16 | |
| 12174916060 | The Wife of Bath's Tale | the tale of the knight who must find what women want | 17 | |
| 12174923355 | pastoral poem | a type of lyric poetry that idealizes nature and rural life | 18 | |
| 12174928793 | lyric poem | poetry with musical qualities | 19 | |
| 12174956168 | sonnet | "little song" of 14 lines of iambic pentameter | 20 | |
| 12175005599 | quatrain | a grouping of four lines of poetry | 21 | |
| 12175048378 | couplet | two rhyming lines of poetry | 22 | |
| 12175072523 | English sonnet form | quatrain, quatrain, quatrain, couplet | 23 | |
| 12175095032 | Italian sonnet form | octave (4+4) and sestet (3+3) | 24 | |
| 12175132059 | octave | a grouping of eight lines of poetry | 25 | |
| 12175136187 | Spenserian rhyme scheme | abab, bcbc, cdcd, ee | 26 | |
| 12175173475 | Shakespearean rhyme scheme | abab, cdcd, efef, gg | 27 | |
| 12175195343 | personification | giving human qualities to an inanimate object | 28 | |
| 12175205143 | simile | a comparison using 'like' or 'as' | 29 | |
| 12175211282 | metaphor | a direct comparison | 30 | |
| 12175241936 | metonymy | using a word that is closely associated with a subject instead of the subject (crown for monarchy or king) | 31 | |
| 12175280313 | synecdoche | using a part to represent the whole (May I have your hand in marriage?) | 32 |
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AP Literature Word Dissection Lesson 19 Flashcards
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| 12495918108 | _____arian/tarian | person who is (pertaining to) | 0 | |
| 12495922204 | pneumo/pneumono | lung/lungs (air/gas) | 1 | |
| 12495926402 | _____ula/ule | small (slight) | 2 | |
| 12495931737 | visc/visco/viscid | sticky (thick) | 3 | |
| 12495933996 | histo/histio | tissue (body) | 4 | |
| 12495937600 | trop/tropo/tropy | turn (twist/rotate) | 5 |
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AP Lit WOD Final Flashcards
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| 9014046881 | Antithesis | Juxaposition of contrasting ideas - "What if I am rich, another is poor" |  | 0 |
| 9014054785 | Anastrophe | Inversion of natural word order - "As not what your country can do for you, ask what ..." |  | 1 |
| 9014064396 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjuctions between INDEPENDENT CLAUSES - "I came, I saw, I conquered" |  | 2 |
| 9014079183 | Brachylogia | type of asyndeton that omits conjucntions between single words or phrases (dependent) - "bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend.." | 3 | |
| 9014096265 | Epanorthosis | "Correction", writer emphasizes idea by changing idea mid sentence - "They deserved - no, they earned - speical rights" | 4 | |
| 9014110289 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds - "Fire-Fangled Feathers Dangle Down" |  | 5 |
| 9014118654 | Assonance | repetition of same vowel sounds - "large, dark, hands" |  | 6 |
| 9014128863 | Anaphora | repetition of word or group of words at beggginning of successive clauses |  | 7 |
| 9014135761 | Epistrophe | Repetition of same word or word group at END of successive cluases (reverse anaphora) |  | 8 |
| 9014143697 | Epanalepsis | Repetition at end of clause word that occurred at beginning of the clause |  | 9 |
| 9014158134 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at beginning of following clause - "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate...." | 10 | |
| 9014169727 | Polyptoton | Repetition of word derived from same root |  | 11 |
| 9014185289 | Anacoluthon | Lack of implied sequence within a sentence - "fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... the pint is you're not gonna fool me" | 12 | |
| 9014200917 | Simile | Like or As! | 13 | |
| 9014202575 | Synechdoche | Figure of speech where a part stands for a whole - "Let two summers whither pride" (summers represent a whole year) | 14 | |
| 9014213641 | Metonymy | Substitution of some attribute or word for that is actually meant -"The white house" (stands for the entire administration) | 15 | |
| 9014227951 | Antanaclasis | Repetition of a word in two different senses - "Your arguement is sound, nothing but sound." | 16 | |
| 9014243041 | Paronomasia | (Pun), words that sound alike but different meaning |  | 17 |
| 9014250172 | Anthimeria | Substitution of one part of speech for another - "Me, dictionarying heavily" | 18 | |
| 9014279380 | Hyperbole | Deliberate exaggeration |  | 19 |
| 9014287396 | Litotes | Deliberate understatement |  | 20 |
| 9014291407 | Oxymoron | self-contradictory phrase |  | 21 |
| 9026558336 | Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions - "and a green time and an orange time" | 22 |
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