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AP Spanish Literature Literary Terms Flashcards

6462143635	vocales	vowels	0
6462143636	diptongo	the combination of a strong vowel (a, o, e) with a weak vowel (i, u)	1
6462143637	sinéresis	two strong vowels in the same syllable	2
6462143638	sinalefa	blending two successive vowels into one syllable Los cabellos que-al oro -oscurecían.	3
6462143639	llana	describes words in which the stressed syllable is the second to last	4
6462143640	aguda	describes words in which the stressed syllable is the last	5
6462143641	esdrújulas	describes words in which the stressed syllable is the third to last	6
6462143651	hipérbole	exaggeration	7
6462143652	prosopopeya	giving human characteristics to non-human objects	8
6462143653	aliteración	repetition of the same sound or group of sounds	9
6462143654	anáfora	repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of two or more verses or sentences	10
6462143655	antítesis	contradictory ideas in similar phrases	11
6462143657	apóstrofe	a passage addressing a person or thing as if it could respond	12
6462143658	arquetipo	a typical example or symbol of something, a model of behavior	13
6462143661	asíndeton	omission of a conjunction between parts of a sentence	14
6462143663	cesura	a pause in the middle of a line	15
6462143665	elipsis	omission of elements of a sentence	16
6462143666	encabalgamiento	continuation of a thought from one verse to the next	17
6462143667	epopeya	poetry in an elevated style describing a historic or legendary hero	18
6462143668	epíteto	addition of adjectives that are not necessary, but emphasize a certain characteristic of a thing - ex: My little saver child	19
6462143669	estribillo	line or lines that are repeated throughout a poem	20
6462143670	estrofa	stanza	21
6462143674	hipérbaton	alteration to the typical order of words in a sentence ex: some rise in sin, and some BY VIRTUE FALL (simile anastrophe)	22
6462143677	metáfora	a comparison between objects in which one object is typically symbolic of another	23
6462143678	metonimia	substitution of a word for the idea meant England decides to keep check on immigration. (England refers to the government.) The pen is mightier than the sword. (Pen refers to written words and sword to military force.) The Oval Office was busy in work. ("The Oval Office" is a metonymy as it stands for people at work in the office.) Let me give you a hand. (Hand means help.)	24
6462143679	onomatopeya	use of words to imitate a sound	25
6462143680	paradoja	union of apparently irreconcilable ideas	26
6462143681	pareado	stanza of two lines	27
6462143682	parodia	exaggerated imitation of something for comic effect	28
6462143683	prefiguración	foreshadowing, indication of events to come	29
6462143684	realismo mágico	magical elements in a realistic setting	30
6462143685	rima asonante	type of rhyme in which only the vowels rhyme	31
6462143686	rima consonante	rhyme in which the last sounds rhyme	32
6462143688	símil	comparison between two objects using like or as	33
6462143689	sinécdoque	substituting the name of an object for another related object, typically used to give an object a more general name (a part of the whole - "wheels" instead of car	34
6462143691	tema	theme	35
6462143693	alegoría	allegory, story interpreted to reveal a deeper meaning	36
6462143694	copla	couplet, two lines of verse joined into one unit	37
6462143695	figuras retóricas	rhetorical figure, language device used by a writer to prompt the reader to consider the meaning from a different perspective	38
6462143696	hemistiquio	hemistich, half a line of verse preceded or followed by a caesura, sometimes used to indicate tension or suspense	39
6462143697	justicia poética	poetic justice, device in which a character is punished or rewarded based on their actions, often by fate	40
6462143698	metro	meter, rhythmic structure of verse	41
6462143699	retruécano	pun, play on words involving words that sound similar or a word with multiple meanings	42
6462143701	polifonía	polyphony, aspect of narrative involving multiple perspectives	43
6462143702	oda	ode, lyric poem addressing a particular subject, often elevated in style	44
6462143703	polisíndeton	polysyndeton, repetition of conjunctions	45
6462143704	pregunta retórica	rhetorical question, question posed for effect and not intended to be answered	46
6462143707	apología	eulogy, speech in defense or praise of a person or ideology	47
6462143708	caricatura	caricature, work that ridicules the example it is about	48
6462143709	cromatismo	the use of a set or range of colors to represent ideas or emotions	49
6462143711	leitmotiv	leading motif, repetition of a word, phrase, situation, or concept in a work	50
6462143712	metaficción	metafiction, fiction in which the author breaks the illusion of reality in a work by referring to the artificiality of the work	51
6462143713	sátira	satire, a literary work whose purpose is to ridicule the subject	52
6462143714	narrativa epistolar	epistolary novel, a work in the form of written letters from one or multiple characters	53
6462143715	narrador fidedigno	reliable narrator, narrator whose understanding of the characters or the actions in the story accredit it to tell the facts	54
6462143716	narrador no fidedigno	unreliable narrator, narrator who misinterprets the motives or action of the characters or who does no perceive the connections between the facts of the story, creating a discrepancy between the author and the narrator because the narrator is offering inconsistent information	55
6462143717	narrador testigo	witness, narrator who does not participate in the action of the story but relates the facts in first person and makes commentary	56
6462143718	narratario	the person at whom the narrator directs the text	57
6462143719	parábola	parable, a short educational story whose action is applicable to another situation	58
6462143720	diéresis	diaeresis, pronunciation of vowels in a diphthong in separate syllables	59
6462143721	hiato	hiatus, separation of a sinalefa	60
6462143722	verso blanco	blank verse, verse that does not have any kind of rhyme with any other verse, appears in poems with a regular metric rhyme scheme	61
6462143723	verso libre	free verse, verso that does not have any rhyme or metric pattern	62
6462143724	polimetría	polymetric, use of distinct metric forms in a single poem	63
6462143731	cacofonía	cacophony, use of words that combine unpleasant sounds	64
6462143732	sinestesia	synthesthesia, description of a sensation or image by means of sensations perceived by the five senses	65
6892095786	esdrújula	words where the accent falls in the 3rd to last syllable - ALWAYS has an accent	66
6892103337	agudas	words where the accent is on the last syllable, tilde (accent) when ends in vowel, n or s	67
6892107158	llanas		68

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World history-AP Byzantine/ Kievan Rus Flashcards

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11030643557	Battle of Manzikert	(1071 CE) Saljuq Turks (A group that originated in the steppes of central Asia) defeat Byzantine armies in this battle in Anatolia; shows the declining power of Byzantium.	0
11030680195	Fourth Crusade	A Crusade from 1202 to 1204 that was diverted into a battle for Constantinople and failed to recapture Jerusalem causing damage to Byzantine Empire	1
11030683457	Normans	group from northern France that Byzantine forces clashed with in the Mediterranean. Normans took Sicily and S. Italy from Byzantines	2
11030855628	Slavs	Group of people who originally lived in the steppes of NE Black sea. 500 B.C.E they began to emerge: East Slavic- Evolved into Ukrainian & Russian West Slavic- Evolved into Polish, Slovak, Czech	3
11030939537	Vikings	Scandinavian peoples whose sailors raided Europe from the 700s through the 1100s. By 900 vikings ruled the region and E. Slavs	4
11030978165	Rus	-Origin of the word Russia -Viking leaders were often called this	5
11031006953	Leo III iconoclastic policy	The practice of opposing the veneration of religious images and icons - He had ordered all images and paintings in churches to be either covered or destroyed	6
11031062114	Hagia Sophia	A Christian Church: Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.	7
11031093321	cyril		8
11031221705	Eastern Orthodox Church		9
11031204830	Hippodrome	A large stadium like Coliseum in the Rome in Constantinople	10
11031241208	Oleg	First Viking to settle in Kiev and the founder of the Russian state Kievan Rus	11
11031415892	Cyrillic Alphabet		12
11031415893	Kievan Rus		13
11031421229	Prince Vladimir		14
11031421230	Yaroslav I		15
11031433617	Bosoporus Strait		16

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AP World History- Mesopotamia Flashcards

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11831695654	Ur, Uruk, and Babylon	city in current day Iraq the city was quite large around the time of its settlement being a cultural center in early Sumeria came under akkadian control and produced seals which would be placed around the city was also mentioned in the epic of Gilgamesh and became the city of Babylon	0
11831763133	Social Classes of Mesopotamia	developed due to excess food supplies creating a hierarchy with a upper and lower class	1
11831763915	Shatterzone	The area in Mesopotamia where Subsequent peoples and empires inhabited the same area constantly	2
11831765150	Jericho	First walled settlement existing in current day Palestine settlement contained about 1,000 residents walls most likely protected the water supply and was mentioned in the bible, evidence of multiply walls suggest that earthquakes would cause the walls to fall occasionally	3
11831765160	Assyrians	ancient empire existing in Mesopotamia maintained power over their empire through the use of brutal military force and demolishing of enemy moral they would also deport peoples of conquered lands placing their own peoples within the areas	4
11831767279	Phoenicians	trading people located in the Mediterranean sea named after the rare purple snails they would crush and dry for purple dye, impacted the language and culture of the region significantly due to their maritime nature	5
11831767280	Ziggurat	large stone platforms erected around Mesopotamia probably used for religious purposes with textual evidence suggesting that shrines would be placed on top of the ziggurat	6
11831769970	multiple function of Mesopotamian temples		7
11831769971	Egypt	empire forming on the Nile river in was ruled by pharaohs or god-kings and had a great deal of development in comparison with the rest of the world in early days, also had a system of writing which allowed for social mobility, tax collecting, and other bureaucratic procedures	8
11831770887	Egypt - Isolation	civilization located on the banks of the Nile river and enclosed by the Sahara desert this allowed the people that lived there to develop similarly forming the first nation in history based on common language and culture	9
11831770888	Nile	river that runs centrally through Egypt and is the main water supply for the region, consist of two parts the upper and lower, Egypt is described as the gift of the Nile for this reason	10
11831771910	innundation	The period at the beginning of the annual flooding of the Nile between July and November	11
11831771911	Mesopotamia	translates from Greek to the place between the rivers as its placed between the Euphrates and Tigris, area is fertile and experience a rainy season forming the beliefs of many of the early civilization there	12
11831771912	Sargon	king of the akkadian empire he was the first king and kept power through speaking of connections to the common people, as his story goes he was floating down a river in a reed basket and taken in by farmers	13
11831773953	Addadia	first empire started around 2340 BCE by Sargon of Akkad, included multiple city states which would be taken one by one by sargon although much of the local customs where kept in order to not destabilize empire	14
11831773955	Hebrews	people claiming relation to Abraham follow Judaism and worshiping one god Yahweh enslaved in Egypt in which they exited with the help of Moses and miracles spend time in the wilderness and are frequently subjugated until forming Israel	15
11831775571	Persians	largest empire in the ancient world capitol Persepolis was located in current day Iran but had many cities throughout their land all linked together with a central road and governed by regional satraps keeping much of the original culture of a region	16
11831779784	Trading Peoples		17
12012163929	Hammurabi	Babylonian king was the first to record a code of laws	18

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Ap World History Geography Flashcards

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12116378543	Nile River		0
12116378544	Indus River		1
12116378545	Huang He		2
12116378546	Tigris River		3
12116378547	Euphrates River		4
12116378548	Amazon River		5
12116378549	Atlantic Ocean		6
12116378550	Pacific Ocean		7
12116378551	Indian Ocean		8
12116378552	Mediterranean Sea		9
12116378553	Black Sea		10
12116378554	Red Sea		11
12116378555	Caspian Sea		12
12116378556	Arabian Sea		13
12116378557	Himalayas		14
12116378558	Alps		15
12116378559	Caucasus Mountains		16
12116378560	Ural Mountains		17
12116378561	Andes		18
12116378562	Hindu-Kush		19
12116378563	Gobi Desert		20
12116378564	Sahara Desert		21
12116378565	Kalahari Desert		22
12116378566	Arabian Peninsula		23
12116378567	Korean Peninsula		24
12116378568	Caribbean		25
12116378569	Middle East		26
12116378570	South Asia		27
12116378571	Southeast Asia		28
12116378572	Indonesia		29
12116378573	Philippines		30
12116378574	Japan		31
12116378575	Canton		32
12116378576	Baghdad		33
12116378577	Batavia		34
12116378578	Mecca		35
12116378579	Malacca (Melaka)		36
12116378580	Constantinople/Istanbul		37
12116378581	Cordoba		38
12116378582	Jerusalem		39
12116378583	Tenochtitlan		40
12116378584	Timbuktu		41
12116378585	Beijing		42
12116378586	Kilwa		43
12116378587	Calcutta		44
12116378588	Jenne		45
12116378589	Moscow		46
12116378590	South China Sea		47
12116378591	Strait of Gibraltar		48
12116378592	Bering Sea		49
12116378593	Sea of Japan		50
12116378594	Bosporus		51
12116378595	Persian Gulf		52
12116378596	Niger River		53
12116378597	Tiber River		54
12116378598	Ganges River		55
12116378599	Yangtze River		56
12116378600	Pyrenees Mountains		57
12116378601	Indian Subcontinent		58
12116378602	Swahili Coast		59
12116378608	Sub-Saharan Africa	Portion of the African continent lying south of the Sahara.	60
12116378603	Iberian Peninsula		61
12116378604	Sumatra		62
12116378605	Malaysian Peninsula		63
12116378606	Crimean Peninsula		64
12116378609	Anatolia	A large peninsula at the western edge of Asia; also called Asia Minor	65
12116378607	Central Asia Steppes		66