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AP World History Chapter 28 Vocab Flashcards
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| 8577718319 | Western Front | A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other. | 0 | |
| 8577718320 | Faisal | Arab prince, leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921, and he reigned under British protection until 1933. | 1 | |
| 8577718321 | Theodore Herzl | Austrian journalist and founder of the Zionist movement urging the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. | 2 | |
| 8577718322 | Balfour Declaration | Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. | 3 | |
| 8577718323 | Bolsheviks | Radical Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin in 1903. Under Lenin's leadership, the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917 during the Russian Revolution. | 4 | |
| 8577718324 | Vladimir Lenin | Leader of the Bolshevik (later Communist) Party. He lived in exile in Switzerland until 1917, then returned to Russia to lead the Bolsheviks to victory during the Russian Revolution and the civil war that followed. | 5 | |
| 8577718325 | Woodrow Wilson | (1856-1924) President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations. | 6 | |
| 8577718326 | League of Nations | International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s, and it was superseded by the United Nations in 1945. | 7 | |
| 8577718327 | Treaty of Versailles | The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans. | 8 | |
| 8577718328 | New Economic Policy | Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private enterprises. Joseph Stalin ended the N.E.P. in 1928 and replaced it with a series of Five-Year Plans. | 9 | |
| 8577718329 | Sun Yat-sen | Chinese nationalist revolutionary, founder and leader of the Guomindang until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders. | 10 | |
| 8577718330 | Yuan Shikai | Chinese general and first president of the Chinese Republic (1912-1916). He stood in the way of the democratic movement led by Sun Yat-sen. | 11 | |
| 8577718331 | Guomindang | Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925, the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek, who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement. | 12 | |
| 8577718332 | Chiang Kai-shek | General and leader of Nationalist China after 1925. Although he succeeded Sun Yat-sen as head of the Guomindang, he became a military dictator whose major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong. | 13 | |
| 8577718333 | mandate system | Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision. | 14 | |
| 8577718334 | Margaret Sanger | American nurse and author; pioneer in the movement for family planning; organized conferences and established birth control clinics. | 15 | |
| 8577718335 | Max Planck | German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. | 16 | |
| 8577718336 | Albert Einstein | German physicist who developed the theory of relativity, which states that time, space, and mass are relative to each other and not fixed. | 17 | |
| 8577718337 | Wilbur and Orville Wright | American bicycle mechanics; the first to build and fly an airplane, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 7, 1903. | 18 | |
| 8577725318 | Fourteen Points | Peace program presented to U.S. Congress by President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918. Called for evacuation of German-occupied lands, the drawing of borders and the settling of territorial disputes by the self-determination of the affected populations, and the founding of an association of nations to preserve the peace and guarantee their territorial integrity. Rejected by Germany, but made Wilson the moral leader of the Allies in the last year of World War I. | 19 | |
| 8577738886 | Ataturk | Founder of modern Turkey. Distinguished himself in the defense of Gallipoli in World War I and expelled a Greek expeditionary army from Anatolia in 1921-1922. Replaced Ottoman Empire with Turkish Republic in 1923. As president, he pushed through a radical Westernization and reform of Turkish society. | 20 | |
| 8577752499 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian psychiatrist, founder of psychoanalysis. Argued that psychological problems were caused by traumas, especially sexual experiences in early childhood, that were repressed in later life. His ideas caused controversy among psychologists and in the public. Although his views on repressed sexuality are no longer widely accepted, his psychoanalytic methods are still very influential. | 21 |
AP Language Week 7 Flashcards
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| 9808627048 | aberration | something not typical; a deviation from the norm | 0 | |
| 9808627049 | abhor | to hate, to detest | 1 | |
| 9808627050 | abide | be faithful, to endure, to put up with | 2 | |
| 9808627051 | abscond | Run away; usually includes taking something along | 3 | |
| 9808627052 | abstemious | Sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | 4 | |
| 9808627053 | abysmal | extremely bad, appalling | 5 | |
| 9808627054 | acclaimed | welcomed publicly with shouts and approval; praised | 6 | |
| 9808627055 | adorn | add beauty, decorate | 7 | |
| 9808627056 | adulterate | make something impure by mixing inferior substance; corrupt, debase | 8 | |
| 9808627057 | aesthetic | concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste | 9 | |
| 9808627058 | aggregate | sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | 10 | |
| 9808627059 | alleviate | make (pain) easier to bear | 11 | |
| 9808627060 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 12 | |
| 9808627061 | ambiguous | doubtful, uncertain; open to more than one interpretation | 13 | |
| 9808627062 | amnesty | a pardon, warrant granting release from punishment | 14 | |
| 9808627063 | anarchy | state of lawlessness and disorder | 15 | |
| 9808627064 | anguish | severe suffering | 16 | |
| 9808627065 | anomalous | Abnormal; Deviating from the general or common order or type | 17 | |
| 9808627066 | antipathy | A feeling of intense dislike, object of a feeling of intense aversion | 18 | |
| 9808627067 | apartheid | brutal racial discrimination | 19 |
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AP Literature Vocab Week 11 Flashcards
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| 7941132046 | ignominious (adj) | humiliating | 0 | |
| 7941133060 | execrated (v) | cursed; damned; denounced | 1 | |
| 7941134998 | adduced (v) | led to; cited as proof | 2 | |
| 7941138540 | indignation (n) | righteous anger | 3 | |
| 7941139724 | wantonly (adv) | without regard for what is right | 4 | |
| 7941142483 | timorous (adj) | timid; shy; full of apprehension | 5 | |
| 7941145239 | bauble (n) | trinket; cheap ornament | 6 | |
| 7941146165 | manacled (adj) | chained; fettered | 7 | |
| 7941147628 | absolution (n) | forgiveness, redemption | 8 | |
| 7941150156 | obdurate (adj) | stubborn | 9 | |
| 7941152790 | perdition (n) | eternal damnation | 10 | |
| 7941154254 | ignominy (n) | disgrace, dishonor | 11 | |
| 7941179316 | perpetrated (v) | carried out | 12 | |
| 7941180819 | tarnish (v) | to corrode, discolor, discredit, disgrace | 13 | |
| 7941181755 | avowal (n) | frank acknowledgement or admission | 14 | |
| 7941184154 | augmenting (n) | adding to something | 15 | |
| 7941185813 | complacency (n) | self-satisfaction | 16 | |
| 7941187048 | abhorrence (n) | a feeling of extreme repugnance | 17 | |
| 7941188330 | depraved (adj) | sinful, morally corrupted | 18 | |
| 7941190590 | abyss (n) | a deep, immeasurable space, gulf, or cavity; vast chasm | 19 |
AP Literature Vocab Flashcards
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| 7131056371 | Allusion | An indirect reference to another idea, person, place, event, artwork, etc to enhance the meaning of work in which it appears | 0 | |
| 7131060355 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds | 1 | |
| 7131061256 | Analogy | A comparison between two different items that an author may use to describe,define, explain etc, by indicating their similarities | 2 | |
| 7131067889 | Antithesis | Two opposing ideas presented in a parallel manner | 3 | |
| 7131071589 | Apostrophe | A device or figure of speech that is most frequently found in poetry when a writer speaks directly to an abstract person, idea, or ideal | 4 | |
| 7131093004 | Anecdote | A little known story told for rhetorical effect | 5 | |
| 7131095047 | Archetype | An iconic representation of a psychological type | 6 | |
| 7131096007 | Ballad | A poem written to tell a tale | 7 | |
| 7131097833 | Connotation | The emotional feel of a word | 8 | |
| 7131099481 | Caricature | An exaggerated representation of someone or something for a humorous effect | 9 | |
| 7131105480 | Diction | The conscious decision the author makes when choosing vocabulary to create an intended effect | 10 | |
| 7131107258 | Denotation | The literal definition of a word | 11 | |
| 7131108646 | Dramatic Monologue | A poem told from a first person point of view to an unseen audience | 12 | |
| 7131109665 | Epithet | An adjective or adjective phrase that an author uses to describe the perceived nature of a noun by accentuating one of its dominant characteristics | 13 | |
| 7131113622 | Emulation | Imitating a writers style or approach | 14 | |
| 7131114019 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or overstatement to emphasize a point or to achieve a specific effect that can be serious, humorous, sarcastic, or even ironic | 15 | |
| 7131116618 | Juxtaposition | Placing two or more concepts side by side | 16 | |
| 7131117346 | Lyric | A poem expressing emotional thought | 17 | |
| 7131118970 | Metaphor | A direct comparison between two unlike things | 18 | |
| 7131124452 | Metonymy | A metaphor in which the actual subject is represented by an item with which it is closely associated | 19 | |
| 7131125563 | Meter | Rhythm; series of accented and unaccented syllables | 20 | |
| 7131126479 | Nemesis | Unrelenting matchless foe | 21 | |
| 7131126996 | Ode | Lengthy poem that addresses a lofty or exalted topic | 22 | |
| 7131128543 | Onomatopoeia | The word imitating the sound that is being made | 23 | |
| 7131129414 | Oxymoron | Figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined | 24 | |
| 7131131429 | Parallelism | Grammatically similar constructions that create a sense of balance that allows the audience to compare and contrast the parallel subjects | 25 | |
| 7131133959 | Pastoral | Poetry that idealizes the simple lives of shepherds in a rural setting | 26 | |
| 7131135746 | Persona | The projected personality of the person telling subjects | 27 | |
| 7131137338 | Parable | Story told to teach a morale lesson | 28 | |
| 7131137674 | Personification | Figure of speech in which a non-human thing is given human characteristics | 29 | |
| 7131139182 | Quatrain | A stanza with four lines | 30 | |
| 7131140070 | Rhetorical Question | A question to which one does not expect an answer | 31 | |
| 7131141213 | Simile | Figure of speech that uses the words like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things. | 32 | |
| 7131143770 | Speaker | The voice of one who tells a story | 33 | |
| 7131144235 | Scansion | The act of analyzing rhythm and rhyme | 34 | |
| 7131145041 | Solioquy | Thoughts expressed by a person who is done | 35 | |
| 7131146971 | Sonnet | Lyric poem of fourteen lines, typically written in iambic pentameter and usually following strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme. | 36 | |
| 7131148522 | Syntax | The grammatical structure of sent | 37 | |
| 7131147816 | Synechdoche | A metaphor that uses a part to represent the whole | 38 | |
| 7131152850 | Understatement/Litote | Language that makes something seem less important than it really is | 39 |
AP Spanish Literature - El siglo XIX Flashcards
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| 7164285508 | Romanticismo | es inspirado por la naturaleza, especialmente en sus aspectos prodigiosos o sublimes | 0 | |
| 7164285509 | Realismo | es influenciado por las ciencias experimentales | 1 | |
| 7164285510 | Modernismo | utiliza la literatura como comentario político | 2 | |
| 7164285511 | Modernismo | tiene puntos en común con la literatura romántica como la rebeldía, la búsqueda de originalidad y la evocación del pasado legendario | 3 | |
| 7164285512 | Naturalismo | tiene una intención ideológica, la crítica de la sociedad | 4 | |
| 7164285513 | Romanticismo | proclama la liberación frente a las leyes sociales, la pasión, el instinto y las expresiones como derechos individuales | 5 | |
| 7164285514 | Realismo | trata de la clase media y de la vida corriente | 6 | |
| 7164285515 | Realismo | observa con miuciosidad y se expresa con precisión | 7 | |
| 7164285516 | Modernismo | es una reacción al espíritu y al estilo realistas del siglo XIX | 8 | |
| 7164285517 | Romanticismo | una reacción a la serenidad del clasicismo y respeto por las normas del siglo XVIII | 9 | |
| 7164285518 | Realismo, Naturalismo | es un movimiento cultural europeo de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX | 10 | |
| 7164285519 | Realismo | es una reacción contra el Romanticismo | 11 | |
| 7164285520 | Romanticismo | sus héroes literarios viven una frustración que a veces lleva al suicidio | 12 | |
| 7164285521 | Modernismo | muchos de sus escritores son políticos o participiantes activos en el movimiento emancipador | 13 | |
| 7164285522 | Romanticismo | se exalta la imaginación sobre la razón, lo fantástico sobre lo real | 14 | |
| 7164285523 | Naturalismo | usa a veces el lenguaje vulgar y grosero | 15 | |
| 7164285524 | Modernismo | ocurre al fin del siglo XIX y a principios del siglo XX | 16 | |
| 7164285525 | Realismo | usa un lenguaje popular, común y coloquial que aumenta la sensación de autenticidad | 17 | |
| 7164285526 | Romanticismo | un movimiento cultural europeo de la primera mitad del siglo XIX | 18 | |
| 7164285527 | Realismo | generalmente el narrador es omnisciente | 19 | |
| 7164285528 | modernismo | marca el principio de un largo período de la conversión de la literatura latinoamericana en una de las más conocidas e influyentes del mundo | 20 | |
| 7164285529 | Naturalismo | busca los aspectos más sórdidos de la realidad como la miseria, las enfermedades, la degeneración y los vicios | 21 | |
| 7164285530 | Romanticismo | algunas veces exalta figuras antisociales como el pirata, el mendigo o el don Juan | 22 | |
| 7164285531 | Realismo | el argumento sirve para poner en relieve la complejidad sicológica y el desarrollo de los personajes | 23 | |
| 7164285532 | Modernismo | pasa de la América hispana a España para influir a los escritores españoles | 24 | |
| 7164285533 | Naturalismo | los personajes enfrentan la imposibilidad de alterar su destino | 25 | |
| 7164285534 | Modernismo | es una revolución literaria que empieza en Latinoamérica | 26 | |
| 7164285535 | Romanticismo | es un movimiento cultural europeo de la primera mitad del siglo XIX | 27 | |
| 7164285536 | Romanticismo | una exaltación de la libertad individual frente a cualquier limitación | 28 | |
| 7164285537 | Naturalismo | añade a la visión realista una concepción determinista del hombre | 29 | |
| 7164285538 | Naturalismo | es una derivación del Realismo en la que las ciencias experimentales tienen más influencia | 30 | |
| 7164285539 | Romanticismo | llega a España de las manos de los exiliados políticos | 31 | |
| 7164285540 | Realismo | trata de convencer al lector de una determinada idea o actitud | 32 | |
| 7164285541 | Naturalismo | lleva la información minuciosa al extremo de darle valor documental | 33 | |
| 7164285542 | modernismo | mira a Francia como modelo artístico | 34 | |
| 7164285543 | Naturalismo | sostiene que la conducta está condicionada por la herencia, el ambiente y el aspecto físico | 35 | |
| 7164285544 | Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Romanticismo | Autor y movimiento: «Rima LIII: Volverán las oscuras golondrinas» | 36 | |
| 7164285545 | Horacio Quiroga Realismo, Naturalismo | Autor y movimiento: «El hijo» | 37 | |
| 7164285546 | José Martí Modernismo | Autor y movimiento: «Nuestra América» | 38 | |
| 7164285547 | Rubén Darío Modernismo | Autor y movimiento: «A Roosevelt» | 39 | |
| 7164285548 | Emilia Pardo Bazán Realismo, Naturalismo | Autor y movimiento: «Las medias rojas» | 40 | |
| 7164285549 | José María Heredia Romanticismo | Autor y movimiento: «En una tempestad» | 41 |
AP Literature Vocab Flashcards
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| 9299378070 | Accent | Refers to the stressed portion of a word | 0 | |
| 9299380356 | Allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbol meaning outside of the tale itself | 1 | |
| 9299383717 | Alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 9299385948 | Allusion | A reference to another work or famous figure | 3 | |
| 9299388332 | Anachronism | A misplacement in time | 4 | |
| 9299390377 | Analogy | A comparison, usually involving different things | 5 | |
| 9299393864 | Antagonist | The force or character opposing the protagonist | 6 | |
| 9299395409 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to | 7 | |
| 9299403888 | Anticlimax | When an action produced far smaller results than one has been led to expect | 8 | |
| 9299407385 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman | 9 | |
| 9299409245 | Archaism | The use of deliberately old-fashioned language | 10 | |
| 9299411008 | Archetype | A pattern, symbol, or other element that recurs in far-flung and mythic literature | 11 | |
| 9299413020 | Assonance | The repeated use of vowel sounds | 12 | |
| 9299414978 | Atmosphere | The emotional tone/feeling or background that surrounds a scene, poem, or work | 13 | |
| 9299417474 | Ballad | A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme, typically having a naive folksy quality | 14 | |
| 9299421615 | Bathos | When writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to jerk tears from every moment | 15 | |
| 9299426240 | Blank verse | Poetry in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, usually | 16 | |
| 9299428544 | Bombast | Pretentious, exaggeratedly learned language | 17 | |
| 9299431490 | Bildungsroman | A novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education | 18 | |
| 9299436259 | Caesura | A song pause build into the middle of a poetic line | 19 | |
| 9299438077 | Cacophony | Using deliberately harsh, awkward sounds | 20 | |
| 9299440044 | Cadence | The beat of rhythm of a poem in a general sense | 21 | |
| 9467065864 | Canto | The name for a sectional division in a long work of poetry | 22 | |
| 9467067146 | Caricature | A portrait (verbal or otherwise) that exaggerates a facet of personality | 23 | |
| 9467069220 | Catharsis | The cleansing of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived vicariously through the experiences presented on stage | 24 | |
| 9467074076 | Chorus | The group of citizens who stand outside the main action on stage and comment on it | 25 | |
| 9467076890 | Coinage (neologism) | When a new word is invented on the spot | 26 | |
| 9467078989 | Colloquialism | A word or phrases that is used in conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English | 27 | |
| 9467085424 | Conceit | Refers to a startling or unusual metaphor, or to a metaphor developed and expanded upon over several lines | 28 | |
| 9467088763 | Denotation and Connotation | The __________ of a word it its literal meaning. The _________ are everything else that the word might suggest or imply | 29 | |
| 9467095688 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds within words | 30 | |
| 9467097238 | Couplet | A pair of lines that end in rhyme | 31 | |
| 9467097239 | Denouement | The final part of a narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved | 32 | |
| 9467101284 | Deus ex machina | The unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel | 33 | |
| 9467107745 | Dead metaphor | An implied figurative comparison that through frequent use no longer evokes a picture | 34 | |
| 9467111281 | Decorum | In order to observe this, a character's speech must be styled according to their social situation, and in accordance with the occasion | 35 | |
| 9467117294 | Didactic | Instructive, intent on imparting a moral, something excessively so | 36 | |
| 9467120205 | Diction | A writer's selection of words | 37 | |
| 9467120206 | Dirge | A song for the dead | 38 | |
| 9467121767 | Dissonance | The grating of incompatible sounds | 39 | |
| 9467124117 | Doggerel | Crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme | 40 | |
| 9467126144 | Dramatic irony | When the audience knows something the character in the drama do not | 41 | |
| 9469630839 | Dramatic monologue | When a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 42 | |
| 9469634084 | Elegy | A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner | 43 | |
| 9469637066 | Eulogy | Remarks in praise of someone who has died | 44 | |
| 9469639346 | End-rhyme | Rhyme at the ends of poetic lines | 45 | |
| 9469641445 | End-stopped | Poetic lines whose sense concludes as the line concludes | 46 | |
| 9487861024 | Anthropomorphism | When inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena are given human characteristics, behavior, or motivation | 47 | |
| 9543161881 | Enjambment | The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 48 | |
| 9543166363 | Epic | A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style | 49 | |
| 9543170383 | Epitaph | Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place | 50 | |
| 9543174693 | Epigraph | A quotation at the beginning of a piece or writing | 51 | |
| 9543179614 | Euphemism | A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality | 52 | |
| 9543189850 | Euphony | When sounds blend harmoniously | 53 | |
| 9543192959 | Farce | A funny play or a comedy | 54 | |
| 9543196206 | Feminine rhyme | Rhymes involving words of one stressed and then one slack or unstressed syllable | 55 | |
| 9543200761 | Foil | A secondary character whose purpose is the highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | 56 | |
| 9543205153 | Foot | The basic unit of measurement of meter, usually containing one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable | 57 | |
| 9543215197 | Foreshadowing | An event or statement in a narrative that in miniature suggests a larger event that comes later | 58 | |
| 9543219899 | Free verse | Poetry written without a regular rhyme scheme or metrical platter | 59 | |
| 9543224910 | Genre | A subcategory of literature | 60 | |
| 9543230975 | Gothic novel | An English genre of fiction popular in the 18th to early 19th centuries, characterized by an atmosphere of mystery and horror and having a pseudo-medieval setting | 61 | |
| 9543247875 | Hubris | The excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 62 | |
| 9543251758 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement | 63 | |
| 9543254931 | In media res | Latin for "in the midst of things." When a narrative begin in the middle of the action | 64 | |
| 9543261067 | Irony | A discrepancy between what is states and what is implied | 65 | |
| 9543265423 | Verbal irony | Saying one thing while meaning the opposite | 66 | |
| 9543268213 | Cosmic irony | When fate dashes the protagonist's false hopes | 67 | |
| 9543279129 | Situational irony | When events turn out to be the opposite of what one would reasonably expect | 68 | |
| 9543283006 | Lament | A poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one | 69 | |
| 9543285879 | Lampoon | A satire | 70 | |
| 9543285880 | Lyric | A type of poem that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world | 71 | |
| 9579714740 | Masculine rhyme | A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable | 72 | |
| 9579717378 | Melodrama | A form of cheesy theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain is oh so evil, and the heroine oh so pure | 73 | |
| 9579721616 | Metaphor and Simile | 1. A comparison or analogy that states one thing is another 2. Like #1, but softens the full-out equation of things | 74 | |
| 9579729412 | Meter | Rhythmic patterns of stressed and un-stressed syllables | 75 | |
| 9579731582 | Metonymy | A word that is used to stand for something else that it attributes of is is associated with | 76 | |
| 9579735628 | Motif | A recurring element or device | 77 | |
| 9579737839 | Nemesis | The protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | 78 | |
| 9579750064 | Onomatopoeia | Word that sound like they mean | 79 | |
| 9579751915 | Opposition | To have a pair of elements that contrast sharply, not necessarily in conflict | 80 | |
| 9579758990 | Oxymoron | A phrase-like contradiction | 81 | |
| 9579774330 | Palindrome | A word or phrase that reads the same forward and back | 82 | |
| 9579782213 | Parable | Like a fable or an allegory, this is a story that instructs | 83 | |
| 9579783688 | Paradox | A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not | 84 | |
| 9579789025 | Parallelism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | 85 | |
| 9579796217 | Parenthetical phrase | A phrase set off by commas that interrupts the flow of a sentence with some added detail | 86 | |
| 9580483677 | Parody | The work that results when a specific work is exaggerated to ridiculousness | 87 | |
| 9580487379 | Pastoral | A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, about shepherds | 88 | |
| 9580491864 | Pathos | Literature that seeks to arouse and intensify sorrow, pity, or sympathy | 89 | |
| 9580495027 | Personification | Giving an inanimate object human qualities or form | 90 | |
| 9580502459 | Plaint | A poem or speech expressing sorrow | 91 | |
| 9580506048 | The omniscient narrator | A third-person narrator who sees, like God, into each character's mind and understand all the action going on | 92 | |
| 9580517079 | The limited omniscient narrator | A third-person narrator who generally reports only what one character (usually the main character) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one character | 93 | |
| 9580526175 | The objective, or camera-eye narrator | A third-person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. This narrator does not know what a character is thinking unless the character speaks of it | 94 | |
| 9580533016 | The first-person narrator | A narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his or her point of view | 95 | |
| 9580535096 | The stream consciousness technique | Like a first-person narration, but instead of the characters telling the story, the author places the reader inside the main character's head, making them privy to all the character's thoughts | 96 | |
| 9656174915 | Prelude | An introductory poem to a longer work of verse | 97 | |
| 9656175009 | Protagonist | The main character | 98 | |
| 9656177257 | Picaresque | An episodic tale of an incorrigible rascal who undertakes a series of adventures | 99 | |
| 9656180397 | Pun | The usually humorous use of a word in such as way to suggest two or more meanings | 100 | |
| 9656183062 | Rhymed verse | Poetry with both rhyme and regular rhythm | 101 | |
| 9656186304 | Refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times in a poem | 102 | |
| 9656188311 | Requiem | A son or prayer for the dead | 103 | |
| 9656190518 | Rhapsody | An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | 104 | |
| 9657161953 | Satire | A work that exposes common character flaws to the cold light of humor | 105 | |
| 9657163838 | Soliloquy | A speech spoken by a character alone on stage | 106 | |
| 9657167564 | Sonet | A lyric poem consisting of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter | 107 | |
| 9657169662 | Symbolism | A device in literature where an object represents an idea | 108 | |
| 9657172376 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part comes to stand for the whole | 109 | |
| 9657175676 | Tragic Flaw | In a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good individual that usually leads to their downfall | 110 | |
| 9657180393 | Truism | A way too obvious truth | 111 | |
| 9657181899 | Verisimilitude | The appearance of actuality | 112 | |
| 9657183565 | Weltanschauung | A comprehensive conception or theory of the world and the place of humanity within it | 113 |
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| 7308381527 | Ephemeral | Short-lived, fleeting, temporary(adjective) | 0 | |
| 7308384342 | Sycophant | Stuck-up(noun) | 1 | |
| 7308385812 | Obsequious | Obsessively obedient(adjective) | 2 | |
| 7308389996 | Contrite | Remorse, regret of bad behavior(adjective) | 3 | |
| 7308394724 | Derisive | Mock, make fun of(adjective) | 4 | |
| 7308396392 | Truculent | Quick to Fight/argue(Cruel)-(adj) | 5 | |
| 7308402870 | Inscrutable | Impossible to understand(adj) | 6 | |
| 7308405209 | Prosaic | Lacking poetic beauty(adj) | 7 | |
| 7308407486 | Pedantic | Concerned with obscure details(adj) | 8 | |
| 7308414159 | Progeny | Offspring of someone(noun) | 9 | |
| 7308419934 | Demur | Classily raise doubts/reject(verb) | 10 | |
| 7308425821 | Prudence | With Caution(noun) | 11 | |
| 7308429601 | Insolent | Disrespectful(adj) | 12 | |
| 7308435272 | Pugnacious | Eager to Argue/fight(Naturally Aggressive)(adj) | 13 | |
| 7308448747 | Analogous | Similar, comparable, interchangeable(adJ) | 14 | |
| 7308454249 | Effulgent | Shine, radiant, sparkle(adj) | 15 | |
| 7308456591 | Resolute | Purposeful, determinable, unwavering(adj) | 16 | |
| 7308467761 | Irascibility | Easy to anger(hot head)(adj) | 17 | |
| 7308469053 | Arduous | Severe, difficult to endure(adj) | 18 | |
| 7308471066 | Sagacious | Wise, clever(adj) | 19 |
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