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| 4813352363 | empiricism | view that science originates from experience and science should rely on observation and experimentation | 0 | |
| 4813355686 | structuralism | school of science that uses introspection to look at the structures of the human mind | 1 | |
| 4813358847 | functionalism | school of science at looks at how the behavior and mind processes function- how we adapt, survive | 2 | |
| 4813363862 | experimental psychology | study of behavior and min processes using the experimental method | 3 | |
| 4813366361 | behaviorism | science should be a objective science and the study of behavior without reference to mind processes | 4 | |
| 4813440555 | psychology | study of the behavioral and mental processes | 5 | |
| 4813441708 | nature- nurture | controversy between genes and traits to developmental traits of psychology | 6 | |
| 4813446932 | cognitive neuroscience | science that the brain is linked to cognition- thinking memory, language, perspective | 7 | |
| 4813450261 | natural selection | the traits such as survival and reproduction will be passed on to generations | 8 | |
| 4813454029 | humanistic psychology | looks at the growth potential of a healthy person to the potential of personal growth of an individual | 9 | |
| 4813536363 | levels of analysis | controversy views that look at biological, psychological, and social cultural in any given phenomenon | 10 | |
| 4813541899 | biopsychosial approach | approach that biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis | 11 | |
| 4813544812 | biological psychology | looks at how the brain is linked with biology | 12 | |
| 4813547803 | evolutionary psychology | looks at how brain and mental processes by using the principle of natural selection | 13 | |
| 4813553015 | psychodynamic psychology | looks at how unconscious drives and conflicts affect mental an behavioral processes (unfulfilled wishes and childhood traumas) | 14 | |
| 4813643503 | behavioral psychology | focuses on principle of learning in the scientific study of observable behavior (memories, sensations) | 15 | |
| 4813647259 | cognitive psychology | scientific study of thinking, remembering, conversation, and knowing | 16 | |
| 4813651306 | social- cultural psychology | looks at how different cultures and situations influence the way we think and our behavior | 17 | |
| 4813654466 | psychometrics | measures human aptitudes, abilities, and traits | 18 | |
| 4813657472 | basic research | pure scientific research that increases the scientific base rather than seeking to solve practical problems | 19 | |
| 4813744256 | developmental psychology | looks at how people psychically, cognitively, and social culturally develop over a life span | 20 | |
| 4813747797 | Educational psychology | how psychology affects teaching and learning | 21 | |
| 4813751422 | personality psychology | how we think, act, feel, learn- characteristics | 22 | |
| 4813754566 | applied research | seeks to solve practical problems | 23 | |
| 4813761011 | Industrial- organizational psychology | looks at how people work in the work place and seeks to improve ways | 24 | |
| 4814425152 | human factors pyschology | study of humans and machines | 25 | |
| 4814426221 | counseling pyschology | helps people cope with their daily lives | 26 | |
| 4814428276 | clinical pschology | helps with the treatment to people and they can prescribe medication (works with troubled people) | 27 | |
| 4814432190 | pyschiatry | concerned with people that have physiological disordres | 28 | |
| 4814434475 | sq3r | 1. survey 2.question 3. read 4. repeat 5. review | 29 |
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| 3693675587 | What was once an agricultural society had become a predominantly manufacturing economy. | In characterizing the period from 1450 to 1750 in the West, which of the following statements is NOT accurate? | 0 | |
| 3693675588 | Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, absolute monarchy, Enlightenment | Which of the following sequences lists the major developments of Western civilization in proper sequence? | 1 | |
| 3693675589 | The Renaissance failed to develop any new ideas concerning political organization. | Which of the following statements about the Renaissance is NOT accurate? | 2 | |
| 3693675590 | French and Spanish monarch invaded the peninsula, cutting down on political independence. | Which of the following accounts in part for the decline of the Italian Renaissance circa 1500? | 3 | |
| 3693675591 | Northern humanists focused more on religion than their Italian counterparts. | What was one of the primary differences between the Northern and Italian Renaissances? | 4 | |
| 3693675592 | the invention of the movable type in the West. | Johannes Gutenberg was responsible for | 5 | |
| 3693675593 | Nuclear families, late marriage ages | What was the European style family pattern that emerged in the 15th century? | 6 | |
| 3693675594 | Martin Luther | Who is generally credited with initiating the Protestant Reformation in 1517? | 7 | |
| 3693675595 | Priests should practice celibacy. | Which of the following was NOT a religious proposition advanced by Martin Luther? | 8 | |
| 3693675596 | German princes who turned Protestant could increase their independence from the emperor, seize church lands and control the church in their territories. | which of the following statements most accurately describes the reason why Luther picked up widespread support among the German elite? | 9 | |
| 3693675597 | Anglican | What was the church established by Henry VIII in England? | 10 | |
| 3693675598 | predestination | The theological foundation of Jean Calvin's Protestantism was | 11 | |
| 3693675599 | Poland, Southern Europe, Hungary and Iberia | Areas successfully defended by the Catholic reformation: | 12 | |
| 3693675600 | granted tolerance to Protestants and helped end the French civil wars of religion. | The Edict of Nantes, issued in France in 1598, | 13 | |
| 3693675601 | Reduced German prosperity and power for a full century; the treaty that ended the war granted political independence to the Protestant Netherlands; and the war established the principle of territorial toleration. | Results of the Thirty Years War: | 14 | |
| 3693675602 | a limited acceptance of the idea of religious pluralism. | The religious wars that followed the Protestant Reformation led generally to | 15 | |
| 3693675603 | proletariat | Inflation and commercialization in the West produced a group of people without access to producing property called the | 16 | |
| 3693675604 | a wave of popular protests resulting in uprisings caused by social tensions | Which of the following was a Western response to the commercial revolution of the 16th century that was proletarian in outlook? | 17 | |
| 3693675605 | Copernicus | Who use astronomical observation and mathematical calculation to disprove the Hellenistic belief that the Earth was the center of the universe? | 18 | |
| 3693675606 | The West was not alone in developing crucial scientific data, but its thinkers were the only ones to see science in broader philosophical terms as central to intellectual life. | How did the Western view of science compare with that of other civilizations? | 19 | |
| 3693675607 | a professionalized army; the cessation of parliamentary government; a growing bureaucracy; and constant warfare among monarchs. | What were typical of 16th century absolute monarchies? | 20 | |
| 3693675608 | Louis XIV of France | The monarch most associated with absolute monarchy was | 21 | |
| 3693675609 | Britain | Which state stood apart from the trend toward absolute monarchy in the 17th century and retained a parliamentary regime? | 22 | |
| 3693675610 | Enlightenment | The aftermath of the Scientific Revolution spilled over into a new intellectual movement in the 18th century called the | 23 | |
| 3693675611 | If people were not controlled, general social decline was inevitable. | Which of the following was NOT a basic principle of the Enlightenment? | 24 | |
| 3693675612 | New technology and better stock breeding methods resulted in higher productivity | How did agriculture change in the late 17th century? | 25 | |
| 3693675613 | The 18th century witnessed a rapid spread of household production of textiles and metal products, mostly by rural workers who alternated manufacturing with some agriculture. | Which of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of manufacturing in the later 18th century? | 26 | |
| 3693675614 | The merchants became more wealthy and proletariat's became poor and went into poverty and moved into the cities. | In what ways did the commercial revolution of the 16th century change the social structure of the West? | 27 |
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| 5080298402 | Primary sector | Extracting materials dorectly form the ground. Big in devolving countries | 0 | |
| 5080298403 | Tertiary sector | Provision of good and services in exchange for payment. Big in devolved countries. | 1 | |
| 5080298404 | Secondary sector | Manufacturers that process and transform raw materials. Devolving is higher. | 2 | |
| 5080477394 | Microstate | States with small land owner | 3 | |
| 5080477395 | What is the UN trying to do | World peace and devolpment across the world. | 4 | |
| 5080477396 | Frontier | A zone is where no state has complete political control | 5 | |
| 5080477397 | Boundary | Inside line that marks a states territory | 6 | |
| 5080477398 | What is Global economic pattern | The division of the world into poorer and wealthier regions | 7 | |
| 5080477399 | What is HDI | to measure the level of development of every country created by the UN | 8 | |
| 5080477400 | Fossil fuels | An energy source that can be exhausted | 9 | |
| 5080477401 | Proven reserve | A supply of energy remaining in deposits that are not known how to extract yet | 10 | |
| 5080477402 | Potential reserve | Supplies that have not been discovered but thought to exist | 11 | |
| 5080477403 | Fracking | When rocks break and gas fills the spaces between them | 12 | |
| 5080477404 | Two main alternate energy sources | Hydroelectric and nuclear energy | 13 | |
| 5080477405 | Three main non renewable energy sources | Coal. Natural gas. And petroleum | 14 | |
| 5080477406 | Breeder reacter | Turns uranium into a renewable resource | 15 | |
| 5080477407 | Hydroelectric | Power made from water | 16 | |
| 5080477408 | Biomass | Power made from plant material and animal waste | 17 | |
| 5080477409 | Geothermal | When hot rocks and counter ground water and steam for the hot water is the energy | 18 | |
| 5080477410 | Nuclear fusion | Fusion of hydrogen atoms to form helium | 19 | |
| 5080477411 | Passive solar energy systems | Capture energy without special devices | 20 | |
| 5080477412 | Active Solar energy | Systems correct and make heat or light | 21 | |
| 5080477413 | Photovoltaic cells | What solar radiation is captured with | 22 | |
| 5080574864 | What are the two paths of development | Self-sufficiency and internal trade | 23 | |
| 5080574865 | Self-sufficiency | Purges Mestic production of Gerd and discourages foreign ownership of businesses and resources | 24 | |
| 5080574866 | International trade | Open to foreign investment and do you identify is it's assets | 25 | |
| 5080574867 | What is Rostow model | There are five stages 1. Traditional; not started any development 2. Preconditions for take off; elite group indicates economic activitys 3. Take off; rapid growth and some economic activities 4. Drive to maturity; modern technology, and it diffuses to many industries 5. Age of mass consumption; economy shifts from production to consumer goods | 26 | |
| 5080574868 | Examples of international trade | For Asian dragon; They were South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong | 27 | |
| 5080574869 | Challenges for self-sufficiency | Protection of inefficient businesses, need for large bureaucracy | 28 | |
| 5080574870 | Challenges for international trade | Uneven resource distribution, increased dependence on developed countries, market decline | 29 | |
| 5080574871 | Is self-sufficiency or international trade better | International trade | 30 | |
| 5080574872 | What is a foreign direct investment | And vestment in another country from a foreign company | 31 | |
| 5080574873 | Whoever two main loan lenders | World bank and international monetary fund | 32 | |
| 5080574874 | What is structural adjustment program | Program that includes economic goals, strategies for achieving objectives, and external financing | 33 | |
| 5080574875 | What is housing bubble | Rapid increase in the value of houses, then a sharp decline in value | 34 | |
| 5080574876 | What is fair trade | Products that are made and traded according to standards that protect work and small businesses in developing countries | 35 | |
| 5080574877 | What is micro finance | Pro vision of small loans, and financial services to individuals and small businesses | 36 | |
| 5080574878 | Millennium development goals | Eight goals set by the UN to be achieved by 2015 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve a universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Improve maternal health 6.Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 8. Develop a global partnership for development | 37 |
2000 AP Literature Poetry Selection Flashcards
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| 9337100096 | Reason Odysseus seals his mens' ears with beeswax and why he binds himself to the ship's mast | Hearing their song has deadly consequences | 0 | |
| 9337138507 | Diction Homer uses to describe the Sirens' song | thrilling, honeyed, ravishing, urgent | 1 | |
| 9337173031 | How Homer portrays the Sirens | Alluring but dangerous | 2 | |
| 9337199522 | Example of situational irony | Men still throw themselves overboard even though they can see the skeletons of dead sailors on the beach | 3 | |
| 9337213126 | How Atwood portrays the Sirens | Bored with their existence, but effective in fulfilling their purpose | 4 | |
| 9337411138 | Diction Atwood uses to characterize the Sirens | Bird suit, squatting, maniacs, boring | 5 | |
| 9337426675 | Siren | Mythical creature who was half bird, half woman | 6 | |
| 9337432394 | Odysseus | Devises a plan to safely sail past the Sirens | 7 |
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| 10190035088 | Act | A major division in a play. | 0 | |
| 10190035089 | Antagonist | The character against whom the protagonist struggles or contends. | 1 | |
| 10190035090 | Aside | In drama, a few words or short passages spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on the stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words. It is a theatrical convention that the aside is not audible to other characters on stage. | 2 | |
| 10190035091 | Character | Any representation of an individual being presented in a dramatic or narrative work through extended verbal representation. | 3 | |
| 10190035092 | Dynamic | A character who during the course of a story undergoes a permanent change in some aspect of character or outlook. | 4 | |
| 10190035093 | Flat | Built around a single idea or quality and unchanging over the course of the narrative. | 5 | |
| 10190035094 | Round | Complex in temperament and motivation; drawn with subtlety; capable of growth and change during the course of the narrative. | 6 | |
| 10190035095 | Static | A character who is the same sort of person at the end of a story as at the beginning. | 7 | |
| 10190035096 | Stock/Stereotype | A character type that appears repeatedly in a particular literary genre, one which has certain conventional attributes and attitudes. | 8 | |
| 10190035097 | Characterization | The way an author presents characters. | 9 | |
| 10190035098 | Direct or Explicit | A character is described by the author or the narrator. | 10 | |
| 10190035099 | Indirect or Implicit | A character's traits are revealed by thoughts, actions, speech/dialogue, or appearance, or reactions from other characters. | 11 | |
| 10190035100 | Climax | The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is t hereafter resolved. It is also the peak of emotional response from a reader or spectator and usually the turning point in the action. | 12 | |
| 10190035101 | Comedy | Came to mean any play or narrative poem in which the main characters manage to avert an impending disaster and have a happy ending. The comedy did not necessarily have to be funny, and indeed, many comedies are serious in tone. | 13 | |
| 10190035102 | Comic relief | A humorous scene, incident, character, or bit of dialogue occurring after some serious or tragic moment. Comic relief is deliberately designed to relieve emotional intensity and simultaneously heightens and highlight the seriousness or tragedy of the action. | 14 | |
| 10190035103 | Conflict | The opposition between two characters (such as a protagonist and an antagonist), between two large groups of people, or between the protagonist and a larger problem such as forces of nature, ideas, public mores, and so on. Conflict is the engine that drives the plot. | 15 | |
| 10190035104 | Crisis | The turning point of uncertainty and tension resulting from earlier conflict in a plot. It is the unraveling of the main dramatic complications in the play, novel, or other work of literature. Usually, the dénouement ends as quickly as the writer can arrange it - for it occurs only after all the conflicts have been resolved. | 16 | |
| 10190035105 | Denouement | Refers to the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot. It is the unraveling of the main dramatic complications in a play, novel, or other work of literature. | 17 | |
| 10190035106 | Epilogue | A conclusion added to a literary work such as a novel, play, or long poem. It is the opposite of a prologue. Often, the epilogue refers to the moral of a fable. Sometimes, it is a speech made by one of the actors at the end of a play asking for the indulgence of the critics and the audience. | 18 | |
| 10190035107 | Exposition | A setting forth of the meaning or purpose (as of a writing). Discourse or an example of it designed to convey information or explain what is difficult to understand. | 19 | |
| 10190035108 | Falling Action | That segment of the plot that comes between the climax and the conclusion; the fourth part of plot structure, in which the complications of the rising action are untangled. | 20 | |
| 10190035109 | Foil | A character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character. | 21 | |
| 10190035110 | Hero | A mythological or legendary figure of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability. (Leading male character). | 22 | |
| 10190035111 | Tragic Flaw | A fault or weakness in character in a tragic hero that leads to his/her downfall. | 23 | |
| 10190035112 | Tragic Hero | A human being who is not all good or all bad, but just by misfortune he/she is deprived of something very valuable to him or her; brought down by his/her tragic flaw. | 24 | |
| 10190035113 | Epic Hero | A human being with characteristics a society admires and often wished to emulate. The hero is male, attractive, and unusually strong and able. He is a trained soldier or warrior and believes in and follow the code of honor for which he is willing to sacrifice his life. He fights for a noble cause: those who cannot defend themselves, usually women and children; the preservation of a society; honor; a noble way of life. | 25 | |
| 10190035114 | Monologue | Used to refer to a character speaking aloud to himself, or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage. | 26 | |
| 10190035115 | Prologue | A section of any introductory material before the first chapter or the main material of a prose work, or any such material before the first stanza of a poetic work. | 27 | |
| 10190035116 | Protagonist | The main character in a work, on whom the author focuses most of the narrative attention; the good guy. | 28 | |
| 10190035117 | Rising Action | The action in a play or story that leads up to the climax. | 29 | |
| 10190035118 | Scene | A dramatic sequence that takes place within a single locale (or setting) on stage; often scenes serve as the subdivision of an act within a play. | 30 | |
| 10190035119 | Soliloquy | a monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone. The technique frequently reveals a character's innermost thoughts, including his feelings, state of mind, motives or intentions. The soliloquy often provides necessary but otherwise inaccessible information to the audience. The dramatic convention is that whatever a character says in a soliloquy to the audience must be true, or at least true in the eyes of the character speaking. | 31 | |
| 10190035120 | Atmosphere/Mood | The emotional feelings inspired by a work. Describes the dominant mood of a selection as it is created by diction, dialogue, setting, and description. | 32 | |
| 10190035121 | Detail/Sensory Detail | The use of images and descriptions that appeal to the senses in order to create a vivid, concrete image for the reader. | 33 | |
| 10190035122 | Dialogue | The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel, especially a conversation between two characters, or a literary work that takes the form of such a characterization. | 34 | |
| 10190035123 | Diction | The choice of a particular word as opposed to others; the word choice a writer makes determines the reader's reaction to the object of description, and contributes to the author's style and tone. | 35 | |
| 10190035124 | Colloquial | A word or phrase used every day in plain and relaxed speech, but rarely found in formal writing. | 36 | |
| 10190035125 | Connotation | The extra tinge or taint of meaning each word carries beyond the minimal, strict definition found in a dictionary. | 37 | |
| 10190035126 | Denotation | The minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary, disregarding any historical or emotional connotation. | 38 | |
| 10190035127 | Dialect | The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons; it encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other persons either geographically or socially. Dialect is a major technique of characterization that reveals the social or geographic status of a character. | 39 | |
| 10190035128 | Formal | Involves elaborate, technical, or polysyllabic vocabulary and careful attention to the proprieties of grammar. | 40 | |
| 10190035129 | Informal | Involves conversational or familiar language, contractions, slang, elision, and grammatical errors designed to convey a relaxed tone. | 41 | |
| 10190035130 | Jargon | Potentially confusing words or phrases used in an occupation, trade, or field of study. | 42 | |
| 10190035131 | Emphasis | The manipulation of language, sound, and sentence structure to place focus on an important point, to expand upon an idea, to help create rhythm, or to increase the feeling of unity in a work. | 43 | |
| 10190035132 | Ethos | Ethical appeals that target the audience's morals or sense of right and wrong. | 44 | |
| 10190035133 | Logos | Logical appeals that target the audience's reasoning abilities. | 45 | |
| 10190035134 | Pathos | Emotional appeals that target the audience's feelings. | 46 | |
| 10190035135 | Invective | Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep seated ill will. | 47 | |
| 10190035136 | Dramatic irony | When the reader or the audience knows something the character in the play or book does not know. | 48 | |
| 10190035137 | Situational Irony | When the opposite of what is expected to happen happens. | 49 | |
| 10190035138 | Verbal Irony | When someone says something, but means the opposite; sarcasm. | 50 | |
| 10190035139 | Pun | A play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning; example sun and son. | 51 | |
| 10190035140 | Sarcasm | A nother term for verbal irony - the act of ostensibly saying one thing while meaning another. | 52 | |
| 10190035141 | Slang | Informal diction or the use of vocabulary considered to be inconsistent with the preferred wording common among the educated or elite in a culture. | 53 | |
| 10190035142 | Sentence Variety | The use of different types of sentences and structures within sentences. | 54 | |
| 10190035143 | Tone | The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude. By looking carefully at the choices an author makes (in characters, incidents, setting; in the work's stylistic choices and diction, etc.), careful readers can often isolate the tone of a work and sometimes infer from it the underlying attitudes that control and color the story or poem as a whole. | 55 | |
| 10190035144 | Voice | The dominating ethos or tone of a literary work. The voice existing in literary work is not always identifiable with the actual view of the author. | 56 | |
| 10190035145 | Archetype | Universal narrative designs, character types, or images which are identifiable in a wide variety of works of literature, that are recognizable to and that evoke a response from the reader. | 57 | |
| 10190035146 | Flashback | A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness a past events - usually in the form of a character's memory | 58 | |
| 10190035147 | Foreshadowing | Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative. Foreshadowing often provides hints about what will happen next. | 59 | |
| 10190035148 | Incident | The component parts within the actions of a plot. | 60 | |
| 10190035149 | Motivation | The incentives or goals that, in combination with the inherent natures of the characters, cause them to behave as they do. In poor fiction actions may be unmotivated, insufficiently motivated, or implausibly motivated. | 61 | |
| 10190035150 | Narrative Voice | The "voice" that speaks or tells a story. Some stories are written in a first-person point of view, in which the narrator's voice is that of the point-of-view character. | 62 | |
| 10190035151 | Point of View | The way a story gets told and who tells it. It is the method of narration that determines the position, or angle of vision, from which the story unfolds. Point of view governs the reader's access to the story. | 63 | |
| 10190035152 | First Person | The narrator speaks as "I" and the narrator is a character in the story who may or may not influence events within it. | 64 | |
| 10190035153 | Objective | When the narrator reports speech and action but never comments on the thoughts of other characters. | 65 | |
| 10190035154 | Omniscient | A narrator who knows everything that needs to be known about the agents and events in the story, and is free to move at will in time and place, and who has privileged access to a character's thoughts, feelings, and motives. | 66 | |
| 10190035155 | Limited | A narrator who is confined to what is experienced, thought, or felt by a single character, or at most, a limited number of characters. | 67 | |
| 10190035156 | Third Person | The narrator seems to be someone standing outside the story who refers to all the characters by name or as he, she, they, and so on. | 68 | |
| 10190035157 | Theme | A central idea or statement that unifies and controls the entire work. The theme can take the form of a brief and meaningful insight or a comprehensive vision of life; it may be a single idea such as "progress," "order and duty," "seize-the-day," or "jealousy." A theme is the author's way of communicating and sharing ideas, perceptions, and feelings with readers, and it may be directly stated in a book, or it may only be implied. | 69 | |
| 10190035158 | Allusion | A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification. Allusions can originate in mythology, biblical references, literature, historical events, or legends. authors often use allusion to establish a tone, create an implied association, contrast two objects or people, make and unusual juxtaposition of references, or bring the reader into a world of experience outside the limitations of the story itself. | 70 | |
| 10190035159 | Apostrophe | Is the act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. An apostrophe is an example of a rhetorical trope. | 71 | |
| 10190035160 | Euphemism | A mild word or phrase which substitutes for another which would be undesirable because it is too direct, unpleasant, or offensive. | 72 | |
| 10190035161 | Hyperbole/overstatement | The trope of exaggeration or overstatement for effect. | 73 | |
| 10190035162 | Metaphor | A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking. | 74 | |
| 10190035163 | Motif | A conspicuous recurring element, such as a type of incident, a device, a reference, or verbal formula, which appears frequently in works of literature. | 75 | |
| 10190035164 | Onomatopoeia | The use of sounds that are like the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect. | 76 | |
| 10190035165 | Personification | A trope in which abstractions. | 77 | |
| 10190035166 | Simile | An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as, in contrast with another metaphor which figuratively makes the comparison by stating outright that one thing is another thing. | 78 | |
| 10190035167 | Symbol | Word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level. | 79 | |
| 10190035168 | Understatement | Form of meiosis using a negative statement; wildly exaggerating something for effect. | 80 | |
| 10190035169 | Argumentation | Rhetorical mode that functions by convincing or persuading an audience or by proving or refuting a point of view or issue. | 81 | |
| 10190035170 | Description | Mode of discourse that depicts images verbally in space and time and arranges those images in a logical pattern, such as spatial or by association. It is aimed at bringing something to life by telling how it looks, sounds, tastes, smells, feels, or acts. | 82 | |
| 10190035171 | Exposition | Mode of discourse that has a function to inform or to instruct or to present ideas and general truths objectively. It can incorporate any of the following organizational patterns: comparison; contrast; cause and effect; classification; division; definition. | 83 | |
| 10190035172 | Narration | The mode of discourse that tells a s tory or relates an event. It organizes the events or actions in time or relates them in space. Narration generally tells what happened, when it happened, and where it happened. | 84 | |
| 10190035173 | Genre | A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions. The three broadest categories of genre include poetry, drama, and fiction. | 85 | |
| 10190035174 | Novel | Fictional prose work of substantial length. The novel narrates the actions of characters who are entirely the invention of the author and who are placed in an imaginary setting. | 86 | |
| 10190035175 | Novella | A work of fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel. | 87 | |
| 10190035176 | Prose | Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry. | 88 | |
| 10190035177 | Verse | There are three general meanings for verse (1) a line of metrical writing, (2) a stanza, or (3) any composition written in meter. | 89 | |
| 10190035178 | Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Alliteration is often used to emphasize certain words or to create a musical quality. | 90 | |
| 10190035179 | Assonance | The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end with different consonant sounds. | 91 | |
| 10190035180 | Blank Verse | Poetry or lines of dramatic verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. | 92 | |
| 10190035181 | Cacophony | Language which seems harsh, rough, and unmusical - the discordancy is the aggregate effect of difficulty in pronunciation, sense, and sound. May be inadvertent or deliberate and functional. | 93 | |
| 10190035182 | Candence | The rhythmic sequence or flow in a line or lines of poetry. | 94 | |
| 10190035183 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds, typically within or at the end of nonrhyming words. | 95 | |
| 10190035184 | Couplet | Two lines of rhymed verse that work together as a unit to express an idea or make a point. | 96 | |
| 10190035185 | Dramatic Monologue | A form of dramatic poetry in which the speaker describes a crucial moment in his or her life to a silent listener - and in the process, reveals much about his or her own character. The speaker may be fictional or historical figure and is clearly distinct from the poet. | 97 | |
| 10190035186 | End-stopped Line | A line of poetry in which the end of the line occurs naturally at the end of the sentence. | 98 | |
| 10190035187 | Epic | A long, narrative poem that recounts, in formal language, the exploits of a larger-than-life hero. Epic plots typically involve supernatural events, long time periods, distant journeys, and life and death struggles between good and evil. | 99 | |
| 10190065661 | Euphony | A term applied to language which seems to the ear to be smooth, pleasant, and musical. | 100 | |
| 10190065662 | Foot | A basic unit of meter consisting of one or two stressed syllables and/or one or two unstressed syllables. | 101 | |
| 10190065663 | Free Verse | Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement; it generally imitates natural forms of speech. | 102 | |
| 10190065664 | Iamb | A metric unit, or foot, consisting of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. | 103 | |
| 10190065665 | Iambic pentameter | A specific poetic meter in which each line has five metric units, or feet, and each foot consists of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable. | 104 | |
| 10190065666 | Imagery | The "word pictures" that writers create to help evoke an emotional response in readers. | 105 | |
| 10190065667 | Lyric | Poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings. Lyric poems are usually short and musical, with an emphasis on emotion. | 106 | |
| 10190065668 | Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm. | 107 | |
| 10190065669 | Pentameter | A line of poetry consisting of five feet. | 108 | |
| 10190065670 | Persona/Speaker | The first-person narrator of a narrative poem or novel, or the lyric speaker whose voice we listen to in a lyric poem. | 109 | |
| 10190065671 | Quatrain | A four-line poem or stanza | 110 | |
| 10190065672 | Repetition | The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a speech or piece of writing. Writers use repetition to emphasize an important point, to expand upon an idea, to help create rhythm, and to increase the feeling of unity in a work. | 111 | |
| 10190065673 | Rhyme | The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words. | 112 | |
| 10190065674 | End | Occurs at the end of lines. | 113 | |
| 10190065675 | Internal | Occurs within a line of poetry. | 114 | |
| 10190065676 | Scansions | The analysis of the meter of a line of verse. To scan a line of poetry means to note the stressed and unstressed syllables and to ivied the line into its feet, or rhythmical units. | 115 | |
| 10190065677 | Sonnet | A lyric poem of fourteen lines, typically written in iambic pentameter and usually following strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme. | 116 | |
| 10190065678 | English/Shakespearean Sonnet | A sonnet consisting of three quatrains, or four-line stanzas, followed by a couplet, a pair of rhyming lines. The rhyme scheme is usually abab, cdcd/efef, gg. | 117 | |
| 10190065679 | Stanza | A group of lines forming a unit in a poem; a stanza in a poem is like a paragraph in prose. | 118 | |
| 10190065680 | Stressed/Unstressed Syllables | Determined by the relative loudness in the pronunciation of one syllable compared to another. | 119 | |
| 10190065681 | Antithesis | Using opposite phrases in close conjunction. Examples might be, "I burn I freeze," or "Her character is white as sunlight, black as midnight." The best antitheses express their contrary ideas in a balanced sentence. It can be a contrast of opposites. | 120 | |
| 10190065682 | Complex Sentence | Consists of one independent clause, and one or more dependent clauses. The clauses are connected through either a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun. The dependent clause may be the first or second clause in the sentence. If the first clause in the sentence is dependent, a comma usually separates the two clauses. | 121 | |
| 10190065683 | Ellipsis | The ellipsis consists of three evenly spaced dots (periods) with spaces between the ellipsis and surrounding letters or other marks. | 122 | |
| 10190065684 | Juxtaposition | An image-development strategy used to place like or contrasting images side by side. | 123 | |
| 10190065685 | Parallel Structure | Parallel structure means using the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance. | 124 | |
| 10190065686 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end. | 125 |
AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 9887733650 | Expository | explanatory; intended to explain | 0 | |
| 9887733651 | Elegy | a sad or mournful poem | 1 | |
| 9887733652 | Epigram | a witty saying | 2 | |
| 9887733653 | Internal Rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line | 3 | |
| 9887733654 | Prose | ordinary writing as distinguished from verse; anything that is not poetic | 4 | |
| 9887733655 | Confidante | character who shares secrets, personal information, or discussions of intimate or internal conflicts with another | 5 | |
| 9887733656 | Connotation | an idea that is implied or suggested; implied or suggested meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition | 6 | |
| 9887733657 | Denotation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; dictionary definition | 7 | |
| 9887733658 | Form | give shape to; how something appears; an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse | 8 | |
| 9887733659 | Selection or Choice of Details | - | 9 | |
| 9887733660 | Perspective | the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer; point of view | 10 | |
| 9887733661 | Meter | rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time; in literature (specifically poetry), this is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 11 | |
| 9887733662 | Euphemisms | words or terms used to make something sound less unpleasent | 12 | |
| 9887733663 | Parody | a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way; a work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements. . It can be utterly mocking or gently humorous. It depends on allusion and exaggerates and distorts the original style and content. | 13 | |
| 9887733664 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person; when a speaker addresses someone/something that isn't there. | 14 | |
| 9887733665 | Parallel Structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 15 | |
| 9887733666 | Exposition | an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse; background information | 16 | |
| 9887733667 | Modifier | a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb; a word, phrase, or clause that qualifies or describes another word, phrase, or clause. | 17 | |
| 9887733668 | Subordinate Clause | a group of words containing both a subject and a verb that cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence | 18 | |
| 9887733669 | Mock Heroic | mocking or burlesquing any style, action, or character | 19 | |
| 9887733670 | Extended Metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work | 20 | |
| 9887733671 | Allegory | -A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning -uses different elements to represent different things. In other words, whereas symbolism usually has one thing representing some idea, an allegory is comprised of a series of symbols that individually represent various ideas Allegories always strive to convey ONE PARTICULAR message | 21 | |
| 9887733672 | rhetorical | concerned with *effect* or style of writing and speaking; relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect | 22 | |
| 9887733673 | literal | exactly as written or spoken; direct; Not figurative | 23 | |
| 9887733674 | figurative | not literal; metaphorical; symbolic; using a figure of speech | 24 | |
| 9887733675 | allusion | A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize; passing reference or indirect mention | 25 | |
| 9887733676 | argumentative | controversial, disputable; disputatious | 26 | |
| 9887733677 | metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity;, A comparison without using like or as | 27 | |
| 9887733678 | tone | the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; the writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of a story, toward a character, or toward the audience (the readers). | 28 | |
| 9887733679 | satirical (satire, satirize) | The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues | 29 | |
| 9887733680 | understatement | the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended. | 30 | |
| 9887733681 | hyperbole | Extreme exaggeration | 31 | |
| 9887733682 | diction | author's word choice | 32 | |
| 9887733683 | imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events; description that appeals to the senses | 33 | |
| 9887733684 | alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; | 34 | |
| 9887733685 | syntax (syntactical patterns) | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences; a systematic orderly arrangement | 35 | |
| 9887733686 | narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 36 | |
| 9887733687 | paradox | (logic) a self-contradiction | 37 | |
| 9887733688 | Structure | the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; , the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work | 38 | |
| 9887733689 | Point of View | vantage point from which a writer tells a story or presents an argument | 39 | |
| 9887733690 | Narrative Prose | a kind of writing that tells a story | 40 | |
| 9887733691 | Perspective | a way of regarding situations or topics etc; point of view | 41 | |
| 9887733692 | Style | The author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects. An important part of interpreting and understanding fiction is being attentive to the way the author uses words. | 42 | |
| 9887733693 | Speaker | the voice that communicates with the reader of the poem or play; the voice that talks to the audience | 43 | |
| 9887733694 | Puns | a humorous play on words | 44 | |
| 9887733695 | Abstraction | a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples; a generality; an idea or thought separated from concrete reality | 45 | |
| 9887733696 | Rhythm | The varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech, especially poetry. In verse _ is normally regular; in prose it may or may not be regular. | 46 | |
| 9887733697 | Oxymoron | a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms | 47 | |
| 9887733698 | verbal irony | when what is said is the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm) | 48 | |
| 9887733699 | situational irony | actual events or circumstances are the opposite of what is anticipated | 49 | |
| 9887733700 | dramatic irony | situation in which the audience knows more than the character | 50 | |
| 9887733701 | Antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers. | 51 | |
| 9887733702 | Symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | 52 | |
| 9887733703 | Foreshadowing | Hinting at future events; the presentation of material in such a way that the reader is prepared for what is to come later in the work | 53 | |
| 9887733704 | Narrative Structure | story-form; chronological organization used to convey a story | 54 | |
| 9887733705 | Choice of Details | *Fact, statistic,quotation,evidence that supports the author's position | 55 | |
| 9887733706 | Allegory | a narrative in verse or prose in which the literal events consistently point to a parallel sequence of symbolic ideas ex: Faith as a name | 56 | |
| 9887733707 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse; | 57 | |
| 9887733708 | Allusion | a reference to a person, place, event, or literary work which a writer expects the reader to recognize | 58 | |
| 9887733709 | Apostrophe | address to an absent or imaginary person | 59 | |
| 9887733710 | Approximate Rhyme | rhyme in which the final sounds of words are similar but not identical (Ex. Blue and Threw; map and shape; ravine and stream) | 60 | |
| 9887733711 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words | 61 | |
| 9887733712 | Blank Verse | unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter) | 62 | |
| 9887733713 | Cacophony | loud confusing disagreeable sounds; harsh sounds (Ex. She sells sea shells by the sea shore.) | 63 | |
| 9887733714 | Connotation | emotional word associations usually based on individual experience, regional experience or universal implication | 64 | |
| 9887733715 | Consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | 65 | |
| 9887733716 | Continuous Form | *poetry not divided into stanzas*; Lines follow each other without any type of structural organization except by units/blocks of meaning. | 66 | |
| 9887733717 | Couplet | two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme | 67 | |
| 9887733718 | Denoation | the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; dictionary definition | 68 | |
| 9887733719 | Dramatic Irony | situation in which the audience knows more than the character | 69 | |
| 9887733720 | End Rhyme | a word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line | 70 | |
| 9887733721 | End-stopped Line | A line that ends with a natural speech pause, usually marked by punctuation; a poetic line that has a pause at the end | 71 | |
| 9887733722 | English (or Shakespearean) sonnet | (14 lines) Three quatrains followed by a couplet The most common rhyme scheme for this sonnet is abab cdcd efef gg | 72 | |
| 9887733723 | Euphony | any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; pleasant sounding | 73 | |
| 9887733724 | Extended Figure | A figure of speech (apostrophe, simile, metaphor, etc.) which is sustained or developed throughout a poem. | 74 | |
| 9887733725 | Feminine Rhyme | latter two syllables of first word rhyme with latter two syllables of second word (ceiling appealing); *a rhyme of two syllables, one stressed and one unstressed, as "waken" and "forsaken" and "audition" and "rendition;" sometimes called double rhyme.* | 75 | |
| 9887733726 | Foot | a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm | 76 | |
| 9887733727 | Free verse | Poetry that does not have a regular meter (rhythm) or rhyme scheme | 77 | |
| 9887733728 | Haiku | 3 unrhymed lines (5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) | 78 | |
| 9887733729 | Imagery | the ability to form mental images of things or events; description that appeals to the senses | 79 | |
| 9887733730 | Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnet | Developed by the Italian poet Petrarch, this sonnet is divided into an *octave* (eight lines) with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA or ABBACDDC *and* a *sestet* (six lines) with the rhyme scheme CDECDE or CDCCDC | 80 | |
| 9887733731 | Masculine Rhyme | final syllable of first word rhymes with final syllable of second word (ex: scald recalled); | 81 | |
| 9887733732 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity; A comparison without using like or as | 82 | |
| 9887733733 | Meter | rhythm; in literature (specifically poetry), this is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables | 83 | |
| 9887733734 | Metonomy | a figure of speech which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | 84 | |
| 9887733735 | Octave | a rhythmic group of eight lines of verse (poetry); 8 line stanza | 85 | |
| 9887733736 | Onomatopeia | words that imitate sounds of the actions they refer to; using words that imitate the sound they denote | 86 | |
| 9887733737 | Overstatement (hyperbole) | extravagant exaggeration | 87 | |
| 9887733738 | Paradox | an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth; a self-contradictory statement | 88 | |
| 9887733739 | Paraphrase | preserve meaning in other words; to reword something; express the same message in different words | 89 | |
| 9887733740 | Personification | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature; giving something other than a human human-like qualities | 90 | |
| 9887733741 | Prose | *Non-poetic*; ordinary writing as distinguished from verse | 91 | |
| 9887733742 | Quatrain | a stanza of four lines | 92 | |
| 9887733743 | Refrain | a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song; a sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem | 93 | |
| 9887733744 | Rhythm | The varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech, especially poetry. In verse _ is normally regular; in prose it may or may not be regular; the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; *pattern/beat* | 94 | |
| 9887733745 | Run-on-line (or enjambment) | a line of verse that does not end in punctuation, but carries on grammatically to the next line; continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break | 95 | |
| 9887733746 | Sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain | 96 | |
| 9887733747 | Satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly | 97 | |
| 9887733748 | Scansion | The process of measuring the stresses in a line of verse in order to determine the metrical pattern (type/number of feet) of the line. | 98 | |
| 9887733749 | Sestet | a rhythmic group of six lines of verse; six line stanza | 99 | |
| 9887733750 | Simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | 100 | |
| 9887733751 | Situational Irony | actual events or circumstances are the opposite of what is anticipated | 101 | |
| 9887733752 | Sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | 102 | |
| 9887733753 | Symbol | the literal use of an object, person, action or event that stands for something more than itself and suggests a larger, perhaps more universal meaning. | 103 | |
| 9887733754 | Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work; a central message,concern or purpose that usually expresses a general idea about human begins or about life | 104 | |
| 9887733755 | Tone | refers to the manner of speaking that an author uses; may be revealed in the *attitude* toward the characters and the subject, the construction of sentence patterns, word usage, figurative language; creates spirit and attitude. | 105 | |
| 9887733756 | Understatement | a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said | 106 | |
| 9887733757 | Verbal Irony | when what is said is the opposite of what is meant (sarcasm) | 107 | |
| 9887733758 | Analogy | drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect (ex. You are as annoying as nails on a chalkboard). | 108 | |
| 9887733759 | Antithesis | a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced (ex. You're easy on the eyes, hard on the heart) | 109 | |
| 9887733760 | Caesura | a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line | 110 | |
| 9887733761 | Catalog | A complete list of items, typically in alphabetical or other systematic order (ex. x, son of y, son of z) | 111 | |
| 9887733762 | Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that manifests itself throughout a piece of literature (mostly poetry) | 112 | |
| 9887733763 | Diction | author's word choice | 113 | |
| 9887733764 | Internal Rhyme | when two words in the same line rhyme | 114 | |
| 9887733765 | Inversion | when two expressions switch their canonical order of appearance (ex. Are you coming?) | 115 | |
| 9887733766 | Juxtoposition | placing words, phrases, characters, etc. in close proximity for comparison or ironic effect | 116 | |
| 9887733767 | Litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) --> ex. not the best = bad | 117 | |
| 9887733768 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (ex. deafening silence; cruel kindness) | 118 | |
| 9887733769 | Pun | A play on words involving the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings (sun/son), | 119 | |
| 9887733770 | Anachromism | something out of place in time; unchronological | 120 | |
| 9887733771 | Anecdote | short account of an incident (especially a biographical one) | 121 | |
| 9887733772 | Catharsis | a release of emotional tension; purification/cleansing that brings emotional relief or renewal | 122 | |
| 9887733773 | Foil | a character who is used in contrast with another character in order to highlight particular (usually good) qualities of the other character (ex. pretty girls like plain friends because their beauty is accentuated) | 123 | |
| 9887733774 | Parody | humorous or satirical mimicry; a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way | 124 | |
| 9887733775 | Pathos | emotional appeal; a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | 125 | |
| 9887733776 | Rhyme Scheme | the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song. | 126 | |
| 9887733777 | Sight/Visual Rhyme | A rhyme that looks like it should rhyme but doesn't (food/good); similar spelling, different pronounciation | 127 | |
| 9887733778 | Soliloquy | speech you make to yourself (usually a long reflection) | 128 | |
| 9887733779 | Stream of Consciousness | the continuous flow of ideas and feelings that constitute an individual's conscious experience; the presentation thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur. | 129 |
AP Literature Vocab Flashcards
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| 7464861814 | Brazen (adj) | bold and without shame | 0 | |
| 7464861815 | compunction | Feeling of regret or remorse | 1 | |
| 7464861816 | Din | a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise | 2 | |
| 7464861817 | Edict | An order issued by someone in authority | 3 | |
| 7464861818 | Indiscretion | behavior or speech that is indiscreet or displays a lack of good judgment. | 4 | |
| 7464861819 | perquisite | a privilege that goes along with a job; a "perk" | 5 | |
| 7464861820 | Sepulcher (n) | Small room made out of stone with a dead body in it. | 6 | |
| 7464861821 | Suppliant | a person making a humble plea to someone in power or authority | 7 | |
| 7464861822 | tumult (n) | commotion (as of a crowd), violent uproar | 8 | |
| 7464861823 | Marauding (adj.) | Going in search of things to steal or people to attack | 9 | |
| 7464861824 | Admonish (v) | Warn someone of something to be avoided | 10 | |
| 7464861825 | akimbo | (adj.) - with hands on hips and elbows extending outward | 11 | |
| 7464861826 | Lassitude | weariness of body or mind, lack of energy | 12 | |
| 7464861827 | licentious | morally unrestrained | 13 | |
| 7464861828 | Muse (n) | A person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist | 14 | |
| 7464861829 | Pecuniary | relating to money | 15 | |
| 7464861830 | Plight | A difficult or dangerous condition or situation | 16 | |
| 7464861831 | presumptuous | assuming too much; arrogant | 17 | |
| 7464861832 | subversive | Intended to undermine or overthrow | 18 | |
| 7464861833 | vacuous | lacking ideas or intelligence | 19 | |
| 7622903314 | avocation | An activity pursued for pleasure; a hobby | 20 | |
| 7622945499 | callous | Emotionally hardened, unfeeling | 21 | |
| 7622945500 | Capricious | given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior | 22 | |
| 7622945501 | disparity | inequality; difference | 23 | |
| 7622945502 | Efficacy | the ability to produce a desired or intended result | 24 | |
| 7622945503 | Epistle | a letter or literary composition in letter form | 25 | |
| 7622945504 | Hospice | a shelter for travelers, orphans, or the ill or destitute | 26 | |
| 7622945505 | impetus | a moving force, impulse, stimulus | 27 | |
| 7622945506 | moribund | dying, on the way out | 28 | |
| 7622945507 | Vacillate | alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive | 29 | |
| 7894005238 | akin | related to or alike | 30 | |
| 7894005239 | corroborate | to confirm | 31 | |
| 7894005240 | inexorable | impossible to stop or prevent | 32 | |
| 7894005241 | insipid | lacking interest or flavor | 33 | |
| 7894005242 | nefarious | extremely wicked | 34 | |
| 7894005243 | zeitgeist | the spirit of the time | 35 | |
| 7894005244 | retinue | a group that attends an important person | 36 | |
| 7894005245 | Hubris | Excessive pride | 37 | |
| 7894005246 | Tedium (n) | boredom, sameness, monotony | 38 | |
| 7894005247 | torrid | giving off intense heat, passionate | 39 | |
| 7956218519 | affront (n) | personal offense, insult | 40 | |
| 7956218520 | obsequious | overly submissive and eager to please | 41 | |
| 7956218521 | cajole (v) | persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax | 42 | |
| 7956218522 | choleric | (adj.) easily made angry, bad-tempered | 43 | |
| 7956218523 | encumber | (v.) to weigh down or burden (with difficulties, cares, debt, etc.); to fill up, block up, hinder | 44 | |
| 7956218524 | feckless (adj) | lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable | 45 | |
| 7956218525 | impasse (n) | a dead end | 46 | |
| 7956218526 | indolent | lazy | 47 | |
| 7956218527 | lugubrious | sorrowful; mournful; dismal | 48 | |
| 7956218528 | ribald (adj) | humorous in a vulgar way | 49 |
AP Literature Review Flashcards
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| 9890736879 | Lyric | expresses a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings | 0 | |
| 9890736880 | Sonnet | 14 line lyric poem, fixed rhyme scheme, fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line) | 1 | |
| 9890736881 | Ode | a lyric poem that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very precise, formal structure | 2 | |
| 9890736882 | Blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter | 3 | |
| 9890736883 | Free verse | no fixed meter or rhyme | 4 | |
| 9890736884 | Epic | a long narrative poem celebrating the adventures and acheivements of a hero | 5 | |
| 9890736885 | Dramatic monologue | character "speaks" through the poem; a character study | 6 | |
| 9890736886 | Elegy | poem which expresses sorow over a death of someone for whom the poet cared, or on another solemn theme | 7 | |
| 9890736887 | Ballad | a form of verse, often a narrative story and set to music | 8 | |
| 9890736888 | Villanelle | consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes | 9 | |
| 9890736889 | Meter | regularized rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables; accents occur at approx. equal intervals of time | 10 | |
| 9890736890 | Cacophony | harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words | 11 | |
| 9890736891 | Conceit | an extended witty, paradoxical, or startling metaphor | 12 | |
| 9890736892 | Assonance | repetition at close intervals of vowel sounds | 13 | |
| 9890736893 | Irony | incongruity or discrepancy between the implied and expected; verbal, dramatic, situational | 14 | |
| 9890736894 | Paradox | statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements | 15 | |
| 9890736895 | Repetition | the simple repetition of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line | 16 | |
| 9890736896 | Iambic pentameter | 70% of verse is written this way; ten syllables per line, following an order of unaccented-accented syllables | 17 | |
| 9890736897 | Scansion | analysis of a poem's meter: the dividing of verse (lines of poetry) into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables to determine the meter of a poem | 18 | |
| 9890736898 | Foot | two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in a poem | 19 | |
| 9890736899 | Stanza | a group of lines forming a unit in a poem | 20 | |
| 9890736900 | Caesura | a natural pause in the middle of a line, sometimes coinciding with punctuation | 21 | |
| 9890736901 | Enjambment | describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line | 22 | |
| 9890736902 | Rhyme/rime | repetition of end sounds | 23 | |
| 9890736903 | End rhyme | occurs at the end of lines | 24 | |
| 9890736904 | Internal rhyme | repetition of sounds within a line (but not at the end of the line) | 25 | |
| 9890736905 | Couplet | two successive lines which rhyme, usually at the end of a work | 26 | |
| 9890736906 | Tercet | three-line stanza | 27 | |
| 9890736907 | Metaphor | implied or direct comparison | 28 | |
| 9890736908 | Rhyme scheme | a pattern of rhymes formed by the end rhyme(aa,bb,cc) | 29 | |
| 9890736909 | Consonance | repetition at close intervals of final consonant sounds | 30 | |
| 9890736910 | Symbolism | when a concrete object or image represents an abstract idea | 31 | |
| 9890736911 | Oxymoron | compact paradoxl two successive words contradict each other | 32 | |
| 9890736912 | Iamb | a metrical foot of two syllables, one short(unstressed) and one long(stressed) | 33 | |
| 9890736913 | Quatrain | four-line stanza | 34 | |
| 9890736914 | Cinquain | five-line stanza | 35 | |
| 9890736915 | Sestet | six-line stanza | 36 | |
| 9890736916 | Personification | giving a non-human the characteristics of a human | 37 | |
| 9890736917 | Apostrophe | someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply | 38 | |
| 9890736918 | Metonymy | symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House) | 39 | |
| 9890736919 | Synecdoche | symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board) | 40 | |
| 9890736920 | Hyperbole | exaggeration, overstatement | 41 | |
| 9890736921 | Litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite | 42 | |
| 9890736922 | onomatopoeia | use of words which mimic their meaning in sound | 43 | |
| 9890736923 | Euphony | pleasant, easy to articulate words | 44 | |
| 9890736924 | Simile | comparison using 'like' or 'as' | 45 | |
| 9890736925 | Slant rhyme/half rhyme | words with similar but not identical sounds | 46 | |
| 9890736926 | Alliteration | repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words | 47 | |
| 9890736927 | Imagery | representation through language of a sensory experience | 48 | |
| 9890736928 | Allusion | makes reference to another piece of literature, a person, or event in history, sports, television, etc. | 49 | |
| 9890736929 | Tone | writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly | 50 | |
| 9890736930 | Point of View | perspective from which a story is told | 51 | |
| 9890736931 | Setting | the time and place of the action of the work | 52 | |
| 9890736932 | Figurative Language | Language enriched by word meanings and figures of speech (i.e., similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole) | 53 | |
| 9890736933 | Jargon | terminology that relates to a specific activity, profession or group | 54 | |
| 9890736934 | Motif | detail within the story that repeats itself throughout the work | 55 | |
| 9890736935 | Sestina | consists of six 6-line stanzas, concluding with a 3-line "envoi" which incorporates all the line-ending words;rather than simply rhyming, the actual line-ending words are repeated in successive stanzas in a designated rotating order | 56 | |
| 9890736936 | Style | the elements that make a writer unique; i.e. vocabulary, diction, syntax, etc | 57 | |
| 9890736937 | Interior monologue | thinking in words, also known as inner voice, internal speech, or stream of consciousness | 58 | |
| 9890736938 | Antagonist | someone who offers opposition | 59 | |
| 9890736939 | Maxim | A succinct formulation of a fundamental principle; saying | 60 | |
| 9890736940 | Rhetoric | the art or technique of persuasion through the use of oral, visual, or written language. | 61 | |
| 9890736941 | Rhetorical mode | patterns of organization aimed at achieving a particular effect in the reader; Narration and Description, Process, Cause/Effect, Comparison/Contrast, Illustration, Argumentative and Persuasive, Definition, and Classification/Division | 62 | |
| 9890736942 | Pathos | a style that has the power to evoke feelings | 63 | |
| 9890736943 | Romanticism | a return to nature and to belief in the goodness of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect | 64 | |
| 9890736944 | Gothic Novel | genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance | 65 | |
| 9890736945 | Limerick | a humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba | 66 | |
| 9890736946 | Theme | the main idea or message found in the work | 67 | |
| 9890736947 | Syntax | sentence structure | 68 | |
| 9890736948 | Grotesque | a character or location that is irregular, extravagant or fantastic in form | 69 | |
| 9890736949 | Connotation | what a word suggests beyond its surface definition | 70 | |
| 9890736950 | Euphemism | a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept | 71 | |
| 9890736951 | Allegory | characters are symbols, has a moral | 72 | |
| 9890736952 | Foil | a character that contrasts with another character, usually the protagonist, and so highlights various facets of the main character's personality | 73 | |
| 9890736953 | Parable | a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse, that illustrates a moral or religious lesson | 74 | |
| 9890736954 | Protagonist | main character | 75 | |
| 9890736955 | Homily | an inspirational saying or platitude, usually refers to religious readings | 76 | |
| 9890736956 | Prose | written or spoken language that does not use any particular rhythm | 77 | |
| 9890736957 | Atmosphere | The mood the reader gets from the setting, the characterization and the tone of the narrator. | 78 | |
| 9890736958 | Pastoral | rural subjects | 79 | |
| 9890736959 | Versimilitude | realistic writing | 80 | |
| 9890736960 | Extended metaphor | uses an entire poem to develop a single metaphor | 81 | |
| 9890736961 | Heroic couplet | traditional form for English poetry, commonly used for epic and narrative poetry; lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme in pairs (aa, bb, cc) | 82 | |
| 9890736962 | Parallelism | presents coordinating ideas in a coordinating manner | 83 | |
| 9890736963 | Satire | literary tone used to ridicule or make fun of human vice or weakness, often with the intent of correcting, or changing, the subject of the satiric attack | 84 | |
| 9890736964 | Ambiguity | unclear meaning | 85 | |
| 9890736965 | Diction | word choice | 86 | |
| 9890736966 | Parody | (lampoon) a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject | 87 | |
| 9890736967 | Denotation | basic definition or dictionary meaning of a word | 88 | |
| 9890736968 | Inversion/anastrophe | Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words, for example: To market went she | 89 | |
| 9890736969 | Rhyme royal | seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc | 90 | |
| 9890736970 | Novella | fictional, prose narrative longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel | 91 | |
| 9890736971 | Renaissance | ideals of kingship | 92 | |
| 9890736972 | Colloqialism | an expression not used in formal speech, or writing: y'all, gonna | 93 | |
| 9890736973 | Mood | the atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem | 94 | |
| 9890736974 | Syllogism | EX: All girls play soccer. I am a girl. Therefore, I play soccer. | 95 | |
| 9890736975 | Local color | fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features including characters, dialects, customs and topography - of a particular region | 96 | |
| 9890736976 | Stream of conciousness | the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur | 97 | |
| 9890736977 | Foreshadowing | hinting at things to come | 98 |
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