AP psych- Language Flashcards
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| 7849213661 | Phonemes | smallest unit of sound | 0 | |
| 7849216975 | Morphemes | smallest way you can break down a word | 1 | |
| 7849220223 | Syntax | word order of a sentence | 2 | |
| 7849220326 | Grammar | let us communicate in a given language | 3 | |
| 7849223373 | Semantics | derive meaning from words (read or read) | 4 | |
| 7849229727 | cooing | making vowel sounds as a baby | 5 | |
| 7849232557 | babbling | vowels and consonants ex. googoogaga | 6 | |
| 7849235132 | one word speech | speaking one word but don't combine words | 7 | |
| 7849238313 | Telegraphic Speech | When they start to put words together; not sentences | 8 | |
| 7849246358 | Overregularization/ overgeneralization | using 1 grammar rule and applying it to all words ` | 9 | |
| 7849253727 | Noam Chomsky | American linguist | 10 | |
| 7849259950 | Benjamin Whorf | linguistic Relativity | 11 | |
| 7849304271 | language "Critical period" Acquisition Device | Window in time where language has to be learned | 12 |
AP LITERATURE VOCAB SET Flashcards
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| 6827752038 | Abstractions | Something that exists only as an idea. Example: "The question can no longer be treated as an academic abstraction" | 0 | |
| 6827756768 | Allegory | A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions. Example: "Pilgrim's Progress is an allegory of the spiritual journey" | 1 | |
| 6827760441 | Analysis of a process | A method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something. Example: How To tie your shoes. | 2 | |
| 6827760442 | Anapest | Two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable Example: That host [with] their ban[ners] at sun[set] were seen: " | 3 | |
| 6827760443 | Anaphora | A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines, clauses, or sentences. Example: Do in "I like it and so do they." | 4 | |
| 6827764144 | Anecdotal narrative | A short account of an interesting or amusing incident usually intended to illustrate or support some point in an essay, article, or chapter of a book. Example: A group of coworkers are discussing pets, and one coworker tells a story about how her cat comes downstairs at only a certain time of the night. | 5 | |
| 6827764145 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. Example: "The weather is great today; let's make the most of it by going to the beach." | 6 | |
| 6827764158 | Apostraphe | a figure of speech in which a speaker addresses a dead or non-present entity, an abstract quality or non-human as if it were present. Example: "Roll on blue ocean." | 7 | |
| 6827768532 | Ballad Meter | a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four. Example: Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling From glen to glen, and down the mountain side The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying 'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide. | 8 | |
| 6827768538 | Biblical Allusions | References to figures, stories, or settings from the bible. Example: Antedeluvian is Latin for "before the flood," referring to the flood Noah rode out in Genesis. | 9 | |
| 6827768539 | Blank verse | Unrhymed iambic pentameter. Example: Something there is that doesn't love a wall. That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; | 10 | |
| 6827768540 | Categorical assertion | States how one thing relates to another in its entirety. Example: All parents worry about their children. | 11 | |
| 6827776493 | Cause and effect analysis | This type of expository essay shows the causal link between one or more events or conditions. Examples: Electronic system is describe as casual in nature having a relationships between input and output. | 12 | |
| 6827776494 | Celebratory ode | Celebrates something. Example: All hail the brave and wise Latina! Compelling is her story! And jurisprudence her demeanor — She's on the path to glory! | 13 | |
| 6827776510 | Classification and comparrison | Grouping of parts into classes or part families based on design attributes; when coding we assign numbers/symbols to them. Example: The whole Hindu population of India can be divided into four castes or varna. | 14 | |
| 6827776511 | Complex structure | one independent clause & at least one dependent clause. Example: "John left when his sister arrived." | 15 | |
| 6827776512 | Conclusive logic | putting an end to debate or question especially by reason of irrefutably. Example: the archaeological discovery was conclusive proof that the Vikings had indeed settled in North America around 1000 a.d. | 16 | |
| 6827780025 | Couplet | A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. Example: "Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,/Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope." | 17 | |
| 6827780136 | Dactyl | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. Example: Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd | 18 | |
| 6827780137 | Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words. Example: "Hey, what's up, man? Lookin' cool in those shades you're wearin'!" | 19 | |
| 6828084779 | Dimeter | 2 feet per line. Example: When I descend Toward the brink I stand and look And stop and drink And bathe my wings, | 20 | |
| 6828086811 | Discursive Memoir | personal experience. Example: Autobiography | 21 | |
| 6828086812 | Dramatic Dialogue | Playwrights also indicate non-verbal communication: silences, gestures, rhythms, and visual images. Example: JIM: Aw, aw, aw. Is it broken? LAURA: Now it is just like all the other horses. JIM: It's lost its— LAURA: Horn! It doesn't matter. . . . [smiling] I'll just imagine he had an operation. The horn was removed to make him feel less—freakish! | 22 | |
| 6828089956 | Dramatic Irony | Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. Example: Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman. | 23 | |
| 6828092199 | Elaborate Metaphors | A metaphor that an author develops over the course of many lines or an entire piece of literature. Example: "Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down." | 24 | |
| 6828092200 | Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech. Example: "Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,/Compels me to disturb your season due:/For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime,/Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer" | 25 | |
| 6828094692 | Elevated Diction | formal or lofty speech. Example: "Could you be so kind as to pass me the milk?" Vs. "Give me that!" | 26 | |
| 6828094693 | Ellipsis | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods. Example: "...sure." | 27 | |
| 6828096158 | Emblem | a symbol, sign, token. Example: On the sides of the cake, she drew the Toyota emblem, finishing up with some scrolls. | 28 | |
| 6828096159 | Euphemisms | a word used in place of another word that is viewed as more disagreeable or offensive. Example: ""downsizing" as a euphemism for cuts" | 29 | |
| 6828100979 | Evaluative Arguments | An evaluative argument makes a judgment on the performance of a particular item in its category. Example: "good" or "fair" or "unusual," etc. Or you may use any other term that connotes evaluation - i.e., "wise," "unwise," "solid," "shaky," "unfortunate." | 30 | |
| 6828103431 | Expository | Explanatory. Example: "Chocolate chip cookies are one of the most popular desserts in the world. They can be either crispy or soft and have a sweet smell to them reminiscent of a bakery. They taste rich and melt in your mouth. When they bake, they 'wrinkle' up in the oven, and the combination of the nooks and crannies in the dough with the mouth-watering chocolate chips on top make them hard to resist." | 31 | |
| 6828104763 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work. Example: "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief." | 32 | |
| 6828104764 | First person Narrative | a narrative told by a character involved in the story, using first-person pronouns. Example: "I" and "We" | 33 | |
| 6828107278 | Foreshadow | A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader. Example: A gun is a sign of upcoming events. Sometimes it will be hidden in a drawer or glove compartment. | 34 | |
| 6828107279 | Heroic Epic | epic that has the main purpose of telling the life story of a great hero. Example: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace | 35 | |
| 6828109929 | Hexameter | 6 feet per line. Example: Now had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer, And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion enters. Birds of passage sailed through the leaden air, from the ice-bound, Desolate northern bays to the shores of tropical islands. | 36 | |
| 6828109930 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor. Example: It was so cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets. | 37 | |
| 6828112602 | Hypothetical | based on an assumption or guess; used as a provisional or tentative idea to guide or direct investigation. Example: a presenter is discussing statistical probability, instead of explaining probability in terms of equations, it may make more sense for the presenter to make up a hypothetical example. | 38 | |
| 6828112603 | Iambic | A common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable. Example: The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree | 39 | |
| 6828114376 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses. Example: sight, sound, smell, touch, taste | 40 | |
| 6828699394 | Inference | A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. Example: We had to put up with loud noise and constant interference from the neighbors. | 41 | |
| 6828699395 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality. Example: There are roaches infesting the office of a pest control service. | 42 | |
| 6828701339 | Lists | a series of names or other items written or printed together in a meaningful grouping or sequence so as to constitute a record sequence so as to constitute a record. Example: Eggs, cheese, milk. | 43 | |
| 6828701340 | Lyric | A type of poetry that explores the poet's personal interpretation of and feelings about the world. Example: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, | 44 | |
| 6828703450 | Malapropism | a word humorously misused. Example: "Illiterate him quite from your memory" (obliterate) and "She's as headstrong as an allegory" (alligator) | 45 | |
| 6828703451 | Metaphysical Conceits | Extended metaphor that controls the entire poem. Example: "Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind; For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs; Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, Without a sudden calm, will overset Thy tempest-tossed body." | 46 | |
| 6828707694 | Multiple Modifiers | Descriptive words, such as adjectives and adverbs. Example: Happy, silly, handsome. | 47 | |
| 6828707695 | Narrative Ballad | A form of poetry that tells a story. Example: Light do I see within my Lady's eyes And loving spirits in its plenisphere Which bear in strange delight on my heart's care Till Joy's awakened from that sepulcher. | 48 | |
| 6828710585 | Non Sequitur | something that does not logically follow. Example: The school in which my child goes to school is big. The classroom must be big. | 49 | |
| 6828712090 | Direct object | the object that receives the direct action of the verb. Example: the dog in "Jimmy fed the dog." | 50 | |
| 6828712091 | Ode | A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject.. Example: There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Appareled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;- | 51 | |
| 6828713583 | Octave | 8 line stanza. Example: For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, In the sepulcher there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea. | 52 | |
| 6828713584 | Omniscient | (adj.) knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding. Example: The Scarlet Letter, is an omniscient one, who scrutinizes the characters and narrates the story in a way that shows the readers that he has more knowledge. | 53 | |
| 6828728759 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. Example: Boom, slap, pow | 54 | |
| 6828884745 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. Example: Jumbo shrimp. | 55 | |
| 6828884746 | Parable | A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. Example: Bible exerts. | 56 | |
| 6828885782 | Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. Example: Less is more. | 57 | |
| 6828886900 | Parallel structures | the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. Example: "Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." | 58 | |
| 6828889899 | Parallel syntax | repetition of words, phrases, and clauses used in a concise manner. Example: Ashley likes to ski, to swim and to jump. | 59 | |
| 6828902267 | Pastoral Elegy | a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Example: "I would not be standing here today nor standing where I stand every day had she not chosen to sit down. I know that. I know that. I know that. I know that, and I honor that. Had she not chosen to say we shall not—we shall not be moved." | 60 | |
| 6828902268 | Pentameter | a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet. Example: If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, | 61 | |
| 6828906731 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end. Example: In spite of heavy snow and cold temperatures, the game continued. | 62 | |
| 6829016892 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. Example: Lightning danced across the sky. | 63 | |
| 6829016893 | Phrases | a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause. Example: The lost puppy was a wet and stinky dog. | 64 | |
| 6829018756 | Poetic drama | a narrative involving conflict. Example: "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore— Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." | 65 | |
| 6829018757 | Point of view | The perspective from which a story is told. Example: "I felt like I was getting drowned with shame and disgrace." | 66 | |
| 6829020197 | Puns | A play on words. Example: Santa's helpers are known as subordinate Clauses. | 67 | |
| 6829020198 | Qualifier | a word or phrase that clarifies, modifies, or limits the meaning of another word or phrase. Example: Very good | 68 | |
| 6829023588 | Reflective Narrative | A type of personal narrative in which writers share insights and observations about life. Example: Diary entries | 69 | |
| 6829093596 | Rhetorical Purpose | the reason for the speaker's remarks; or a definition of the attitude that the author would like the reader to adopt. Example: seeks to persuade an audience, seeks to manipulate the way that audience thinks about the given subject. | 70 | |
| 6829094614 | Rhetorical Shift | this occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his or her diction, syntax, or both. Example: a spokesperson from the CDC is explaining a disease outbreak and giving her assessment of it. She might interrupt her explanation (expository mode) to give a full description of the illness' symptoms and means of treatment. | 71 | |
| 6829094615 | Rhyme royal | 7 lines, poetry, iambic pentameter, fixed rhyme scheme. Example: The concept time is quite beyond my ken. String theory baffles brilliant folks and me. I'll not wax philosophical again. Perhaps I did already, shame on me. We'd be confused in synchronicity. For flies who live for but a single day, young boys and men would seem two breeds at play. We can tell larva and the grown-up fly are one, we see them grow. They must mistake we humans as a species that won't die | 72 | |
| 6829097073 | Rhythm | A regularly recurring sequence of events or actions. Example: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" | 73 | |
| 6829098456 | Self-Parody | The intentional or inadvertent parodying or exaggeration of one's usual behavior or speech. Example: "they are soft-spoken and clean-cut to the point of self-parody" | 74 | |
| 6829101723 | Sestet | 6 line stanza. Example: "And when I feel, fair creature of an hour! That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love! — then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink." | 75 | |
| 6829101724 | Slant rhyme | Words that end in similar but not exact sounds. Example: "Hope" is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all, | 76 | |
| 6829105438 | Soliloquy | A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage. Example: "Yet art thou still but Faustus and a man" | 77 | |
| 6829105439 | Speaker | A person who speaks. Example: The speaker in Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken" is a conflicted person, who does not tell anything about himself. | 78 | |
| 6829108891 | Spondee | a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables. Example: By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam,... All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him, through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest... Burning, singing in the sunshine. | 79 | |
| 6829268330 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem. Example: I love to write Day and night What would my heart do But cry, sigh and be blue If I could not write (Second Stanza) Writing feels good And I know it should Who could have knew That what I do Is write, write, write | 80 | |
| 6829270795 | Stream of conscious narration | A method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters. Example: "... it is nothing joined; it flows. A 'river' or a 'stream' is the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let's call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life." | 81 | |
| 6829270796 | Style | A basic and distinctive mode of expression. Example: The pleasures of the imagination, taken in their full extent, are not so gross as those of sense... A man of polite imagination is let into a great many pleasures... | 82 | |
| 6829273739 | Symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract. Example: Black is used to represent death or evil. | 83 | |
| 6829274965 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa. Example: The word "bread" can be used to represent food in general or money. | 84 | |
| 6829274966 | Tetrameter | Four feet. Example: 'I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; | 85 | |
| 6829278730 | Traditional Ballad stanza | The four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. Example: It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? | 86 | |
| 6829280125 | Third person narration | The story is told from the point of view of an outside narrator. Example: Not using "I" or "We". | 87 | |
| 6829282077 | Trimeter | Three feet. Example: "Is like a pleasant sleep,/ Wherein I rest and heed/ The dreams that by me sweep." | 88 | |
| 6829286224 | Trochee | A metrical foot consisting of one accented syllable followed by one unaccented syllable. Example: words include "garden" and "highway." | 89 | |
| 6829389884 | Understatement | the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. Example: "a master of English understatement" | 90 | |
| 6829389885 | Anger | ire. Example: "the colonel's anger at his daughter's disobedience" | 91 | |
| 6829391581 | Appreciative | Expressing or feeling thankfulness. Example: "the team is very appreciative of your support" | 92 | |
| 6829393054 | Assumed arrogance | The quality of being arrogant. Example: "the arrogance of this man is astounding" | 93 | |
| 6829393055 | Awe | Solemn wonder. Example: A person is filled with admiration at the sight of the Grand Canyon | 94 | |
| 6829395756 | Bitterness tempted by maturity | Having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste. Example: "And you?" she asked, bitterness in her voice. | 95 | |
| 6829395757 | Broadly sympathetic | Feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy. Example: "he was sympathetic toward staff with family problems" | 96 | |
| 6829398793 | Careful objectivity | The state or quality of being objective. Example: The very notion of objectivity and truth therefore disappears. | 97 | |
| 6829398794 | Cheerful glee | Open delight or pleasure. Example: exultant joy; exultation. | 98 | |
| 6829400418 | Conciliatory | -describes an approach that is flexible and yielding; willing to make concessions to restore harmony. Example: a handshake after you have just clearly defeated and angered your opponent. | 99 | |
| 6829719780 | Cynical Exaggeration | A statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is. Example: "it would be an exaggeration to say I had morning sickness, but I did feel queasy" | 100 | |
| 6829719781 | Despondant | Depressed, gloomy. Example: Marilyn was despondent after her husband of fifty years died. | 101 | |
| 6829722136 | Didactic | Instructive. Example: Here is a poor burdened sinner. I come from the City of Destruction, but am going to Mount Zion, that I may be delivered from the Wrath to come; I would therefore, Sir, since I am informed that by this Gate is the Way thither, know if you are willing to let me in? | 102 | |
| 6829722137 | Disappointment | dismay. Example: "to her disappointment, there was no chance to talk privately with Luke" | 103 | |
| 6829724157 | Dispassionate | Unbiased, not having a selfish or personal motivation. Example: Calm, lacking emotion | 104 | |
| 6829778138 | Elegant Disdain | to look upon or treat with contempt. Example: despise; scorn. | 105 | |
| 6829787167 | Emotional judgement | The forming of an opinion, estimate, notion, or conclusion, as from circumstances presented to the mind. Example: Don't rush to judgment without examining the evidence. | 106 | |
| 6829809628 | Expansive and self-dramatizing | Exaggerating one's own qualities, role, situation. Example: dramatic effect or as an attention-getting device; presenting oneself dramatically. | 107 | |
| 6829819463 | Fearful | apprehensive. Example: Timorous | 108 | |
| 6829826026 | Feigned Bitterness | Fake anger. Example: Tom's mom was only mad at him to make him a better person. | 109 | |
| 6829827744 | Feigned sympathy | Fake pity or sorrow. Example: Jake didn't really care if his friend's mom died or not. | 110 | |
| 6829832766 | Fond Admiration | A feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval. Example: The look in the eyes of a couple in love. | 111 | |
| 6829843795 | Forced glee | forced open delight or pleasure. Example: exultant joy; exultation. | 112 | |
| 6829845197 | Gentle disapproval | The act or state of disapproving. Example: Andre raised his eyebrow in polite disapproval, the same way his father did. | 113 | |
| 6829845198 | Gentle sarcasm | harsh or bitter derision or irony. Example: "Well, this day was a total waste of makeup." | 114 | |
| 6829855610 | Gratitude made richer by love. | The quality or feeling of being grateful or thankful. Example: He carried on with Bianca like the sister she now was, and Jule couldn't help feeling a sense of gratitude towards the small woman with the quick smile, warm gaze, and healing energy. | 115 | |
| 6829857613 | Grudging respect | Esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability. Example: Something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability. | 116 | |
| 6829859917 | Grudgingly tolerant | displaying or reflecting reluctance or unwillingness. Example: grudging acceptance of the victory of an opponent. | 117 | |
| 6829892450 | Hopeful | full of hope. Example: Expressing hope | 118 | |
| 6829892451 | Intelligent respect | Esteem for or a sense of the worth or excellence of a person, a personal quality or ability. Example: Something considered as a manifestation of a personal quality or ability. | 119 | |
| 6829958311 | Ironic Anger | A strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong. Example: wrath. | 120 | |
| 6829960841 | Ironic grimness | Stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise. | 121 | |
| 6829963516 | Irreversible Respect | The irreversible change of respect one has for someone or something. Example: Loving an idol. | 122 | |
| 6829965286 | Jaded Disgust | To cause loathing or nausea in. Examples: Hillary Clinton | 123 | |
| 6829997203 | Jealousy | a protective reaction to a perceived threat to a valued relationship. Example: Envious of someone. | 124 | |
| 6829999022 | Light and cheerful | Characterized by or expressive of good spirits or cheerfulness. Example: Having a festive outing with family. | 125 | |
| 6830005711 | Mild Amusement | Somewhat finding something funny. Example: Someone telling a dirty joke. | 126 | |
| 6830005712 | Mildly disapproving | Expressing an unfavorable opinion. Example: "he shot a disapproving glance at her" | 127 | |
| 6830026842 | Nostalgic | longing for the past. Example: Finding a piece of your childhood and reminiscing about the past. | 128 | |
| 6830026843 | Objectivity | neutral, fact-based approach. Example: "the piece lacked any objectivity" | 129 | |
| 6830028704 | Open hostility | Animosity. Example: "their hostility to all outsiders" | 130 | |
| 6830045264 | Perplexity strengthened by resentment | Inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable. Example: "she paused in perplexity" | 131 | |
| 6830045265 | Pity | Condolence. Example: "Clare didn't know whether to envy or pity them" | 132 | |
| 6830055646 | Playful seriousness | Full of play in a serious fashion. Example: Humorous, jocular. | 133 | |
| 6830055647 | Regret | Remorse. Example: "I regret not going to college and getting a degree." | 134 | |
| 6830058438 | Reproachful | Expressing disapproval or disappointment. Example: "Excuse my coming to you, cousin," she said in a reproachful and agitated voice. | 135 | |
| 6830086570 | Respect strengthened by distance | A feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements. Example: "the director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor" | 136 | |
| 6830086571 | Respectful awe | Seeing something amazing in respect for it. Example: "they gazed in awe at the small mountain of diamonds" | 137 | |
| 6830088708 | Reverent | Feeling or expressing very deep respect and awe. Example: "Finally I am back on the team" | 138 | |
| 6830110562 | Sarcastic Vindictiveness | Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge. Example: "The criticism was both vindictive and personalized" | 139 | |
| 6830112405 | Sardonic condemnation | The expression of very strong disapproval; censure. Example: "There was strong international condemnation of the attack" | 140 | |
| 6830112406 | Scornful | Contemptuous. Example: "The justices have been scornful of the government's conduct" | 141 | |
| 6830115377 | Servility imparted by discipline | An excessive willingness to serve or please others. Example: "A classic example of media servility" | 142 | |
| 6830115378 | Sharply Critical | Expressing adverse or disapproving comments or judgments. Example: "He was critical of many U.S. welfare programs" | 143 | |
| 6830117745 | Somber melancholy | A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. Example: "An air of melancholy surrounded him" | 144 | |
| 6830117746 | Testy and critical | Easily irritated. Example: Impatient and somewhat bad-tempered. | 145 | |
| 6830120449 | Thoughtless contempt | The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn. Example: "He showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly" | 146 | |
| 6830120450 | Tragic | A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy. Example: "The shooting was a tragic accident" | 147 | |
| 6830120451 | Vaguely amused | Cause (someone) to find something funny; entertain. Example: "He made faces to amuse her" | 148 | |
| 6830122839 | Warm affirmation | The action or process of affirming something or being affirmed. Example: "He nodded in affirmation" | 149 | |
| 6830125458 | Wry disdain | The feeling that someone or something is unworthy of one's consideration or respect; contempt. Example: "Her upper lip curled in disdain" | 150 |
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| 7224514652 | adage | A saying that becomes widely accepted as truth over time. Usually observances of life and behaviour that express a general truth. Ex: "A penny saved is a penny earned." | 0 | |
| 7224514653 | allegory | A story in which the narrative or characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical or possibly ethical meaning. | 1 | |
| 7224514654 | alliteration | The repetition of one or more initial consonant in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. Writers use this for ornament or for emphasis. | 2 | |
| 7224514655 | allusion | A reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea. | 3 | |
| 7224514656 | ambiguity | A vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation. | 4 | |
| 7224514657 | anachronism | A person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time/era in which the work is set. | 5 | |
| 7224514658 | analogy | A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to something else that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar. | 6 | |
| 7224514659 | antagonist | A character or force in a work of literature that, by opposing the protagonist produces tension or conflict. | 7 | |
| 7224514660 | antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. | 8 | |
| 7224514661 | aphorism | A statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner. The term is often applied to philosophical, moral and literary principles. | 9 | |
| 7224514662 | Apollonian | In contrast to Dionysian, it refers to the most noble, godlike qualities of human nature and behaviour. | 10 | |
| 7224514663 | apostrophe | A figure of speech where the writer or speaker detaches himself from his present reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech. | 11 | |
| 7224514664 | archetype | A character, action or situation which represents or reflects a commonly held or universal pattern, such as human nature. | 12 | |
| 7224514665 | assonance | The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines in poetry and prose. | 13 | |
| 7224514666 | ballad | A simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited; a long narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme, typically has a folksy quality | 14 | |
| 7224514667 | bard | A poet or a performer in olden times who told heroic stories to musical accompaniment. | 15 | |
| 7224514668 | Bildungsroman | A special kind of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of its main character from his or her youth to adulthood. Generally, such a novel starts with a loss or a tragedy that disturbs the main character emotionally. He or she leaves on a journey to fill that vacuum. | 16 | |
| 7224514669 | blank verse | Poetry written in iambic pentameter, the primary meter used in English poetry and the works of Shakespeare and Milton; its lines generally do not rhyme. | 17 | |
| 7224514670 | bombast | Inflated, pretentious language used for trivial subjects. | 18 | |
| 7224514671 | cacophony | The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds, primarily those of consonants, to achieve the desired results. Ex: "I detest war because cause of war is always trivial." | 19 | |
| 7224514672 | caesura | It involves creating a fracture within a sentence, where the two separate parts are distinguishable from one another yet intrinsically linked; the purpose is to create a dramatic pause. Ex: "Mozart- oh, how your music makes me soar!" | 20 | |
| 7224514673 | canon | The works most widely read, studied, and considered most important in national literature or in a specific literary period. | 21 | |
| 7224514674 | caricature | A grotesque likeness of striking qualities in persons and things; a portrait that exaggerates a facet of personality. | 22 | |
| 7224514675 | catharsis | A cleansing of the spirit brought about by the pity and terror of a dramatic tragedy. | 23 | |
| 7224514676 | classicism | Deriving from the orderly qualities of ancient Greek and Roman culture; implies formality, objectivity, simplicity and restraint. | 24 | |
| 7224514677 | conceit | A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors; it develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but is, nonetheless, intellectually imaginative. | 25 | |
| 7224514678 | anticlimax | This occurs when an action produces far smaller results than one had been led to expect; it is frequently comic in effect. | 26 | |
| 7224514679 | anti-hero | A protagonist who is markedly un-heroic, morally weak, cowardly, dishonest, or any number of other unsavoury qualities; he is not just good or noble like a conventional hero. | 27 | |
| 7224514680 | aside | A speech (usually just a short comment) made by an actor to the audience, as though momentarily stepping outside of the action on stage. | 28 | |
| 7224514681 | atmosphere | The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene. | 29 | |
| 7224514682 | black humor | The use of disturbing themes in comedy. Ex: two tramps comically debating over which should commit suicide first, and whether the branches of a tree will support their weight. | 30 | |
| 7224514683 | cadence | the beat or rhythm of poetry in a general sense | 31 | |
| 7224514684 | canto | is a divider in long poems, much like chapters in a novel | 32 | |
| 7224514685 | coinage | a.k.a. neologism, inventing a word | 33 | |
| 7224514686 | colloquialism | this is a word or phrase used in everyday conversational English that isn't a part of accepted "schoolbook" English | 34 | |
| 7224514687 | controlling image | when an image dominates and shapes the entire work | 35 | |
| 7224514688 | metaphysical conceit | a type of conceit that occurs only in metaphysical poetry | 36 | |
| 7224514689 | connotation | the suggest or implied meaning of a word/phrase | 37 | |
| 7224514690 | consonance | the repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a group of words or a line of poetry | 38 | |
| 7224514691 | couplet | a pair of lines that end in rhyme | 39 | |
| 7224514692 | heroic couplet | two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter are called this | 40 | |
| 7224514693 | denotation | the literal, dictionary definition of a word | 41 | |
| 7224514694 | denouement | the resolution that occurs at the end of a play or work or fiction | 42 | |
| 7224514695 | Dionysian | as distinguished from Apollonian, the word refers to sensual, pleasure seeking impulses | 43 | |
| 7224514696 | diction | the choice of words in oral and written discourse | 44 | |
| 7224514697 | syntax | the ordering and structuring of the words in a sentence | 45 | |
| 7224514698 | dirge | a song for the dead, its tone is typically slow, heavy, and melancholy | 46 | |
| 7224514699 | dissonance | the grating of incompatible sounds | 47 | |
| 7224514700 | doggerel | crude, simplistic verse, often in sing-song rhyme | 48 | |
| 7224514701 | dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not | 49 | |
| 7224514702 | dramatic monologue | when a single speaker in literature says something to a silent audience | 50 | |
| 7224514703 | elegy | a poem or prose selection that laments or meditates on the passing/death of something/someone of value | 51 | |
| 7224514704 | elements | the basic techniques of each genre of literature. IN SHORT STORY: characters, irony, theme, symbol, plot, setting. IN POETRY: figurative language, symbol, imagery, rhythm, rhyme. IN DRAMA: conflict, characters, climax, conclusion, exposition, rising action, falling action, props. IN NONFICTION: argument, evidence, reason, appeals, fallacies, thesis. | 52 | |
| 7224514705 | ellipsis | three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation | 53 | |
| 7224514706 | empathy | a feeling of association or identification with an object/person | 54 | |
| 7224514707 | end stopped | a term that describes a line of poetry that ends with a natural pause often indicated by a mark of punctuation | 55 | |
| 7224514708 | enjambment | the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pause | 56 | |
| 7224514709 | epic | an extended narrative poem that tells of the adventures and exploits of a hero that is generally larger than life and is often considered a legendary figure | 57 | |
| 7224514710 | mock epic | a parody form that deals with mundane events and ironically treats them as worthy of epic poetry | 58 | |
| 7224514711 | epitaph | lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. usually a line or handful of lines, often serious or religious, but sometimes witty and even irreverent | 59 | |
| 7224514712 | epigram | a concise but ingenious, witty and thoughtful statement | 60 | |
| 7224514713 | euphony | when sounds blend harmoniously; pleasing, harmonious sounds | 61 | |
| 7224514714 | epithet | an adjective or phrase that expresses a striking quality of a person or thing | 62 | |
| 7224514715 | eponymous | a term for the title character of a work of literature | 63 | |
| 7224514716 | euphemism | a mild or less negative usage for a harsh or blunt term | 64 | |
| 7224514717 | explicit | to say or write something directly and clearly | 65 | |
| 7224514718 | explication | the interpretation/analysis of a text | 66 | |
| 7224514719 | extended metaphor | a series of comparisons between two unlike objects that occur over a number of lines | 67 | |
| 7224514720 | fable | a short tale often featuring nonhuman character that act as people whose actions enable the author to make observations or draw useful lessons about human behavior. i.e Orwell's "Animal Farm" | 68 | |
| 7224514721 | falling action | the action in a play or story that occurs after the climax and that leads to the conclusion and often to the resolution of the conflict | 69 | |
| 7224514722 | fantasy | a story containing unreal, imaginary features | 70 | |
| 7224514723 | farce | a comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose | 71 | |
| 7224514724 | figurative language | in contrast to literal language, this implies meanings. It includes devices such as metaphors, similes, and personification, etc. | 72 | |
| 7224514725 | foil | a secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast | 73 | |
| 7224514726 | first person narrative | a narrative told by a character involved in the story, using first-person pronouns such as "I" and "we" | 74 | |
| 7224514727 | flashback | a return to an earlier time in a story or play in order to clarify present actions or circumstances | 75 | |
| 7224514728 | foreshadowing | an event or statement in a narrative that suggests, in miniature, a larger event that comes later | 76 | |
| 7224514729 | foot | the basic rhythmic unit of a line in poetry. it is formed by a combination of two or three syllables, either stressed or unstressed | 77 | |
| 7224514730 | frame | a structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative | 78 | |
| 7224514731 | free verse | a kind of poetry without rhymed lines, rhythm or fixed metrical feet | 79 | |
| 7224514732 | genre | a term used to describe literary forms, such as novel, play, and essay | 80 | |
| 7224514733 | Gothic novel | a novel in which supernatural horrors and an atmosphere of unknown terror pervades the action. i.e. "Frankenstein" | 81 | |
| 7224514734 | harangue | a forceful sermon, lecture, or tirade | 82 | |
| 7224514735 | hubris | the excessive pride/ambition that leads to the main character's downfall | 83 | |
| 7224514736 | hyperbole | exaggeration/deliberate overstatement | 84 | |
| 7224514737 | humanism | a belief that emphasizes faith and optimism in human potential and creativity | 85 | |
| 7224514738 | implicit | to say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly | 86 | |
| 7224514739 | in medias res | Latin for "in the midst of things"; a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events but at some other critical point | 87 | |
| 7224514740 | idyll | a lyric poem or passage that describes a kind of ideal life or place | 88 | |
| 7224514741 | image | a word or phrase representing that which can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled or felt | 89 | |
| 7224514742 | inversion | switching customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase. when done badly it can give a stilted, artificial look-at-me-I'm-poetry feel to the verse. type of syntax | 90 | |
| 7224514743 | irony | a mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm | 91 | |
| 7224514744 | invective | a direct verbal assault; a denunciation. i.e. Candide | 92 | |
| 7224514745 | kenning | a device employed in Anglo-Saxon poetry in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions/qualities, as in "ring-giver" for king and "whale-road" for ocean | 93 | |
| 7224514746 | lament | a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss | 94 | |
| 7224514747 | lampoon | a satire | 95 | |
| 7224514748 | light verse | a variety of poetry meant to entertain or amuse, but sometimes with a satirical thrust | 96 | |
| 7224514749 | loose sentence | a sentence that is complete before its end. follows customary word order of English sentences i.e. subject-verb-object | 97 | |
| 7224514750 | periodic sentence | a sentence not grammatically complete until it has reached its final phrase; sentence that departs from the usual word order of English sentences by expressing its main thought only at the end | 98 | |
| 7224514751 | lyric | personal, reflective poetry that reveals the speaker's thoughts and feelings about the subject; the word is used to describe tone, it refers to a sweet, emotional melodiousness | 99 | |
| 7224514752 | melodrama | a form of overly-dramatic theater in which the hero is very, very good, the villain mean and rotten, and the heroine oh-so-pure. | 100 | |
| 7224514753 | litotes | a form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity | 101 | |
| 7224514754 | maxim | a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth | 102 | |
| 7224514755 | metaphor | a figure of speech that compares unlike objects | 103 | |
| 7224514756 | metaphysical poetry | the work of poets, particularly those of 17th c., that uses elaborate conceits, is highly intellectual, and expresses the complexities of love and life | 104 | |
| 7224514757 | meter | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry | 105 | |
| 7224514758 | metonymy | a figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. e.g. "The White House says..." | 106 | |
| 7224514759 | mode | the general form, pattern, and manner of expression of a work of literature | 107 | |
| 7224514760 | montage | a quick succession of images/impressions used to express an idea | 108 | |
| 7224514761 | mood | the emotional tone in a work of literature | 109 | |
| 7224514762 | nemesis | the protagonist's archenemy or supreme and persistent difficulty | 110 | |
| 7224514763 | objectivity | this treatment of a subject matter is an impersonal/outside view of events | 111 | |
| 7224514764 | subjectivity | this treatment of a subject matter uses the interior/personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses | 112 | |
| 7224514765 | onomatopoeia | words that sound like what they mean | 113 | |
| 7224514766 | moral | a brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature | 114 | |
| 7224514767 | motif | a phrase, idea, event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme in a work of literature. | 115 | |
| 7224514768 | muse | one of the ancient Greek goddesses presiding over the arts. the imaginary source of inspiration for an artist or writer | 116 | |
| 7224514769 | myth | an imaginary story that has become accepted part of the cultural or religious tradition of a group/society. often used to explain natural phenomena. | 117 | |
| 7224514770 | narrative | a form of verse or prose that tells a story | 118 | |
| 7224514771 | naturalism | a term often used as a synonym for "realism"; also a view of experiences that is generally characterized as bleak and pessimistic | 119 | |
| 7224514772 | non sequitur | a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before | 120 | |
| 7224514773 | novel of manners | a novel focusing on and describing the social customs and habits of a particular social group | 121 | |
| 7224514774 | ode | a lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful and exalted feelings toward the subject. | 122 | |
| 7224514775 | omniscient narrator | a narrator with unlimited awareness, understanding, and insight of characters, setting, background, and all other elements of the story | 123 | |
| 7224514776 | oxymoron | a phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. juxtaposition of contradictory element to create a paradoxical effect | 124 | |
| 7224514777 | opposition | one of the most useful concepts in analyzing literature. it means that you have a pair of elements that contrast sharply. | 125 | |
| 7224514778 | ottava rima | an eight-line rhyming stanza of a poem | 126 | |
| 7224514779 | parable | like a fable or an allegory, it's a story that instructs; a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived | 127 | |
| 7224514780 | paradox | a statement that seems self-contradictory yet true | 128 | |
| 7224514781 | parallelism | repeated syntactical similarities used for effect | 129 | |
| 7224514782 | parody | an imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject | 130 | |
| 7224514783 | paraphrase | a version of a text put into simpler, everyday, words | 131 | |
| 7224514784 | pastoral | a work of literature dealing with rural life | 132 | |
| 7224514785 | pathetic fallacy | faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects | 133 | |
| 7224514786 | pathos | that element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow | 134 | |
| 7224514787 | pentameter | a verse with five poetic feet per line | 135 | |
| 7224514788 | persona | the role/facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader, viewer, or the world at large; the narrator in a non-first-person novel | 136 | |
| 7224514789 | personification | giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form | 137 | |
| 7224514790 | plot | the interrelationship among the events in a story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution | 138 | |
| 7224514791 | picaresque novel | an episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. e.g. "Don Quixote", "Moll Flanders" | 139 | |
| 7224514792 | plaint | a poem or speech expressing sorrow | 140 | |
| 7224514793 | point of view | the perspective from which the action of a novel in presented. | 141 | |
| 7224514794 | omniscient narrator | 3rd person narrator who sees like God into each character's mind and understands all the action going on. | 142 | |
| 7224514795 | limited omniscient narrator | 3rd person narrator who generally reports only what one character (usually the main) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character. | 143 | |
| 7224514796 | objective narrator | 3rd person narr. who only reports on what would be visible to a camera, doesn't know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks of it. | 144 | |
| 7224514797 | first person narrator | this is a narrator who is a character in the story and tells the tale from his/her POV. when the narrator is crazy, a liar, very young, or for some reason not entirely credible, the narrator is "unreliable" | 145 | |
| 7224514798 | prosody | the grammar of meter and rhythm in poetry | 146 | |
| 7224514799 | protagonist | the main character in a work of literature | 147 | |
| 7224514800 | prelude | an introductory poem to a longer work of verse | 148 | |
| 7224514801 | pun | the usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more meanings | 149 | |
| 7224514802 | pseudonym | also called "pen name", a false name or alias used by writers. i.e Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) George Orwell (Eric Blair) | 150 | |
| 7224514803 | quatrian | a four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem | 151 | |
| 7224514804 | refrain | a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem | 152 | |
| 7224514805 | requiem | a song of prayer for the dead | 153 | |
| 7224514806 | realism | the depiction of people, things, and events as they really are without idealization or exaggeration for effect | 154 | |
| 7224514807 | rhetoric | the language of a work and its style; words, often highly emotional, used to convince or sway an audience | 155 | |
| 7224514808 | rhetorical question | a question that suggests an answer. in theory, the effect is that it causes the listener to feel they have come up with the answer themselves | 156 | |
| 7224514809 | rhapsody | an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise | 157 | |
| 7224514810 | rhyme | the repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry | 158 | |
| 7224514811 | rhyme scheme | the patterns of rhymes within a given poem i.e. abba | 159 | |
| 7224514812 | rhythm | the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry. similar to meter | 160 | |
| 7224514813 | romance | an extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places | 161 | |
| 7224514814 | sarcasm | a sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt | 162 | |
| 7224514815 | satire | a literary style used to poke fun at, attack or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change. great subjects for this include hypocrisy, vanity and greed, especially if those characteristics have become institutionalized in society | 163 | |
| 7224514816 | simile | figurative comparison using the words "like" or "as" | 164 | |
| 7224514817 | setting | the total environment for the action in a novel/play. it includes time, place, historical milieu, and social, political and even spiritual circumstances | 165 | |
| 7224514818 | sentimental | a term that describes characters' excessive emotional response to experience; also nauseatingly nostalgic and mawkish | 166 | |
| 7224514819 | sentiment | a synonym for "view" or "feeling"; also refined and tender emotion in literature | 167 | |
| 7224514820 | scansion | the act of determining the meter of a poetic line. | 168 | |
| 7224514821 | sonnet | a popular form of verse consisting of fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme. two types: Shakespearean and Petrarchan | 169 | |
| 7224514822 | soliloquy | a speech spoken by a character alone on stage. meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's THOUGHTS. unlike an aside, it is not meant to imply that the actor acknowledges the audience's presence | 170 | |
| 7224514823 | stanza | a group of lines in verse, roughly analogous in function to the paragraph in prose; a group of two or more lines in poetry combined according to subject matter, rhyme, or some other plan | 171 | |
| 7224514824 | stream of consciousness | a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind, e.g. Ernest Hemingway | 172 | |
| 7224514825 | stock characters | standard or cliched character types: the drunk, the miser, the foolish girl, etc. | 173 | |
| 7224514826 | suggest | to imply, infer indicate. goes along with the concept of implicit | 174 | |
| 7224514827 | style | the manner in which an author uses and arranges words, shapes ideas, forms sentences and creates a structure to convey ideas | 175 | |
| 7224514828 | subplot | a subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main plot | 176 | |
| 7224514829 | subtext | the implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature | 177 | |
| 7224514830 | summary | a simple retelling of what you've just read. what you DON'T want to do in the Open Essay section :) | 178 | |
| 7224514831 | symbolism | a device in literature where an object represents an idea | 179 | |
| 7224514832 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole or the whole signifies the part | 180 | |
| 7224514833 | theme | the main idea or meaning, often an abstract idea upon which a work of literature is built | 181 | |
| 7224514834 | thesis | the main position of an argument. the central contention that will be supported | 182 | |
| 7224514835 | tone | the author's attitude toward the subject being written about. it's the characteristic emotion that pervades a work or part of a work | 183 | |
| 7224514836 | tragic flaw | in a tragedy, this is the weakness of a character in an otherwise good individual that ultimately leads to his demise | 184 | |
| 7224514837 | tragedy | a form of literature in which the hero is destroyed by some character flaw and a set of forces that cause the hero considerable anguish, or even death | 185 | |
| 7224514838 | travesty | a grotesque parody | 186 | |
| 7224514839 | truism | a way-too-obvious truth | 187 | |
| 7224514840 | utopia | an idealized place. imaginary communities in which people are able to live in happiness, prosperity and peace. Sir Thomas More came up with this idea. | 188 | |
| 7224514841 | verbal irony | a discrepancy between the true meaning of a situation and the literal meaning of the written or spoken words | 189 | |
| 7224514842 | verse | a synonym for poetry. also a group of lines in a song or poem; also a single line of poetry | 190 | |
| 7224514843 | verisimilitude | similar to the truth; the quality of realism in a work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is | 191 | |
| 7224514844 | versification | the structural form of a line of verse as revealed by the number of feet it contains. i.e. monometer = 1 foot; tetrameter = 4 feet; pentameter = 5 feet, etc. | 192 | |
| 7224514845 | villanelle | a French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of 19 lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes | 193 | |
| 7224514846 | voice | the real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker. a verb is in the active voice when it expresses an action performed by its subject. a verb is in the passive voice when it expresses an action performed upon its subject or when the subject is the result of the action. Active: The crew raked the leaves. Passive: The leaves were raked by the crew. | 194 | |
| 7224514847 | wit | the quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight by their unexpectedness; the power to comment subtly and pointedly on the foibles of the passing scene | 195 | |
| 7224514848 | zeugma | the use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings. "He close the door and his heart on his lost love." | 196 | |
| 7224514849 | anastrophe | inversion of the natural or usual word order | 197 | |
| 7224514850 | anaphora | repetition of the same words or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses. e.g. "I have a dream..." | 198 | |
| 7224514851 | epistrophe | repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses "When we first came we were very many and you were very few. Now you are many and we are getting very few." | 199 | |
| 7224514852 | epanalepsis | repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause. "Blood hat bought blood, and blows have answer'd blows" | 200 | |
| 7224514853 | anadiplosis | repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. "The crime was common, common be the pain." | 201 | |
| 7224514854 | antimetabole | repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." | 202 | |
| 7224514855 | chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses. "Exalts his enemies, his friends destroys." | 203 | |
| 7224514856 | polyptoton | repetition of words derived from the same root. "But in this desert country they may see the land being rendered USELESS by OVERUSE." | 204 | |
| 7224514857 | antanaclasis | repetition of a word in two different senses. "Your argument is sound, nothing but sound." | 205 | |
| 7224514858 | paronomasia | use of words alike in sound but different in meaning. "ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a GRAVE man." | 206 | |
| 7224514859 | syllepsis | the use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies/governs. "The ink, like our pig, keeps running out of the pen." | 207 | |
| 7224514860 | anthimeria | the substitution of one part of speech for another "I'll UNHAIR they head." | 208 | |
| 7224514861 | periphrasis | substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name. "They do not escape JIM CROW; they merely encounter another, not less deadly variety." | 209 | |
| 7224514862 | autobiography | an account of a person's own life | 210 | |
| 7224514863 | dialect | a way of speaking that is characteristic of a particular region/group of people | 211 | |
| 7224514864 | epiphany | in a literary work, a moment of sudden insight/revelation that a character experiences | 212 | |
| 7224514865 | essay | a short piece of non-fiction prose that examines a single subject from a limited POV | 213 | |
| 7224514866 | suspense | the uncertainty/anxiety we feel about what is going to happen next in a story | 214 |
AP Literature: Poetry Terms Flashcards
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| 8468278191 | alliteration | repetition of similar consonant sounds | 0 | |
| 8468278192 | allusion | a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event person or work | 1 | |
| 8468278193 | apostrophe | an address to either an absent person, some abstract quality, or nonexistent personage | 2 | |
| 8468278194 | assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds | 3 | |
| 8468278195 | ballad | a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 4 | |
| 8468278197 | cacophony | a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones | 5 | |
| 8468278198 | conceit | an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy or extended metaphor and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. | 6 | |
| 8468278199 | Metaphysical Conceit | *a figure of speech that employs unusual and paradoxical images in comparison *used in 17th century *an intricate and intellectual device *usually sets up an analogy between one entity's spiritual qualities and an object in the physical world and sometimes controls the whole structure of the poem. For example, in the following stanzas from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," John Donne compares two lovers' souls to a draftsman's compass: If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. | 7 | |
| 8468278200 | The Petrarchan conceit | * especially popular with Renaissance writers of sonnets * hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object—e.g., a tomb, the ocean, the sun. Edmund Spenser's Epithalamion, for instance, characterizes the beloved's eyes as being "like sapphires shining bright," with her cheeks "like apples which the sun hath rudded" and her lips "like cherries charming men to bite." | 8 | |
| 8468278202 | heroic couplet | Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse. |  | 9 |
| 8468278205 | didactic poem | a poem which is intended to teach a lesson | 10 | |
| 8468278207 | elegy | a formal poem that mourns the loss of someone, a lament for the dead | 11 | |
| 8468278208 | enjambment | the continuation from one line to the next with no pause | 12 | |
| 8468278210 | extended metaphor | an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem | 13 | |
| 8468278211 | eye rhyme/slant rhyme | rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slant rhyme from pronunciation | 14 | |
| 8468278213 | hyperbole | exaggeration | 15 | |
| 8468278214 | iambic pentameter | five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables. | 16 | |
| 8468278216 | internal rhyme | rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end | 17 | |
| 8468278217 | lyric poem | a short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings, usually identified by its musical/lyrical quality | 18 | |
| 8468278219 | narrative poem | a poem which tells a story or presents a narrative (epics and ballads are examples) | 19 | |
| 8468278220 | octave | an eight line stanza | 20 | |
| 8468278221 | ode | a lyric poem written in the form of an address to someone or something, often elevated in style | 21 | |
| 8468278222 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound suggests their meaning | 22 | |
| 8468278223 | oxymoron | a form of paradox that combines a pair of contrary terms into a single expression | 23 | |
| 8468278224 | paradox | a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense | 24 | |
| 8468278226 | quatrain | four line stanza | 25 | |
| 8468278227 | refrain | a group of words forming a phrase or sentence and consisting of one or more lines repeated at intervals in a poem, usually at the end of a stanza | 26 | |
| 8468278231 | sestet | a six line stanza | 27 | |
| 8468278233 | sonnet | a fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme | 28 | |
| 8468278238 | tercet | a stanza of three lines in which each lines ends with the same rhyme | 29 | |
| 8468278239 | terza rima | a three line stanza rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc | 30 | |
| 8468278242 | understatement | a kind of irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is | 31 | |
| 8469009030 | Consonance | refers to repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession, such as in "pitter, patter." | 32 | |
| 8469013160 | Synecdoche | part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. | 33 | |
| 8469019048 | Synesthesia | a technique adopted by writers to present ideas, characters or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one senses like hearing, seeing, smell etc. at a given time. | 34 | |
| 8469022695 | Anaphora | the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect | 35 | |
| 8469027860 | Pastoral | shepherds and the simplicity of life in the country, where life is free from the corruption of the city | 36 |
AP Spanish Literature Stories and Themes Flashcards
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| 5037163018 | El conde Lucanor, Ejemplo XXXV (1335) | la construcción del género, las relaciones interpersonales, la creación literaria, las sociedades en contacto, la dualidad del ser | 0 | |
| 5037163019 | Romance del rey moro que perdió Alhama (después de 1480) | las sociedades en contacto, el tiempo y el espacio, las relaciones interpersonales | 1 | |
| 5037163020 | Voces indígenas (después de 1502) | las sociedades en contacto, el tiempo y el espacio, la dualidad del ser | 2 | |
| 5037163021 | Segunda carta de relación (1520) | las sociedades en contacto, la dualidad del ser, las relaciones interpersonales | 3 | |
| 5037163022 | Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) | las sociedades en contacto, las relaciones interpersonales, la dualidad del ser | 4 | |
| 5037163023 | Soneto XXIII (1543) | la construcción del género, el tiempo y el espacio | 5 | |
| 5037163024 | El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha (primera parte: 1605, segunda parte: 1615) | la dualidad del ser, el tiempo y el espacio, la creación literaria | 6 | |
| 5037163025 | Soneto CLXVI (1612) | la construcción del género, el tiempo y el espacio, las relaciones interpersonales | 7 | |
| 5037163026 | Salmo XVII | las sociedades en contacto, el tiempo y el espacio, siglo XVI y XVII, edad de oro | 8 | |
| 5037163027 | El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (1630) | la construcción del género, las relaciones interpersonales, la dualidad del ser, el tiempo y el espacio, las sociedades en contacto | 9 | |
| 5037163028 | Hombres necios que acusáis (después de 1690) | la construcción del género, las relaciones interpersonales, la dualidad del ser | 10 | |
| 5037163029 | En una tempestad (después de 1820) | el tiempo y el espacio, la dualidad del ser | 11 | |
| 5037163030 | Rima LIII (1871) | las relaciones interpersonales, el tiempo y el espacio | 12 | |
| 5037163031 | Nuestra América (1891) | las sociedades en contacto, la relaciones interpersonales | 13 | |
| 5037163032 | He andado muchos caminos (1903) | las sociedades en contacto, el tiempo y el espacio, las relaciones interpersonales, la dualidad del ser | 14 | |
| 5037163033 | A Roosevelt (1905) | las sociedades en contacto, las relaciones interpersonales, la dualidad del ser, la creación literaria | 15 | |
| 5037163034 | Peso ancestral (1919) | la construcción del género, las relaciones interpersonales | 16 | |
| 5037163035 | Las medias rojas (1923) | la construcción del género, las relaciones interpersonales, las sociedades en contacto, el tiempo y el espacio | 17 | |
| 5037163036 | El hijo (1928) | la dualidad del ser, las relaciones interpersonales, el tiempo y el espacio | 18 | |
| 5037163037 | Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla; Muerte de Antoñito el Camborio (1928) | la construcción del género, las sociedades en contacto, las relaciones interpersonales | 19 | |
| 5037163038 | San Manuel Bueno, mártir (1933) | la dualidad del ser, el espacio y el tiempo, las relaciones interpersonales, la creación literaria | 20 | |
| 5037163039 | Balada de los dos abuelos (1934) | la dualidad del ser, las relaciones interpersonales, las sociedades en contacto | 21 | |
| 5037163040 | Walking around (1935) | la dualidad del ser, las sociedades interperonales, las relaciones interpersonales | 22 | |
| 5037163041 | La casa de Bernarda Alba (1936) | las relaciones interpersonales, la construcción del género, el tiempo y el espacio | 23 | |
| 5037163042 | A Julia de Burgos (1938) | la dualidad del ser | 24 | |
| 5037163043 | No oyes ladrar los perros (1953) | las relaciones interpersonales | 25 | |
| 5037163044 | Chac Mool (1954) | la dualidad del ser, las sociedades en contacto, el tiempo y el espacio, la creación literaria | 26 | |
| 5037163045 | El Sur (1956) | la dualidad del ser, el tiempo y el espacio | 27 | |
| 5037163046 | La noche boca arriba (1956) | la dualidad del ser, el tiempo y el espacio | 28 | |
| 5037163047 | Historia del hombre que se convirtió en perro (1957) | las sociedades en contacto, las relaciones interpersonales | 29 | |
| 5037163048 | Borges y yo (1960) | la dualidad del ser | 30 | |
| 5037163049 | La siesta del martes (1962) | las sociedades en contacto, las relaciones interpersonales, la dualidad del ser | 31 | |
| 5037163050 | Mi caballo mago (1964) | las relaciones interpersonales, el tiempo y el espacio, la dualidad del ser | 32 | |
| 5037163051 | El ahogado más hermoso del mundo (1968) | las sociedades en contacto, las relaciones interpersonales, el tiempo y el espacio | 33 | |
| 5037163052 | ...y no se lo tragó la tierra (1971) | las sociedades en contacto, las relaciones interpersonales | 34 | |
| 5037163053 | Mujer negra (1975) | la construcción del género, las sociedades en contacto, las relaciones interpersonales, la dualidad del ser | 35 | |
| 5037163054 | Dos palabras (1989) | la construcción del género, las relaciones interpersonales | 36 | |
| 5037163055 | Como la vida misma (2011) | la dualidad del ser, las relaciones interpersonales, el tiempo y el espacio | 37 |
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AP Spanish Language: Casi casi Flashcards
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| 6433633180 | a propósito | on purpose | 0 | |
| 6433634994 | la amistad | friendship | 1 | |
| 6433634995 | la asignatura | la materia | 2 | |
| 6433637406 | caerle bien | llevarse bien | 3 | |
| 6433641021 | la campaña | campaign | 4 | |
| 6433641022 | la cartulina | poster | 5 | |
| 6433643825 | chévere | cool, awesome | 6 | |
| 6433643826 | el colegio | la escuela | 7 | |
| 6433646821 | el compañero de escuela | schoolmate | 8 | |
| 6433646822 | la computación | la informática | 9 | |
| 6433651269 | contar con | to count on | 10 | |
| 6433654176 | tirarse por presidente | to run for president | 11 | |
| 6433656579 | dar el máximo | to give your all; to do your best | 12 | |
| 6433660707 | el director | principal | 13 | |
| 6433662437 | el discurso | speech | 14 | |
| 6433662438 | discutir | to discuss; to argue | 15 | |
| 6433664661 | enamorarse de | to fall in love | 16 | |
| 6433664662 | estar bueno | to be a hottie | 17 | |
| 6433666328 | el estudiantado | student body | 18 | |
| 6433667993 | ganar | to win; to earn | 19 | |
| 6433667994 | hacer trampa | to cheat | 20 | |
| 6433669784 | el noviazgo | boy-friend/girl-friend relationship | 21 | |
| 6433672103 | perder | to lose; to miss | 22 | |
| 6433672104 | la popularidad | popularity | 23 | |
| 6433673613 | la prepa | slang term for high school | 24 | |
| 6433676795 | el presidente | president | 25 | |
| 6433676796 | sacrificarse por | to sacrifice oneself for | 26 | |
| 6433679258 | el secretario | secretary | 27 | |
| 6433681221 | el tesorero | treasurer | 28 | |
| 6433681223 | la universidad | college; university | 29 | |
| 6433683374 | el vice | vice president | 30 | |
| 6433683375 | votar | to vote | 31 |
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