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AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

8145934143	1. (TOD) Epistle	a specially long formal letter	0
8145941147	1. (WOD) Wheedle	(v) to influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing or flattering; sweet talk	1
8145947510	2. (TOD) Authorial Voice	your tone, choice of content/words	2
8145950854	2. (WOD) Nondescript	(adj) lacking distinct or individual characteristics, dull or uninteresting	3
8145955966	3. (TOD) Diction	the choice of words and phrases in speech or wiriting	4
8145960351	4. (TOD) Remix	to reassemble or revive a form of art	5
8145963710	3. (WOD) Condone	(v) to accept or allow behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive to continue	6
8145968257	5. (TOD) Challenge	when a person or group of people have attempted to have a book removed from a school or library	7
8145972533	6. (TOD) Ban	free access is not permitted	8
8145975682	7. (TOD) Censor	reviewing a book for inappropriate things	9
8145983444	4. (WOD) Bowlderize	(v) to edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate	10
8145989077	5. (WOD) Sacrilege	(n) blasphemous behavior, the act of depriving something of its sacred character	11
8145995623	6. (WOD) Revile	(v) to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak abusively (in print)	12
8146003515	7. (WOD) Proliferate	(v) to grow rapidly	13
8146007396	8. (TOD) Etymology	the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history	14
8146011580	9. (TOD) Prefix	an affix placed before a word	15
8146016960	10. (TOD) Root	the origin	16
8146020284	11. (TOD) Suffix	an affix placed at the end of a word	17
8146026076	8. (WOD) Subvert	(v) to undermine the power or authority of an established institution	18
8146030253	12. (TOD) Word Tree	a group of similar words that share a common root to prefixes and suffixes	19
8146034897	9. (WOD) Facade	(n) the front of a building, a superficial personality or appearance	20
8146039752	10. (WOD) Disconsolate	(adj) without solace, unhappy, gloomy	21
8146041956	11. (WOD) Quagmire	(n) an area of foggy ground- a bog, a situation that is difficult to escape	22
8146049988	12. (WOD) Ingratiate	(v) to bestow through control or manipulation	23
8146054313	13. (WOD) Lugubrious	(adj) mournful in an exaggerated manner	24
8146061963	14. (WOD) Festoon	(n) a chain or garland of flowers or other decorations	25
8146064993	15. (WOD) Transgression	(n) an act of transgressing or violating the law	26
8146073690	13. (TOD) Neologism	a word or phrase which is new to the language; one which is newly coined	27
8146078660	16. (WOD) Amalgamate	(v) to mix a combination, to combine	28
8146081651	17. (WOD) Ineffable	(adj) defying expression or description	29
8146088416	14. (TOD) Modernism	major artists questioned and reunited their art forms, desire to break from past, rejecting literary traditions seemed gentle, break through and global violence	30
8145857771	15. (TOD) Stream of Consciousness	style that some modern writers use to portray workings of a characters mind, catalog, describe thoughts, impressions, ideas or explanations, present what is going on in a mind	31
8145857772	16. (TOD) Alienation	seperation resulting from hostility	32
8145857773	17. (TOD) Existentialism	a school of thought that claims people are responsible for creating meaning out of life, since world is meaningless	33
8145857774	18. (TOD) Nihilism	complete rejection of moral values and religious beliefs	34
8145857775	19. (TOD) Primitivism	genre characteristic of (or imitator or primitive artists or children) untamed	35
8145857776	20. (TOD) Typography	art of putting words into print, process involving choosing letters, arranging the, printing them	36
8145857777	21. (TOD) Imagism	movement in 20th century English, American poetry that sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images	37
8145857778	18. (WOD) Juxtapose	(v) to place side by side, usually for comparison purposes	38
8145857779	22. (TOD) Automatism	writing technique based upon the psychological theories of Freud, avoidance of conscious	39
8146110456	19. (WOD) Sardonic	(adj) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking	40
8145857780	23. (TOD) Anaphora	repetition of word or phrase at beginning of successive clauses	41
8145857781	24. (TOD) Tone	attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work's central theme or subject	42
8146118313	20. (WOD) Evince	(v) to show or express clearly	43
8145857782	25. (TOD) Commentary	an expression of opinions or offering or explanations about an event or situation, descriptive account of are event or performance as it happens, explanatory or critical notes, explanation, interpretation	44
8146127695	26. (TOD) Parallel Structure	the repetition of chosen grammar	45
8146129795	21. (WOD) Apocryphal	(adj) doubtful authorship although widely circulated as true	46
8146136541	22. (WOD) Diffident	(adj) modest or shy due to lack or confidence	47
8146142364	27. (TOD) Metaphor	a figure of speech in which words or phrases are applied to an object or action to which is not literally applied	48
8146143559	23. (WOD) Pagoda	(n) a buddhist temple in East Asia	49
8146150761	28. (TOD) Direct Discourse	the reporting of speech by repeating the actual words of a speaker; quotations	50
8146153973	29. (TOD) Dialect	a particular form of language which is peculiar to specific regions or social groups	51
8146157568	24. (WOD) Truculently	(adj) aggressively self-assertive, harsh	52
8146161079	25. (WOD) Litany	(n) a repetitive chant, a liturgical form or prayer consisting of a series of responses	53
8146175003	30. (TOD) Epiphany	a moment of realization	54
8146179249	26. (WOD) Obstinate	(adj) stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action	55
8146185238	31. (TOD) Irony	a full significance is known to the reader but not to the character	56
8146189861	27. (WOD) Mirth	(n) amusement expressed in laughter	57
8146194398	32. (TOD) Hemingway Code for a Hero	accept no guidelines, don't make trouble for others, face reality, impose meaning on meaningless universe, contain despair by sheer will power, don't judge others, man most establish own values by facing life courageously and honestly, courage	58
8146197693	28. (WOD) Gauntlet	(n) a series of difficult experiences	59
8146201669	33. (TOD) Colloquialism	words used in familiar conversation; slang	60
8146203561	29. (WOD) Broach	(v) to make known for the first time; to introduce a new topic	61
8146208838	34. (TOD) Free Indirect Discourse	combines person and tense with indication of time and place; an attempt to capture the impressions that do not receive direct formulation as thoughts, allowing the author to jump btwn. characters	62
8146221259	30. (WOD) Odious	(adj) deserving or causing hatred, highly offensive or disquieting	63
8146226636	35. (TOD) Post-Modernism	represents departure for modernism and distrust of grand theories and ideologic, problematical relationship with any notion of art	64
8146265867	36. (TOD) Romantic Irony	instant deflation within a line, sardonic tone	65
8146271479	31. (WOD) Esoteric	(adj) understood by a chosen few	66
8146280729	32. (WOD) Gesticulate	(v) to make gestures especially in an animated manner with or instead of speech	67
8146288422	37. (TOD) Pathetic Fallacy	attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals especially in art and literature, usually weather, mirror the plot or character, set the mood of the piece	68
8146291431	38. (TOD) Allusion	a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, or thing	69
8146295602	39. (TOD) Paradox	situation, person or thing that contains contradictory features or qualities, contradiction	70
8146302549	33. (WOD) Metamorphosis	(n) a change of a thing or person into a completely different one by natural or supernatural forces	71
8146311808	40. (TOD) Iceberg Theory	The Iceberg Theory (sometimes known as the "theory of omission") is a style of writing (turned colloquialism) coined by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway believed the deeper meaning of a story should not be evident on the surface, but should shine through implicitly.	72
8146316966	41. (TOD) Ad Hominem	a response to a person's argument by attacking the person's character rather than the logic or content of the argument.	73
8146326435	42. (TOD) Nonsequitur	The Latin words non sequitur literally mean 'it does not follow," and it is a conversational and literary device, often used for comedic purposes	74
8146330966	43. (TOD) Allegory	a story in which everything stands for something else; usually conveys a moral or message. An allegory employs symbolism in the telling of a complete narrative that has an abstract meaning.	75
8146339037	44. (TOD) Symbolism	the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense	76
8146341857	45. (TOD) Trope	figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; puns, metaphors, similies	77
8602151326	46. (TOD) Surrealism	sought to overthrow the oppressive rules of modernist society by demolishing rational thought	78
8146348502	47. (TOD) Eponym	a word derived from the name of an actual or fictional person	79
8146351617	48. (TOD) Novella	a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story	80
8146357049	49. (TOD) Ungezeifer	german for an unclean animal not suited for sacrifice	81
8146368143	34. (WOD) Kafkaesque	(n) of or relating to Franz Kafka, having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre or illogical quality	82
8146373491	35. (WOD) Disquietude	(n) feeling of anxiety that makes you tense and irritable	83
8146382785	36. (WOD) Betoken	(v)to be a sign of; to indicate	84
8146387340	37. (WOD) Pulchritude	(n) physical beauty, especially in a woman	85
8146392357	38. (WOD) Martyr	(n) someone who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion; one who suffers for the sake of principle	86
8146403000	39. (WOD) Garrulous	(adj) 1. excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters. 2. Wordy or diffuse	87
8146414000	40. (WOD) Duress	(n) compulsory force or threat; coercion; constraint (one is under duress)	88
8146425773	41. (WOD) Emaciated	(adj) sickly thin; malnourished	89
8161595799	42. (WOD) Gratitude	(n) thankful and gracious	90
8161595800	43. (WOD) Irreverent	(adj) showing a lack of respect for something	91
8578066996	44. (WOD) Nuanced	(n) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude	92
8578072816	45. (WOD) Misogyny	(n) the hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women	93
8578108923	46. (WOD) Concomitant	(adj) following or accompanying as a consequence; going along with	94
8578137378	50. (TOD) Feminist Literary Theory	the ways in which literature reinforces the oppression of women, highlighting the issue	95
8578149931	51. (TOD) Deconstruction Critical Theory	challenges our comfortable assumptions	96
8578166372	52. (TOD) Psychoanalytic Critical Theory	read psychoanalytically to see which concepts are operating in the text	97
8578195880	53. (TOD) Marxist Critical Theory	concerns itself with class differences, economic, and otherwise, and the implications of a capitalist system	98
8578216965	54. (TOD) Historical Critical Theory	reconnect the work to the time period and the events that occurred	99
8578230135	55. (TOD) Biographical Critical Theory	the author's past life can aid the analysis of the novel/novella	100
8578238489	47. (WOD) Binary	(adj/n) something that can be broken down into two categories; dual or double	101
8578243141	48. (WOD) Multivalency	(n) the quality of having many values, appeals, or meanings	102
8578257171	49. (WOD) Eschew	(v) to avoid or stay away from deliberately; stay clear of	103
8578265787	50. (WOD) Recalcitrance	(n) the trait of being unmanageable; the habit or characteristics of being stubborn or difficult	104
8578280663	51. (WOD) Sycophantic	(adj) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery	105
8578288655	52. (WOD) Subaltern	(n/adj) someone with a low ranking in a social, political, or other hierarchy	106
8578309163	53. (WOD) Jocundity	(n) a feeling of facetious merriment	107
8578318076	54. (WOD) Fecundity	(n) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring	108
8578325709	56. (TOD) Epigraph	an engraved inscription on a building or statue; a quotation at the beginning of a piece of writing	109
8578351841	55. (WOD) Microcosm	(n) a miniature model of something	110
8578356634	56. (WOD) Macrocosm	(n) everything that exists anywhere, the big picture vs. the little picture	111
8578363397	57. (TOD) Subjectivism	the first principle of Existentialism according to Sarte, an individual chooses himself, it is impossible for men to transcend human subjectivity	112
8578377602	58. (TOD) The Existential Process	Anxiety-looking at concepts as responsible over which you have no control, Moment-recognizing your anxiety exists, Resolution-finding a solution	113
8578397962	57. (WOD) Circumspect	(adj) heedful of potential consequences	114
8578403714	59. (TOD) Quietism	inaction- a form of ignoring despair (not making things better)	115
8578411576	58. (WOD) Aquiesce	(v) to agree to something or give in	116
8578416738	59. (WOD) Avarice	(n) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth; greed	117
8578427191	60. (TOD) The Absurd	often applied to the modern sense of human purposelessness on a universe without meaning or value. Many 20th century writers of prose fiction have stressed the absurd nation of existence.	118
8578443347	60. (WOD) Sublime	(adj) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature of style	119
8578450151	61. (WOD) Vilify	(v) to spread negative information about someone or something	120

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AP Literature Vocabulary #8 Roots Flashcards

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7768497120	-ia, -y amnesia: loss memory as a result of shock	act, state	0
7768502899	-ic, -tic, -ical, ac dramatic: bold, vivid, or strikingly impressive in appearance, color, or effect	having to do with	1
7768505215	-il / -im / -in / -ir illegitimate: not carried out or constituted in accordance	not	2
7768505216	-im / -in incorporate: to combine something with, or include it within	into	3
7768509116	inter intervene: to involve yourself deliberately in a conflict	between	4
7768510269	intra intramural: occurring within members of a school	within	5
7768512049	-ism socialism: political system in which production and distribution are controlled by the people	the belief in	6
7768513467	iso isolate: to separate somebody or something from others of the same type	equal, identical	7
7768516023	-ist pacifist: a believer in or advocate of peace	one who believes in	8
7768517996	-ite cosmopolite: composed of or containing people from different countries and cultures	one connected with	9

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100 Words To Know: Enhancing Vocabulary for AP Language and Composition Test Flashcards

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8503904809	acuity (n)	sharpness, keeness	0
8503904810	adept (adj)	(adj) having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude	1
8503904811	admonish (v); admonition (n)	warn, scold, caution	2
8503904812	ambiguous (adj)	unclear meaning, two possible interpretations	3
8503904813	ambivalent (adj)	having opposing attitudes or feelings toward a person, thing, or idea; unable to decide	4
8503904814	apocalyptic (adj)	involving or portending widespread devastation or ultimate doom	5
8503904815	apocryphal (adj)	of questionable authenticity	6
8503904816	aesthetic or esthetic (adj)	concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste	7
8503904817	appellation (n)	a name, title, or designation	8
8503904818	archetype (n); archetypal (adj)	an original model, pattern, or type (after an original model)	9
8503904819	ascertain (v)	to determine; to find out	10
8503904820	assiduous (adj)	diligent, persistent	11
8503904821	base (adj)	inferior, dishonorable	12
8503904822	bastion (n)	a well fortified position	13
8503904823	berate (v)	to rebuke, reprimand, or scold	14
8503904824	bourgeoisie (n); bourgeois (adj)	the middle class; ascribing to the middle class behavior	15
8503904825	calumny (n)	slander; a false statement maliciously made to injure another person's reputation	16
8503904826	cant (n)	tedious talk; monotonous talk filled with platitudes	17
8503904827	censure (v)	to reprimand; to excommunicate (expel as from the priesthood)	18
8503904828	coarse (adj)	lacking refinement or rough grained in texture	19
8503904829	confute (v)	to prove to be wrong or in error	20
8503904830	connoisseur (n)	a person with expert knowledge or training, especially in the fine arts.	21
8503904831	corporeal (adj)	having physical substance, material form	22
8503904832	decry (v)	express strong disapproval of	23
8503904833	defer (v); deference (n)	submit or yield to another person's wish or opinion	24
8503904834	dilatory (adj)	inclined to waste time or lag behind	25
8503904835	disparage (v)	to criticize someone or something in a way that shows you do not respect or value them	26
8503904836	draught (n)	a current of unpleasantly cold air (archaic for draft); or a pint of liquid	27
8503904837	dray (n)	a large low carriage with four wheels pulled by horses	28
8503904838	dyspeptic (adj)	always angry or easily annoyed or having indigestion	29
8503904839	elicit (v)	to call forth, draw out, or provoke; to bring or draw out	30
8503904840	emit (v)	to send out a beam, noise, smell or gas	31
8503904841	espionage (n)	spying; the discovering of secrets, especially political or military information of another country	32
8503904842	facile (adj)	easy, effortless	33
8503904843	feign (v)	to pretend, to dissemble, to misrepresent	34
8503904844	fester (v)	to become infected; an infection (can be a noun and a verb)	35
8503904845	festoon(ed)(v)	draped, decorated as for a parade or state event	36
8503904846	fledgeling (adj)	new and inexperienced	37
8503904847	gainsay (v)	challenge, dispute	38
8503904848	genuflect (v), genuflections (n)	to bow as before a priest or altar (obeisances, reverent gestures)	39
8503904849	grandeur (n)	magnificent, splendid, vast beauty	40
8503904850	grudging (adj), grudgingly (adv)	done in an unwilling way	41
8503904851	hack (n)	a reporter, artist or writer whose work is not very good	42
8503904852	husband(ed) (v)	to use something carefully so that you do not use all of it	43
8503904853	illicit (adj)	contrary to accepted morality (esp. sexual morality) or convention	44
8503904854	illusory (adj)	not real, based on illusion	45
8503904855	imbibe (v)	to drink, especially alcohol	46
8503904856	inexorable (adj)	without end, interminable	47
8503904857	introspection (n)	examination of and attention to your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings	48
8503904858	kowtow (v)	to show too much respect to someone in authority, always obeying them and changing what you do to please them	49
8503904859	languid (adj), languished (v), languor (n)	without energy; pleasant mental of physical tiredness or lack of activity	50
8503904860	latent (adj)	potentially existing but not presently evident or realized	51
8503904861	magnanimity (n)	great generosity of spirit or money	52
8503904862	malevolent (adj), malevolence (n)	ill will, maliciousness	53
8503904863	misnomer (n)	a misapplied or inappropriate name or designation	54
8503904864	non sequitur (n)	A statement that does not follow logically from evidence	55
8503904865	orthodoxy (n)	a belief or orientation agreeing with conventional standards	56
8503904866	paradox (n)	a statement that seems contradictory but contains a truth or valid deduction	57
8503904867	parochial (adj)	provincial; country-like, or of a parish	58
8503904868	pastoral (adj)	showing country life or the countryside, especially in a romantic way	59
8503904869	pathos (n)	poignancy; quality of emotion in a work of art or literature	60
8503904870	pecuniary (adj)	relating to money	61
8503904871	prattle (v)	idle talk, to go on and on meaninglessly	62
8503904872	pernicious (adj)	deadly, harmful, pestilent	63
8503904873	pious (adj); piety (n)	godly, reverent, holy	64
8503904874	plait (v); plaits (n)	to braid; braids	65
8503904875	precipitate (v); precipitous (adj)	to cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely; done hastily without thought	66
8503904876	precocious (adj)	characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity, especially mental development	67
8503904877	prerogative (n)	privilege	68
8503904878	profligate (adj)	wasteful, extravagant, prodigal	69
8503904879	prostrate (adj. or v)	to lie face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration	70
8503904880	prudent (adj)	careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment	71
8503904881	qualm(s) (n)	an uncomfortable feeling of doubt about whether you are doing the right thing	72
8503904882	recitation (n)	an event where one recites a literary work orally for an audience	73
8503904883	reiterate (v), reiteration (n)	to say or to explain again	74
8503904884	resonant (adj), resonance (n)	strong and deep in tone or strongly reminiscent; evocative	75
8503904885	sated (adj), satiety (n)	satisfied; full	76
8503904886	scant, scanty (adj)	barely sufficient	77
8503904887	schizoid (adj)	of or relating to having a personality disorder marked by extreme shyness, flat affect, discomfort with others, and an inability to form close relationships; a person who is reclusive	78
8503904888	sanguine (adj)	cheerful, confident, optimistic	79
8503904889	self-abasement (n)	to out oneself down, to denigrate oneself	80
8503904890	sodden (adj)	drenched, soaked, sopping; expressionless, stupid, or dull, especially from drink	81
8503904891	tawdry (adj)	cheap, gaudy, trashy, tacky	82
8503904892	throes (n)	condition of agonizing trouble or struggle	83
8503904893	timorous (adj)	fearful; shy; timid	84
8503904894	torrent (n)	an overwhelming number or amount or a violently fast stream of water	85
8503904895	torpor (n)	listlessness; languor, without energy, apathetic	86
8503904896	transcendent (adj); transcendence (n)	beyond ordinary; sublime	87
8503904897	transient (adj); transience (n)	fleeting; not lasting	88
8503904898	tremulous (adj)	quivering as from weakness or fear	89
8503904899	turbid (adj)	churned up; cloudy, muddy, murky	90
8503904900	unabashed (adj)	not embarrassed	91
8503904901	variegated (adj)	having streaks, marks, or patches of a different color or colors; varicolored	92
8503904902	veracity (n)	truthfulness	93
8503904903	veritable (adj)	real or genuine; being without question	94
8503904904	vigilant (adj), vigilance (n)	on guard, cautiously aware, continuous attention	95
8503904905	vigilante (n)	one who takes or advocates the taking of law enforcement into one's own hands	96
8503904906	vociferation (n), vociferous (adj)	cry out loudly or vehemently, especially in protest	97
8503904907	voluble (adj), volubility (n)	taking easily, readily, and at length; fluent	98
8503904908	weft (n)	the horizontal threads interlaced through the warp in a woven fabric	99

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AP language vocabulary test 1 Flashcards

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8654569559	Hiatus	An opening	0
8654569560	hackneyed	trite, overused	1
8654569561	Provincial	A person with a narrow point of view	2
8654569562	simulate	to imitate	3
8654569563	Expostulate	To pretest, to complain	4
8654569564	approbation	official approval or sanction	5
8654569565	Intercede	To intervene,to mediate	6
8654569566	meritorious	worthy	7
8654569567	transcend	to rise above or beyond	8
8654569568	assuage	to quiet, calm	9
8654569569	umbrage	An overshadowing influence or power	10
8654569570	coalition	A merger for a specific reason	11
8654569571	Jaded	Wearied or worn out	12
8654569572	innuendo	A hint,indirect suggestion	13
8654569573	Unctuous	Trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety	14
8654569574	decadence	excessive self-indulgence	15
8654569575	elicit	to call forth,to evoke	16
8654569576	prerogative	a special right or privilege	17
8654569577	petulant	peevish, easily irritated	18
8654569578	lurid	Gory,grisly	19

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AP Literature Words Flashcards

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7627761768	Accent	a distinctive mode of pronunciation of a language, especially one associated with a particular nation, locality, or social class.	0
7627761769	Adynaton	a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility: I will sooner have a beard grow in the palm of my hand than he shall get one on his cheek.	1
7632709781	Aesthetic Distance	the gap between a viewer's conscious reality and the fictional reality presented in a work of art.	2
7632709782	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	3
7632712479	Alliteration	the repetition of one or more initial consonants in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose	4
7632712480	Allusion	a reference to a person, place, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea	5
7632715102	Amplification	a literary practice wherein the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understandability.	6
7632716942	Anachronism	a person, scene, event, or other element in literature that fails to correspond with the time or era in which the work is set	7
7632716943	Anapest	a metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable.	8
7632719991	Anaphora	the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition, such as do in I like it and so do they.	9
7632723054	Anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.	10
7632723055	Antagonist	a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.	11
7632725097	Anti- Climax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	12
7632728992	Antihero	a protagonist of a drama or narrative who is notably lacking in heroic qualities	13
7632732162	Anthipophora	is a figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question	14
7632733528	Antitheses	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	15
7632734803	Antonym	a word opposite in meaning to another	16
7632742540	Aphorism	a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it	17
7632744364	Apostrophe	A location that addresses a person or personified thing not present	18
7632746897	Archetype	An abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example; an original model or form	19
7632746898	Aside	a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.	20
7632748637	Assonance	The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines in poetry and prose	21
7632750434	Asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	22
7632750435	Atmosphere	the pervading tone or mood of a place, situation, or work of art.	23
7632753133	Aubade	a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning.	24
7632753134	Ballad	A simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited	25
7632756579	Bildungsroman	a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education.	26
7632759130	Binary Opposition	is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning	27
7632760893	Black Comedy	dark comedy is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo	28
7632762475	Blank Verse	Poetry written in iambic pentameter, the primary meter used in English poetry and the works of Shakespeare and Milton	29
8564575378	Byronic Hero	an antihero of the highest order. He (or she) is typically rebellious, arrogant, anti-social or in exile, and darkly, enticingly romantic.	30
8564581721	Cacophony	a situation in which there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds. In literature, however, the term refers to the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds - primarily those of consonants - to achieve desired results.	31
8564588803	Caesura	a not-so-awkward pause that occurs in the middle of a line of verse in poetry.	32
8564588804	Caricature	a device used in descriptive writing and visual arts, in which particular aspects of a subject are exaggerated, to create a silly or comic effect.	33
7632765825	Catastrophe	an event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.	34
7632768286	Catharsis	A cleansing of the spirit brought about by the pity and terror of a dramatic tragedy	35
7632769963	Character	the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual.	36
7632769974	Characterization	the creation or construction of a fictional character.	37
7632772220	Chorus	a part of a song that is repeated after each verse, typically by more than one singer.	38
7632776440	Cliche	a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.	39
7632776441	Climax	The high point, or turning point, of a story or play	40
7632780866	Colloquialism	Slang.	41
7632780867	Comedy	professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.	42
7632783356	Conceit	A witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language	43
7632785314	Confidant	A character in a drama or fiction, such as a trusted friend or servant, who serves as a device for revealing the inner thoughts or intentions of a main character.	44
7632785315	Conflict	a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.	45
7632790006	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	46
7632791498	Consonance	The repetition of two or more consonant sounds in a group of words or a line of poetry	47
7632791499	Couplet	A pair of rhyming lines in a poem	48
7632793387	Dactyl	A dactyl is a foot in poetic meter. In quantitative verse, often used in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable	49
7632795677	Dead Metaphor	is a figure of speech which has lost the original imagery of its meaning due to extensive, repetitive, and popular usage.	50
7632796915	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	51
7632799674	Denouement	The resolution that occurs at the end of a play or work of fiction	52
7632801919	Deus ex Machina	In literature, the use of an artificial device or gimmick to solve a problem	53
7632806100	Dialogue	conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.	54
7632806101	Diction	The choice of words in oral and written discourse	55
7632809909	Didactic	intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.	56
7632811423	Digression	a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing.	57
7632813197	Dilemma	a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones.	58
7632815415	Direct Characterization	direct speech to the character	59
7632816864	Dissonance	lack of harmony among musical notes.	60
7632818938	Double Rhyme	a feminine rhyme involving one stressed and one unstressed syllable in each rhyming line.	61
7632825358	Dramatic Framework	Author and Audience are both "characters" having a dialogue in the drama of real life.	62
7632825359	Dramatization	a play or movie adapted from a novel or depicting a particular incident.	63
7632828472	Dystopic	lternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.	64
7632828473	Echo	a type of verse in which repetition of the end of a line or stanza imitates an echo. The repetition usually constitutes the entire following line and changes the meaning of the part being repeated.	65
7632830180	Elegy	A poem or prose selection that laments or mediates on the passing or death of something or someone of value	66
7632830181	End Rhyme	occurs when last syllables or words in two or more lines rhyme with each other.	67
7632835580	Enjambment	In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them	68
7632835581	Epiphany	the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi	69
7632839655	Epitaph	a phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.	70
7632841268	Epithet	an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned	71
7632843938	Euphemism	A mild or less negative usage for a harsh or blunt term; i.e. "pass away" instead of "die"	72
7632845551	Euphony	the quality of being pleasing to the ear, especially through a harmonious combination of words.	73
7632847894	Exposition	The background and events that lead to the presentation of the main idea or purpose of a work of literature	74
7632847908	Extended Figure	refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem.	75
7632850750	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	76
7632850751	Fantasy	A story containing unreal, imaginary features	77
7632852738	Farce	A comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness, although it may have a serious, scornful purpose.	78
7632854917	Fatal Flaw	is the secret weakness of character that brings about a tragic hero's downfall.	79
7632856798	Feminine Rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables	80
7632858403	Figurative Language	Also called figure of speech. In contrast to literal language, it implies meanings. Includes metaphors, similes, and personification, among others.	81
7632858404	Foil	Character that makes the protagonist look good.	82
7632860193	Foot	A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables used to determine the meter of a poetic line	83
7632862255	Foreshadowing	Providing hints of things to come in a story or play	84
7632862256	Form	A structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative	85
7632863958	Framed Narrative	is a literary technique that sometimes serves as a companion piece to a story within a story,	86
7632863959	Free verse	A kind of poetry without rhymed lines, rhythm, or fixed metrical feet	87
7632863960	Genre	A term used to describe literary forms, such as novel, play, and essay	88
7632866930	Grammatical Pause	a cessation of activity because of doubt or uncertainty; a momentary hesitation. I would like to make a pause in my talk and continue after lunch	89
7632866931	Hamarita	a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine	90
7632876496	Heroic Couplet	Two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter and used widely in eighteenth-century verse.	91
7632878541	Hubris	The excessive pride that often leads tragic heroes to their death	92
7632878542	Hyperbaton	an inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis, as in the sentence " this I must see	93
7632880319	Hyperbole	Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect	94
7632881795	Hypophoria	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	95
7632884900	Iamb	a person who is easily cheated or outsmarted, especially an inexperienced speculator	96
7632887474	Iambic Meter	A foot is an iamb if it consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, so the word remark is an iamb	97
7632887475	Idiom	a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words	98
7632889894	Imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	99
7632891666	Indeterminate Ending	is a literary device in which the conflict is left unresolved or ambiguous at the end of the plot	100
7632896577	In Media Res	"In the middle of things"--a Latin term for a narrative that starts not at the beginning of events, but at some other critical point.	101
7632898851	Indirect Characterization	the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc	102
7632901352	Internal Rhyme	a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next	103
7632901353	Irony	A mode of expression in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated, often implying ridicule or light sarcasm; a state of affairs or events that is the reverse of what might have been expected	104
7632903923	Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet	is a received form that has 14 lines and a slightly flexible rhyme scheme	105
7632915226	Jargon	special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand	106
7632915227	Juxtaposition	the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect	107
7632917957	Lament	a passionate expression of grief or sorrow.	108
7632917958	Lampoon	A mocking, satirical assault on a person or situation	109
7632919381	Line	a long, narrow mark or band.	110
7632919382	Litotes	A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis or intensity. Ex: He's not a bad dancer	111
7632921925	Masculine Rhyme	a rhyme of final stressed syllables	112
7632922995	Melodrama	A literary form in which events are exaggerated in order to create an extreme emotional response	113
7632922996	Metaphor	A figure of speech that compares unlike objects	114
7632924973	Meter	The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables found in poetry	115
7632926415	Mentonymy	A figure of speech that uses the name of one thing to represent something else with which it is associated. Ex: "The White House says..."	116
7632928654	Monologue	a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.	117
7632930663	Motif	a decorative design or pattern.	118
7632928655	Moral	A brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature	119
7632932588	Motives/Motivation	is also one's direction to behavior, or what causes a person to want to repeat a behavior. A motive is what prompts the person to act in a certain way, or at least develop an inclination for specific behavior.	120
7632934101	Mystery	something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain.	121
7632934102	Nadsat	is a fictional register or argot used by the teenagers in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange.	122
7632935817	Narrator	telling a story	123
7632935818	Nemesis	person fighting against	124
7632941668	Nihilism	the rejection of all religious and moral principles, often in the belief that life is meaningless.	125
7632941669	Octave	a series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other.	126
7632943792	Ode	A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feeling towards the subject	127
7632945876	Onomatopoeia	The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning	128
7632945877	Oxymoron	A term consisting of contradictory elements juxtaposed to create a paradoxical effect	129
7632948395	Parable	A story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived	130
7632948396	Paradox	A statement that seems self-contradictory but is nevertheless true	131
7632952455	Paradoxical Situation	is an adjective that describes a paradox, something with two meanings that don't make sense together.	132
7632957040	Paradoxical Statement	used by people in business, and it seems to say two opposite things that contradict each other,	133
7632959034	Parallelism	a literary device in which parts of the sentence are grammatically the same, or are similar in construction.	134
7632963083	Paraphrase	A version of a text put into simpler, everyday words	135
7632963084	Parody	an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.	136
7632966611	Paronym	a word that is a derivative of another and has a related meaning.	137
7632966612	Pastoral	A work of literature dealing with rural life	138
7632969878	Pentameter	A verse with five poetic feet per line	139
7632973200	Peripetia	a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative.	140
7632973201	Persona	The role or facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader, a viewer, or the world at large	141
7632976598	Personification	a figure of speech in which objects and animals are given human characteristics.	142
7632978520	Phonetic Intensive	a word whose sound, by an obscure process, to some degree suggests its meaning; as differentiated fro onomatopoetic words	143
7632981101	Picaresque	An episodic novel about a roguelike wanderer who lives off his wits. Ex: Don Quixote, Moll Flanders	144
7632981102	Plot	the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.	145
7632984709	Plot Manipulation	A situation in which an author gives the plot a twist or turn unjustified by preceding action or by the characters involved	146
7632986537	Point of View	The relation in which a narrator or speaker stands to the story or subject matter of a poem.	147
7632989733	Polysyndeton	is a literary technique in which conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed.	148
7632991827	Prose Poem	a piece of writing in prose having obvious poetic qualities, including intensity, compactness, prominent rhythms, and imagery.	149
7632993800	Protagonists	The main character in a work of literature	150
7632995663	Protatic Character	introduced at the beginning of a play, usually for the purpose of exposition Probably a development of the Chorus	151
7632997359	Proverb	a short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice	152
7632999171	Pun	a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.	153
7632999172	Purple Prose	prose that is too elaborate or ornate.	154
7633001763	Quatrain	A four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem	155
7633003946	Quixotic	exceedingly idealistic; unrealistic and impractical.	156
7633003947	Realism	The depiction of people, things, and events as they really are without idealization or exaggeration for effect.	157
7633004003	Refrain	stop oneself from doing something.	158
7633006565	Rhyme	the repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals, used mostly in poetry.	159
7633008120	Rhyme Scheme	The pattern of rhymes within a given poem	160
7633009797	Rhythm	The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry	161
7633011425	Rising Action	a series of events build toward the point of greatest interest. The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the exposition	162
7633014126	Romantic Literature	was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.	163
7633014127	Sarcasm	A sharp, caustic expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt; different from irony, which is more subtle	164
7633016076	Satire	A literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change	165
7633018587	Scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm.	166
7633020197	Semantics	the study of language.	167
7633022310	Sentimental Poetry	is a 1795 paper by Friedrich Schiller on poetic theory and the different types of poetic relationship to the world. The work divides poetry into two forms. Naïve poetry is poetry of direct description while sentimental poetry is self-reflective.	168
7633024058	Sentimentality	excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.	169
7633025707	Sestet	the last six lines of a sonnet.	170
7633028745	Sestina	a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern	171
7633028746	Setting	the total environment for the action in a novel or play. It includes time, place, historical milieu, and social, political, and even spiritual circumstances	172
7633033799	Shakespearean/English Sonnet	The first twelve lines are divided into three quatrains with four lines each. In the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem and then resolves it in the final two lines, called the couplet. The rhyme scheme of the quatrains	173
7633033800	Simile	A figurative comparison using the words like or as	174
7633036404	Soliloquy	an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.	175
7633036405	Sonnet	A popular form of verse consisting of fourteen lines and a prescribed rhyme scheme.	176
7633040561	Spenserian Sonnet	in which the lines are grouped into three interlocked quatrains and a couplet and the rhyme scheme	177
7633045677	Spondee	a foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.	178
7633045678	Stanza	A group of two or more lines in poetry combined according to subject matter, rhyme, or some other plan	179
7633054058	Stress	the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others; the arrangement of stresses within a poem is the foundation of poetic rhythm.	180
7633053966	Steam Of Consciousness	A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind	181
7633117632	Structure	the way something is built	182
7633117633	Style	The manner in which an author uses and arranges words	183
7633119125	Sub-Plot	A subordinate or minor collection of events in a novel or play, usually connected to the main plot	184
7633119126	Sub-Text	The implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of a work of literature	185
7633121156	Suprise	something unexpected	186
7633121157	Symbol	The use of one object to evoke ideas and associations not literally part of the original object	187
7633124492	Synethdsia	the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.	188
7633124493	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole ("fifty masts" for fifty ships) or the whole signifies the part ("days" for life, as in "He lived his days in Canada"). Also when the name of the material stands for the thing itself ("pigskin" for football)	189
8564651210	Synonym	a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.	190
7633132165	Syntax	The organization of language into meaningful structure; every sentence has a particular pattern of words	191
7633132166	Tercet	a set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet.	192
7633134892	Terza Rima	s a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems	193
7633138739	Tetrameter	a verse of four measures.	194
7633138740	Theme	The main idea or meaning, often an abstract idea upon which a work of literature is built	195
7633140924	Titular Character	A character whose name appears in the title of the novel or play; also known as the eponymous character	196
7633140925	Tone	The author's attitude toward the subject being written about. The spirit or quality that is the work's emotional essence	197
7633140926	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	198
7633144081	Tragic-Comedy	Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.	199
7633145913	Turning Point	a change in a plot or story	200
7633148246	Understatment	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	201
7633148375	Unity	come together	202
7633151800	Unreliable Narritive	is a narrator, whether in literature, film, or theatre, whose credibility has been seriously compromised.	203
7633151801	Utopic	modeled on or aiming for a state in which everything is perfect; idealistic.	204
7633151802	Verse	A synonym for poetry. Also a group of lines in a song or poem; also a single line of poetry	205
7633153564	Villanelle	A French verse form calculated to appear simple and spontaneous but consisting of nineteen lines and a prescribed pattern of rhymes	206
7633153565	Zeugma	a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways. An example of a zeugma is, "She broke his car and his heart." When you use one word to link two thoughts, you're using a zeugma.	207
7633155737	Ethos	the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its beliefs and aspirations.	208
7633155738	Pathos	a quality that evokes pity or sadness.	209
7633156768	Logos	the logic behind an argument.	210

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2810471558	allegory	extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text	0
2810473774	alliteration	the repetition of an initial consonant sound	1
2810474402	allusion	a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event. real or fictional	2
2810475405	ambiguity	the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage	3
2810475978	analogy	reasoning or arguing from parallel cases	4
2810477538	anaphora	the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning or successive clauses or verses	5
2810478107	antecedent	the noun or noun phrase referred to by a pronoun	6
2810479539	antithesis	the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced prhases	7
2810480122	aphorism	1. a tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion 2. a brief statement of a principle	8
2810481570	apostrophe	a rhetorical term for breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing	9
2810482424	appeal to authority	a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or insitution	10
2810483939	appeal to ignorance	a fallacy that uses an opponent's inability to disprove a conclusion as proof of the conclusions correctness	11
2810486752	assonance	the identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words	12
2810487208	asyndeton	the omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses	13
2810488222	chiasmus	verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed	14
2810491583	circular argument	an argument that commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove	15
2810492840	claim	an arguable statement, which may be a claim of fact, value, or policy	16
2810493682	clause	a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate	17
2810494498	climax	mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight and in parallel construction with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of a series of events	18
2810495962	colloquial	characteristic of writing that seeks the effect of informal spoken language as distinct from formal or literary english	19
2810497830	concession	an argumentative strategy by which a speaker or writer acknowledges the validity of an opponent's point	20
2810498704	connotation	the emotional implications and associations that a word may carry	21
2810499486	deduction	a method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises	22
2810500736	denotation	the direct or dictionary meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings	23
2810502100	dialect	a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, and/or vocabulary	24
2810503504	diction	1. the choice and use of words in speech or writing 2. a way of speaking, usually assessed in terms of prevailing standards of pronunciation and elocution	25
2810506693	didactic	intended or inclined to teach or instruct, often excessively	26
2810507637	epiphora (epistrophe)	the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses	27
2810509085	epitaph	1. a short inscription in prose or verse on a tombstone or monument 2. a statement or speech commemorating someone who has died	28
2810511279	ethos	a persuasive appeal based on the projected character of the speaker or narrator	29
2810512472	eulogy	a formal expression of praise for someone who has recently died	30
2810513080	euphemism	the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit	31
2810513789	extended metaphor	a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem	32
2810515210	fallacy	an error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid	33
2810515856	false dilemma	a fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options when in fact more options are available	34
2810525290	flashback	a shift in a narrative to an earlier event that interrupts the normal chronological development of a story	35
2810526767	hasty generalization	a fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence	36
2810553787	hyperbole	a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement	37
2810555028	imagery	vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses	38
2810555892	invective	denunciatory or abusive language; discourse that casts blame on somebody or something	39
2810557816	irony	the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. a statement or situation where the meaning is directly contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea	40
2810559317	jargon	the specialized language of a professional, occupational, or other group, often meaningless to outsiders	41
2810559958	litotes	a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite	42
2810561150	metaphor	a figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common	43
2810561979	metonymy	a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated (crown and royalty)	44
2810563028	mode of discourse	the way in which information is presented in a text. the for traditional modes are narration, description, exposition, and argument.	45
2810563533	mood	1. the quality of a verb that conveys the writer's attitude towards a subject 2. the emotion evoked by a text	46
2810564537	onomatopoeia	the formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to	47
2810565198	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side	48
2810566065	paradox	a statement that appears to contradict itself	49
2810567075	parallelism	the similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	50
2810568243	parody	a literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule	51
2810568747	pathos	the means of persuasion that appeals to the audience's emotions	52
2810570008	personification	a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities	53
2810572965	prose	ordinary writing as distinguished from verse	54
2810573372	refutatuon	the part of an argument where in a speaker or writer anticipates and counters opposing points of view	55
2810573643	repetition	an instanceof using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage- dwelling on a point	56
2810574742	rhetoric	the study and practice of effective communication	57
2810575304	rhetorical question	a question asked merely for effect with no answer expected	58
2810575901	sarcasm	a mocking, often ironic or satirical remark	59
2810576132	satire	a textor performance that uses irony,derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity	60
2810576802	simile	a figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by "like" or "as"	61
2810577943	style	narrowly interpreted as those figures that ornament speech or writing; broadly as representing a manifestation or the person speaking or writing	62
2810579414	syllogism	a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion	63
2810579947	symbol	a person, place, action, or thing that represents something other than itself	64
2810581145	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part	65
2810581484	syntax	1. the arrangement of words in a sentence 2. the study of the rules that govern the way words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences	66
2810583106	thesis	the main idea of an essay or report, often written as a single declarative sentence	67
2810583908	tone	a writer's attitude toward the subject and audience. tone is primarily conveyed through diction, point of view, syntax, and level of formality	68
2810584487	transition	the connection between two parts of a piece of writing, contributing to coherence	69

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9030599539	assimilation	to absorb; to make similar	0
9030599540	consensus	general agreement	1
9030599541	context	circumstances of a situation; environment	2
9030599542	derived	copied or adopted from a source	3
9030599543	incumbent	imposed as duty; obligatory	4
9030601705	inevitable	certain to happen, unavoidable	5
9030601706	malleable	easily shaped or formed; easily influenced	6
9030601707	subdue	to restrain; to hold back	7
9030623375	assiduous	hard-working	8
9030623376	dogged	stubbornly preservering	9
9030623377	intrepid	courageous; fearless	10
9030623378	maverick	one who is independent and resists adherence to a group	11
9030623379	obdurate	stubborn; inflexible	12
9030625309	obstinate	stubbornly adhering to an opinion or a course of action	13
9030625310	proliferate	to grow or increase rapidly	14
9030625311	tenacity	persistence	15
9030625312	vitality	energy; power to survive	16
9082454593	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	17
9082454594	consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	18
9082454595	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	19
9082456473	polysyndeton	repetition of conjunctions	20
9082461668	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	21
9082461669	metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	22
9082461670	asyndeton	a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	23
9082463169	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	24
9082463170	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	25
9082463171	epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	26
9082463172	onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	27

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8011772316	Bandwagon	Arguments that urge people to follow the same path everyone else is taking. They recommend a course of action b/c everyone else is doing it.	0
8011772317	Red Herring	Dodges main issue. Topic A is under discussion; Topic B is introduced under the guise of being relevant to topic A (it really isn't, however) Topic A is abandoned.	1
8011772318	Equivocation	Argument that gives a lie an honest appearance; a half truth. Juvenile tricks of language. Bill Clinton's "I never had sex with that woman" - loosely defined sex	2
8011772319	Hasty Generalization	Inference drawn from inadequate evidence, and it jumps to conclusions. Forms the basis for most stereotypes about people or institutions: because a few people in a large group are observed and act in a certain way, all members of that group are inferred to act similarly.	3
8011772320	Ad Hominem	These arguments are directed at the character of a person rather than at the argument or claim he or she makes. Turns argument into two sides: Good guy vs. Bad guy	4
8011772321	Ad Populum	Appeal to the populus; under bandwagon umbrella. Appeal to the popularity of a claim as a reason for accepting it.	5
8011772322	Faulty Analogy	The argument that gives an analogy that doesn't hold together; the compared parts are dissimilar. Meant to help reason a circumstance b/c people are more inclined to believe a comparison.	6
8011772323	Begging the Question	Assuming as true the very claim that is being disputed - form of circular argument that is divorce from reality. Most basic examples involve rephrasing. Similar to Nonsequitor.	7
8011772324	Either/Or Choice Also known as "Hobson's Choice" on the AP test :)	A way to simplify arguments and give them power is to reduce the options for action to only two choices. One option favorable, the other not so much.	8
8011772325	The Straw Man	Attacking an argument that is not there; it is much weaker than the point the opponent makes. The speaker is setting up an argument that is easy to knock down, proceeds to do so, and then claims victory over the opponent.	9
8011772326	Complex Question	Two-pronged question (combines two questions, one is implied). Involves an implicit argument, which is intended to trap the respondent into acknowledging something that he or she might not otherwise not want to acknowledge. Ex. When did you stop stealing?	10
8011772327	Nonsequitor	In this argument, the reasoning does not hold together; it fails to connect logically. One point does not follow from the other. Ex. If my teacher really liked me, he would give me an A. Can be seen as similar to begging the question, mainly because the dots don't really connect.	11
8011772328	Slippery Slope	Writer exaggerates the likely consequences of an action, usually to frighten readers (seen as a scare tactic). An argument that portrays today's tiny misstep as tomorrow's slide into disaster.	12
8011772329	Faulty Causality	Cause and effect problem; the fallacious assumption that because one event or action follows another, the first necessarily caused the other. Supposed connection between cause and effect turns out to be completely wrong. Ex. For instance, doctors now believe that when an elderly person falls and is found to have a broken hip, it was usually the break that caused the fall (not the other way around).	13
8011784975	Fallacies		14
8011785740	fallacies		15