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AP language & Composition Term list #3 Flashcards

7520377948	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order Example: Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country.	0
7520397008	archaic diction	old-fashioned or outdated choice of words Ex: beliefs for which our forebears fought	1
7520402200	asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clause, or words	2
7520412460	hortative sentence	Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, or implores (a call to action).	3
7520422628	imperative sentence	sentence used to command or enjoin Ex: My fellow citizens of the world; ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man	4
7520438651	juxtaposition	placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities of differences EX: We are the heirs of that first revolution. let the word go forth... that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans--born in this century	5
7520457962	Oxymoron	Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	6
7520469790	rhetorical question	figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect, rather than to be answered.	7
7520474397	Synecdoche	Figure of speech that uses a part to present the whole. EX: In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course	8
7520491223	Zeugma	Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that introduces different, often incongruous meanings.	9
7520509118	Refutation	A denial of the validity of an opposing argument. In order to sound reasonable, refutations often follow a concession that acknowledges that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable EX: Lou Gehrig refutes that his bad break is a cause for discouragement by saying that the he "has an awful lot to live for"	10
7520536025	Occasion	The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written EX: In the cause of Gehrig's speech the occasion is Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. More specifically, his moment comes at home plate between games of a doubleheader.	11
7520552158	Counterargument	An opposing argument or statement to the one a writer is putting forward. Rather than ignoring a counterargument, a strong writer will usually address it through the process of concession and refutation. EX: Some of Lou Gehrig's listeners might have argued that his bad break was a close for discouragement or despair.	12
7520575186	Context	The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. EX: The context for Lou Gehrig's speech is the recent announcement of his illness and his subsequent retirement, but also the poignant contrast between his potent career and his debilitating disease.	13

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7372988233	Deus Ex Machina	the circumstance where an implausible concept or a divine character is introduced into a storyline for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an interesting outcome.	0
7372644337	Allegory	The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.	1
7372646224	Allegory (story)	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	2
7372649693	Alliteration	The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words	3
7372651436	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.	4
7372653264	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	5
7372654917	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them	6
7372661347	Antithesis	The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite.	7
7372663176	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle.	8
7372665133	Apostrophe	A prayer like figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction such as liberty or love.	9
7372675101	Atmosphere	The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described.	10
7372676961	Caricature	A verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics.	11
7372679205	Chiasmus	a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g.	12
7372689144	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects	13
7372691364	Didacticism	Have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles.	14
7372707608	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept	15
7372709926	Extended Metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	16
7372712021	Figurative Language	Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid	17
7372714497	Litotes	A figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions.	18
7372716887	tautology	The saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style	19
7372719190	Figure of Speech	A device used to produce figurative language.	20
7372721260	Generic conventions	Describes traditions for each genre.	21
7372723996	Genre	The major category into which a literary work fits	22
7372727298	Homily	Any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.	23
7372729694	Hyperbole	A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.	24
7372731965	Imagery	The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions.	25
7372737475	Invective	An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.	26
7372740533	Irony	The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true.	27
7372743126	Metaphor	A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity.	28
7372745599	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.	29
7372747775	Mood	The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work.	30
7372749886	Narrative	The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.	31
7372751743	onomatopoeia	A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words.	32
7372755182	Oxymoron	A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox	33
7372757750	Paradox	A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.	34
7372760369	Parallelism	Refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.	35
7372777945	Malapropism	A word humorously misused	36
7372777946	Parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	37
7372777947	Pedantic	An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish	38
7372777948	Personification	A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions.	39
7372783710	Point of view	The perspective from which a story is told.	40
7372786223	Prose	Refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms	41
7372788313	Repetition	The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern	42
7372804990	Sarcasm	Involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something	43
7372807505	Satire	A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.	44
7372807571	Style	An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and others.	45
7372812980	Symbol/Symbolism	Anything that represents itself and stands for something else	46
7372814999	Theme	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life.	47
7372816614	Tone	Describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.	48
7372818966	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of fact	49
7372822587	Wit	Intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights	50
7372833522	Hero	A protagonist who behave virtuously	51
7372835639	Villain	An evil or cruel antagonist	52
7372837833	Dialect	Dialogue written to reflect qualities of a character's speech	53
7372840130	Antagonist	Force or character who struggles against the protagonist	54
7372843143	Foreshadowing	Hinting at events that will occur later in a story	55
7372845704	Propaganda	Literature plainly written to persuade the reader to espouse the author's position on a significant issue of his time.	56
7372847605	Protagonist	Main character of a story	57
7372847606	Conflict	Opposition of two or more characters or forces	58
7372849761	Suspense	Reader anxiety resulting from the author's withholding of plot details	59
7372852262	Setting	The time, place, and way of life in which the action of the story occurs	60
7372859612	Foil	Character that opposes another	61
7372870939	Persona	Personality created by the author that narrates the story	62
7372861957	Tragedy	A story in which the protagonist's flaws cause him tremendous suffering	63
7372873815	Anecdote	A short narrative of a single interesting or amusing incident	64
7372877232	Frame Story	Type of story containing a second story set within the opening and closing narrative	65
7372891295	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special	66
7372914412	onomatopoeia	a word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing.	67
7372926290	Pun	a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings.	68
7372933251	Achetype	a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature.	69
7372966991	Catharsis	an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress.	70
7372978165	Comedy	a literary genre and a type of dramatic work that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having cheerful ending.	71
7373029260	Stream of Consciousness	a method of narration that describes in words the flow of thoughts in the minds of the characters.	72
7373036572	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.	73
7373067180	Anti-hero	a prominent character in a play or book that has characteristics opposite to that of a conventional hero.	74
7373081427	Dystopia	a world in which everything is imperfect and everything goes terribly wrong.	75
7373119519	Double Entendre	a literary device that can be defined as a phrase or a figure of speech that might have multiple senses, interpretations or two different meanings or that could be understood in two different ways.	76
7372763338	Malapropism	A word humorously misused	77

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AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

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7232645180	Pedestrian	Dull, commonplace	0
7232645181	Pernicious	/ spiteful, malicious	1
7232645182	Cavalier	arrogant, /haughty	2
7232645183	Voracious	Hungry, ravenous, gluttonous, /greedy	3
7232645184	Pedantic	Finicky, plodding, full, hair splitting	4
7232645185	Punctilious	/Scrupulous, painstaking	5
7232645186	Pecuniary	Financial, fiscal, economic, monetary	6
7232645187	Sanguine	Confidant, optimistic, /cheerful	7
7232645188	Mordant	Caustic, penetrating, /sarcastic, biting	8
7232645189	Seditious	Treasonous, /disloyal, rebellious	9
7232645190	Abstract	Intangible, conceptual, /theoretical	10
7232645191	Concrete	Real, /tangible, existing	11
7232645192	Cynical	pessimistic, /sarcastic, distrusting, suspicious	12
7232645193	Sarcastic	/Ironic, mocking, cynical, mordant	13
7232645194	Bellicose	Argumentative, confrontational, belligerent, pugnacious	14
7232645195	Dogmatic	dictatorial, rigid, /inflexible, authoritarian	15
7232645196	Condescending	Patronizing, disdainful, /haughty, arrogant	16
7232645197	Vituperative	/Insulting, abusive, offensive, slanderous	17
7232645198	Pastoral	Rustic, countrified, /rural	18
7232645199	Synthestic	/Sense, subjective sensation or image of sense	19

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AP Language Terms Flashcards

For the AP Language Exam
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- Diction
- Syntax
- Rhetorical

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4427153170	Concrete words	Nouns experienced through senses	0
4427160958	Concrete words	Shout, garlicky, sticky, bumpy	1
4427164607	General words	Big ideas or categories of words	2
4427172319	General words	Furniture, games, shows, people	3
4427191243	Abstract words	Intangible nouns that cannot be experienced through senses	4
4427194746	Abstract words	Freedom, dreams, love, happiness	5
4427202563	Specific words	Anything that gives details	6
4427207563	Specific words	Green chair, Scrabble, Game of Thrones, CEO	7
4427217811	Idioms	Expressions whose meaning are not predictable from visual clues	8
4427220036	Idioms	Arrow to the knee, old hat	9
4427228101	Trite expressions (clichés)	Hackneyed and unoriginal phrases	10
4427232721	Trite expressions (clichés)	Raining cats and dogs, jaw dropped, shocked	11
4427236058	Empty word	A word with no real meaning	12
4427238641	Empty words	Like, really, literally, actually	13
4427243288	Racist language	Anything biased toward a certain race. Usually very subtle	14
4427246384	Racist language	Peanut rows in theaters, asians are good at math	15
4427252051	Ethnocentric language	Language that insinuates a feeling of ethnic superiority over other groups or people's	16
4427259413	Ethnocentric language	John Smith calling Pocahontas a savage, how Americans talk about themselves	17
4427266542	Denotation	Dictionary definition of a word. Usually very obvious	18
4427274375	Denotation	"Handicapped" as opposed to "specially abled"	19
4427277583	Connotation	Feelings and emotions a word promotes	20
4427280854	Connotation	"Crippled" as opposed to "handicapped"	21
4427292816	Homonyms	Words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings	22
4427298257	Homonyms	Hi, high; they're, there, their; reed, read	23
4427318995	Standard American English	Speech that has no salient, regional, or dialect markers	24
4429331653	Standard American English	"Physical activity is difficult," "I'm having fun," "this is great."	25
4429376103	Nonstandard dialect	Language not taught in schools and linked to slang and regional words	26
4429385360	Nonstandard dialect	I ain't never done nothing like that	27
4429336737	Regional words and expressions	Words, expressions, or pronunciations favored by speakers in a particular geographical area	28
4429354496	Regional words and expressions	Faucet, supper, iron (arn)	29
4429359853	Slang	Informal language restricted to a certain group of people	30
4429362516	Slang	Fleek, bae, swag, groovy	31
4429365703	Colloquial language	Words of everyday speech that are appropriate in formal speech	32
4429369745	Colloquial language	"I wanna go to the store," "I'm gonna do that tomorrow"	33
4429390620	Archaic and obsolete words	Words that are never used today but appear in older texts	34
4429395784	Archaic and obsolete words	Wherefore art thou Romeo	35
4429401037	Double talk	Vague language with double meanings intended to confuse an audience	36
4429405313	Double talk	Politicians use it to talk about revenue and touchy subjects	37
4429413401	Neologisms	Newly coined words or expressions	38
4429419171	Neologisms	Google, "I googled it," texting, selfie	39
4429422710	Technical language (jargon)	1. Special language for an occupation 2. Over complicated writing, saying too many or too technical words	40
4429436237	Technical language (jargon)	"A small fracture to her ulna", as opposed to "a broken arm."	41
4429429619	Euphemisms	Polite expressions substituted for root words	42
4429466828	Euphemisms	"He passed away," "my late husband," "kicked the bucket."	43
4429470788	Pretentious writing	Using more elaborate writing than necessary	44
4429476790	Pretentious writing	"The day of the exam is upon us," as opposed to "we have a test today."	45
4429481971	Sexist language	Any language expressing narrow ideas about gender roles	46
4429486644	Sexist language	"Woman chemist" instead of "chemist," "go make me a sandwich, woman."	47
4429498498	Simple	A sentence with only one clause	48
4429503403	Compound	A sentence with two or more independent clauses	49
4429510672	Complex	A sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause	50
4429523146	Compound - complex	A sentence with two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause	51
4429541692	Compound - complex	The girl who likes to dress in skirts, went to the party, and she is happy.	52
4429546785	Subject	The noun the sentence is about	53
4429548582	Predicate	The action the subject does	54
4429550682	Declarative	A sentence that states something	55
4429555798	Interrogative	A sentence that asks a question	56
4429564989	Exclamatory	A sentence that announces something	57
4429570143	Imperative	A sentence that gives a command	58
4429577329	Natural order	Subject coming before the verb in a sentence	59
4429581108	Natural order	The man walked. ("man" preceding "walked")	60
4429584039	Inverted order	Verb coming before the subject in a sentence	61
4429585812	Inverted order	Down the street lived the man and his wife.	62
4429625041	Loose or cumulative sentence	Main idea comes at the beginning of the sentence and is followed by modifiers	63
4429657195	Loose or cumulative sentence	The elephants proceeded on their walk, pounding the dry dirt and swinging their trunks	64
4429684890	Periodic sentence	Main idea comes at the end of the sentence and is preceded by modifiers	65
4429691546	Periodic sentence	With low taxes, beautiful views, and a mild climate, the city is a great place to live	66
4429728745	Juxtaposition	Two things coupled that are not usually together	67
4429731325	Juxtaposition	Bright smoke, cruel love, cold fire	68
4429787040	Parallel structure (parallelism)	Same structure repeatedly used in a work	69
4429792560	Parallel structure (parallelism)	The campers loved hiking, swimming, and sailing	70
4429795226	Rhetorical question	A question not meant to be answered	71
4429890538	Rhetorical question	So why do we do this? Because we want to	72
4429898043	Rhetorical fragment	Proposes an idea not meant to be responded to. Used to emphasize an important idea.	73
4429917370	Rhetorical fragment	I felt myself settling into another version of myself. A little younger, a little less responsible.	74
4429957529	Elliptical construction	Word or word phrase omitted and implied by surrounding context	75
4430017264	Elliptical construction	Lacy can do something about the problem but I don't know what. (She can do)	76
4430047941	Balanced structure	A sentence with both parts parallel and about the same length	77
4430084175	Balanced structure	It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. (Each clause as a whole)	78
4430099384	Convoluted structure	Main idea split in two by a modifier	79
4430152753	Convoluted structure	I guess what I be saying is there ain't no better reason So rid yourself of vanities and just go with the seasons It's what I aim to do, our name is our virtue	80
4430166126	Centered structure	Main clause is in the middle of the sentence and surrounded by subordinate clauses	81
4430185461	Centered structure	After digging a large hole, I planted a tree, which was also large and hard to manage.	82
4430189783	Repetition	Repeated set of words usually close together	83
4430192254	Repetition	Let freedom ring, let freedom ring, God almighty let freedom ring.	84
4430208602	Telegraphic	Sentence length shorter than five words	85
4430213233	Short	Sentence length about five words	86
4430218232	Medium	Sentence length about eighteen words	87
4430250412	Long or involved	Sentence length about thirty words or more	88
4430263246	Adverbial clause	A dependent clause that functions as an adverb to modify	89
4430265647	Adverbial clause	With regret, she left her book behind. (With regret)	90
4430271762	Prepositional phrase	A modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object	91
4430279848	Prepositional phrase	Before the game, it rained.	92
4430282864	Verbal phrase	Verbals and any verb forms, modifiers, objects, or complements. Participles, gerunds, and infinitives	93
4430293472	Participles	Drinking water, flying high	94
4430306111	Gerund	He is good at running	95
4430313837	Infinitives	To fly, to walk, to run	96
4430411249	Parallelism	Similarities of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses	97
4430417801	Parallelism	He tried to make the law clear, precise, and equitable.	98
4430423072	Antithesis	Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas, often in paralleled structure	99
4430426097	Antithesis	Place your virtues one pedestal; put your vices under a rock	100
4430440946	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order	101
4430443940	Anastrophe	One ad does not a survey make	102
4430452124	Parenthesis	Insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence	103
4430457450	Parenthesis	There is even, and it is the achievement of this book, a curious sense of happiness running through its paragraphs.	104
4430467282	Apposition	A noun or noun phrase that follows another noun immediately or defines or amplifies its meaning	105
4430470403	Apposition	John Morgan, the president of Sons of the Republic, could not be reached by phone.	106
4430484207	Asyndeton	The omission of conjunctions between related clauses	107
4430489063	Asyndeton	They ran, played, jumped, swam all day.	108
4430504649	Polysyndeton	The deliberate use of many conjunctions	109
4430506536	Polysyndeton	They ran and played and jumped and swam all day.	110
4430512734	Alliteration	Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words	111
4430516265	Alliteration	A sable, silent, solemn forest stood.	112
4430526199	Assonance	The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words	113
4430529336	Assonance	And I'm sure that every girl is pearl and the world is a perfect globe	114
4430535538	Anaphora	The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses	115
4430537918	Anaphora	It is a luxury, it is a privilege, it is an indulgence.	116
4430541931	Epistrophe	The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses	117
4430544788	Epistrophe	They saw no evil, they spoke no evil they heard no evil	118
4430548154	Epanalepsis	Repitition at the end of the clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause	119
4430551744	Epanalepsis	Year chases year, decay pursues day	120
4430553840	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	121
4430557030	Anadiplosis	The crime was common, common be the pain	122
4430559608	Climax	Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance	123
4430562606	Climax	Let a man acknowledge obligations to his family, his country, and his God	124
4430567863	Antimetabole	Two clauses with the same words and reversed grammatical structure	125
4430576507	Antimetabole	Then arises, it is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults	126
4430582527	Chiasmus	Reversal of grammatical structure without the repetition of words	127
4430586786	Chiasmus	It is hard to take money, but to spend currency is easy	128
4430591914	Polyptoton	Repetition of words derived from the same root	129
4430593871	Polyptoton	Their blood bleeds	130
4430603879	Metaphor	An implied comparison between two unlike things based on a small similarity	131
4430626943	Simile	An explicit comparison between two unlike things based on a small similarity. Uses the words "like" or "as"	132
4430632148	Synecdoche	A part of something used to refer to it as a whole	133
4430634940	Synecdoche	Fifty head of cattle, nice set of wheels	134
4430638726	Metonymy	An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations	135
4430644935	Metonymy	The pen is mightier than the sword	136
4430657752	Anataclasis	Repetition of a word in two different senses	137
4430661040	Anataclasis	And there's bars on the corner and bars on the heart	138
4430668397	Paranomasia	Words alike in sound but different in meaning	139
4430689085	Paranomasia	I used to be a tap dancer before I fell in the sink	140
4430710234	Syllepsis	Use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs	141
4430716079	Syllepsis	When I address Fred, I never have to raise my voice or my hopes	142
4430721778	Anthimeria	The substitution of one part of speech for another	143
4430723504	Anthimeria	That child chopsticks so well	144
4430725657	Periphrasis	The substitution of an attribute word or phrase for a proper name, or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality characteristic	145
4430731675	Periphrasis	That young pop singer thinks she's a real Madonna, doesn't she	146
4430736590	Personification	Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities	147
4430739408	Personification	The ground thirsts for rain	148
4430742163	Hyperbole	The use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect	149
4430746116	Hyperbole	His eloquence would split rocks, I read every book on the planet	150
4430751170	Litote	Understatement	151
4430753097	Litote	It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor in my brain	152
4430760007	Erotema	Rhetorical question	153
4430760021	Irony	Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite of the literal meaning of the word 1. Situational: expected vs. what happens 2. Dramatic: viewer knows vs. character knows 3. Verbal: they say vs. they mean	154
4430764829	Verbal irony (sarcasm)	I was simply overjoyed at the thought of leaving my friends to go take an exam	155
4430775212	Onomatopoeia	Use of words whose sound echoes the sense	156
4430789929	Onomatopoeia	A loud crash came from upstairs (crash)	157
4430791730	Oxymoron	Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings	158
4430795004	Oxymoron	Cold fire, jumbo shrimp	159
4430801054	Paradox	Apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth	160
4430804615	Paradox	Art is a form lying in order to tell the truth	161
4430806940	Zeugma	The single word does not fit grammatically with one member of the pair	162
4430812330	Zeugma	He maintained a flourishing business and racehorse	163

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Crime and Punishment Vocab. 1 - AP Literature Flashcards

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5426978158	Abject	-(of a condition or situation) extremely bad, unpleasant, degrading, hopeless, miserable -(of a person or behavior) completely without pride or dignity, worthless, low, degraded	0
5426999799	Prevaricate	speak or act in an evasive way; dodge (the issue); waffle	1
5427012117	Admonishes	-warn someone firmly, scold, criticize -advise or urge (someone) earnestly, counsel -warn someone of something to be avoided	2
5427021429	Vice	-immoral or wicked behavior, wrongdoing, evil -criminal activities involving something illegal -an immoral or wicked personal characteristic	3
5427040288	Languid	-displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed -weak from illness or fatigue	4
5427053456	Magnanimous	-very generous or forgiving, especially towards a rival or someone less powerful than oneself; charitable	5
5427060259	Emaciated	-abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or lack of food	6
5427068116	Bilious	-spiteful, bad tempered HINT: billy goat -affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting; sick, queasy	7
5427082760	Contemptuous	-showing contempt; scornful; disdainful;disrespectful	8
5427089304	Penitent	-feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant; ashamed;regretful -person who repents their sins or wrongdoings and seeks forgiveness from God	9
5427114905	Ignominy	public shame or disgrace; humiliation, embarrassment	10
5427114906	Banefactor	-a person who gives money or other help to a person or cause; patron, supporter	11
5427135304	Lavish	-very rich, elaborate, luxurious; costly, expensive -bestow something in generous or extravagant quantities	12
5427138133	Destitution	-poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for oneself	13
5427142479	Rend	-tear something onto two or more pieces -wrench something violently -cause great emotional pain to person or their heart	14
5427148941	Renounce	-formally declare one's abandonment of a claim, right, or possession; reject -refuse to recognize or abide by any longer -declare that one will no longer engage in or support, abandon, disown	15
5427158022	Huckster	-a person that sells small items, either door-to-door, or from stall; trader, seller	16
5427166214	Perpetuity	-a thing that lasts forever or for an indefinite period in particular -the state or quality of lasting forever	17
5427172645	Impudent	-not showing due respect for another person; cocky, cheeky	18
5427176514	Interposed	-place or insert between one thing and another -intervene between parties	19
5427181992	Remittance	-a sum of money send, especially by mail, in payment for goods or services or as a gift -hint: TRANSMITTANCE	20
5427186685	Repugnance	-intense disgust -inconsistency or incapability of ideas and statements	21
5427192861	Metaphysical	-of or relating to metaphysics -of or characteristic of the metaphysical poets -loss of nature	22
5427199918	Ruffian	-violent person, especially one involved in crime, hooligan	23
5427203164	Jaunty	having or expressing a lively, cheerful and self-confident manner; happy, merry, jolly	24

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AP Literature Vocabulary List 7 Flashcards

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6190697623	laconic	Using very few words	0
6190697624	mien	a person's demeanor, bearing, manner	1
6190697625	veracity	Truthfulness	2
6190697626	wry	amusing, ironic	3
6190697627	confound	confuse	4
6190697628	ethereal	light, airy, tenuous	5
6190697629	ambivalent	Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas	6
6190697630	analogous	Comparable	7
6190697631	emissary	messenger	8
6190697632	felicity	great happiness; bliss	9
6190697633	incendiary	combustible, flammable, burning easily	10
6190697634	magnanimous	generous or forgiving	11
6190697635	ubiquitous	found everywhere; omnipresent	12
6190697636	venerable	respected because of age	13
6190697637	repartee	a quick, witty reply	14
6190697638	morose	Gloomy	15
6190697639	countenance	Facial expression	16
6190697640	feign	To pretend	17
6190723925	ambiguity (term)	quality of being intentionally unclear	18
6190727044	anachronism	an element of a story that is out of its time frame sometimes used for effect; can be a mistake	19
6190734404	aphorism	a terse statement that presents a general truth or moral principle	20
6190765556	interior monologue	A literary technique used in poetry and prose that reveals a character's unspoken thoughts and feelings. May be presented by character or narrator.	21

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AP Language Vocab List #10 Flashcards

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6576692154	Dilatory	(adjective) slow to act; intended to cause delay	0
6576693746	Eclectic	(adjective) deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources	1
6576695967	Innate	(adjective) inborn, natural	2
6576695968	Innocuous	(adjective) not harmful or offensive	3
6576697008	Laudable	(adjective) deserving praise and commendation (of an action, idea, or goal)	4
6576699012	Mitigate	(verb) make less severe, serious or painful	5
6576700151	Myriad	(noun/adjective) a multitude, large/great number or quantity; countless, extremely great in number	6
6576704179	Perfunctory	(adjective) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection	7
6576704180	Quotidian	(adjective) of or occurring every day; daily	8
6576705164	Renege	(verb) to go back on a promise or contract	9
6576707668	Reprehensible	(adjective) deserving censure or condemnation	10
6576707669	Specious	(adjective) superficially plausible, but actually wrong	11
6576710240	Temerity	(noun) excessive confidence or boldness; audacity	12
6576710241	Terse	(adjective) sparing in the use of words	13

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Character Terms for AP Literature Flashcards

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7243649991	Mentor	a common archetype in literature. The mentor is usually old, and this person often has some kind of magical abilities or a much greater breadth of knowledge than others possess. Mentors help heroes along their journeys, usually by teaching them how to help themselves (though mentors sometimes directly intervene in extreme situations). The mentor often ends up dying but is sometimes resurrected or revisited even after death.	0
7243652188	Stock Character	a dramatic or literary character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works. a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer.	1
7243652189	Dynamic Character	a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude; also undergoes changes throughout the narrative, due to conflicts he encounters on his journey. A dynamic character faces trials and tribulations, and takes time to learn from his encounters, his experiences, and his mistakes, as well as from other characters.	2
7243652897	Flat Character	two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work. a type of character in fiction that does not change too much from the start of the narrative to its end. Flat characters are often said not to have any emotional depth.	3
7243652898	Round Character	a complex personality. Like real people, they have depth in feelings and passions. a round character has many layers of personality. Writers define a round character fully, both physically and mentally. It is the character with whom the audience can sympathize, associate with, or relate to, as he seems a character they might have seen in their real lives.	4
7243653453	Foil	a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character.	5
7243654725	Confidant/Confidante	confidant refers to someone to whom private or personal matters are confided (i.e., someone trusted). A confidant or confidante is someone to whom private matters are confided. (The words confidant and confidante are interchangeable, but strict grammarians reserve confidant for males and confidante for females.)	6
7243657646	Direct Characterization	how an author tells his or her reader about a character; when the author specifically reveals traits about the character in a direct, straightforward manner.	7
7243659928	Indirect Characterization	the process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.	8

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AP Spanish Literature : Themes Flashcards

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7066253246	Las relaciones interpersonales	La amistad y la hostilidad El amor y el desprecio La comunicacion o la falta de comunicacion El individuo y la comunidad Las relaciones de poder Las relaciones familiares	0
7066253247	La construccion del genero	El machismo Las relaciones sociales El sistema patriarcal La sexualidad La tradicion y la ruptura	1
7066253248	Las sociedades en contexto	La asmilacion y la marginacion Diversidad Las divisiones socioeconomicas El imperialismo El nacionalismo y el regionalismo	2
7066253249	El tiempo y el espacio	El carpe diem y el momento mori En individuo en su entorno La naturaleza y el ambiente La relacion entre el tiempo y el espacio El tiempo lineal y el tiempo circular La trayectoria y la transformacion	3
7066253250	La dualidad del ser	La construccion de la realidad La espiritualidad y la religion La imagen publica y la imagen privada La introspeccion	4

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AP Lit Semester 1 Flashcards

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5435664334	allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	0
5435664335	antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.	1
5435666847	ambiguity	uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language.	2
5435669357	undertone	an underlying quality or feeling.	3
5435669358	antecedent	a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another.	4
5435672446	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant..	5
5435674446	parallelism	the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.	6
5435676170	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	7
5435680146	kennings	a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning, e.g., oar-steed = ship	8
5435680147	caesura	(in Greek and Latin verse) a break between words within a metrical foot. (in modern verse) a pause near the middle of a line.	9
5435683445	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	10
5435762801	allusion	an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.	11
5435765296	symbol	a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	12
5435767927	elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	13
5435769953	eulogy	a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly, typically someone who has just died.	14
5435771681	patronymic	a name derived from the name of a father or ancestor, typically by the addition of a prefix or suffix, e.g., Johnson, O'Brien, Ivanovich.	15
5435774155	thane	(in Anglo-Saxon England) a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble.	16
5435776328	enjambment	(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	17
5435778396	scansion	the action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm. the rhythm of a line of verse.	18
5435781645	Zeitgeist	the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.	19
5435797529	personification	the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.	20
5435797530	juxtaposition	the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.	21
5435800534	volta	Italian word for "turn." In a sonnet, the volta is the turn of thought or argument: in Petrarchan or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet, and in Shakespearean or English before the final couplet.	22
5435800535	paradox	The term Paradox is from the Greek word "paradoxon" that means contrary to expectations, existing belief or perceived opinion. It is a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth.	23
5435803940	euphony	from the Greek word "euphonos" that means sweet-voiced. It can be defined as the use of words and phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create.	24
5435803941	cacophony	the use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing and unmelodious sounds primarily those of consonants to achieve desired results.	25
5435807177	epithet	a descriptive literary device that describes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are. Also, it is known as a by-name or descriptive title.	26
5435807178	satire	a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends to improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles.	27
5435819557	Gothic	a style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion.	28
5436090389	onomatopoeia	a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting.	29