AP Language Flashcards
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| 7703686930 | carping (adj) | naggingly critical (bleating) | 0 | |
| 7703686931 | Churlish (adj) | having a bad disposition (peevish) | 1 | |
| 7703686932 | Chagrined | embarrassed or humiliated (shamed) | 2 | |
| 7703686933 | Burlesque | involving a moching treatment of a serious matter (sarcasm) | 3 | |
| 7703686934 | Contentious | quarrelsome or argumentative (controversial) | 4 | |
| 7703686935 | Capricious (adj) | erratic and variable (unstable) | 5 | |
| 7703686936 | Climax | arrangement of words in order of increasing importance | 6 | |
| 7703686937 | Hendiadys | expressing a single idea by two nouns instead of a noun and adj. (ex. I do not like the rain and the weather.) | 7 | |
| 7703686938 | Ellipsis | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words (ex. The average person thinks he Is not) | 8 | |
| 7703686939 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses (ex. Perch are inexpensive, cod are cheap, trout is abundance, salmon is best.) | 9 |
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AP Literature Vocab Flashcards
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| 7442424158 | Literal Language | uses words exactly according to their proper meanings or precise definitions. | 0 | |
| 7442424159 | Figurative Language | uses figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful. | 1 | |
| 7442424160 | Tone | an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words, or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject. | 2 | |
| 7442426156 | Mood | mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. | 3 | |
| 7442426157 | Irony | a contrast or incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. This can be a difference between the surface meaning of something that is said and the underlying meaning. | 4 | |
| 7442426158 | Setting | the time and place in which the story takes place. | 5 | |
| 7442426159 | Foreshadowing | a warning or indication of a future event | 6 | |
| 7442428452 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.something representative or symbolic of something else | 7 | |
| 7442428453 | Simile | a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid | 8 | |
| 7442428454 | Trope | recurring theme or thing that appears in a lot of work (rhetorical devices, cliches, etc.) | 9 | |
| 7442431262 | Contrast (noun) | the state of being strikingly different from something else, typically something in juxtaposition or close association. | 10 | |
| 7442431263 | Contrast (verb) | to compare two different things | 11 | |
| 7442431264 | Style | the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text. | 12 | |
| 7442433721 | Point of View/Perspective | the mode of narration that an author employs to let the readers "hear" and "see" what takes place in a story, poem, essay etc. | 13 | |
| 7442436078 | Form | its structure, how it is constructed and organized | 14 | |
| 7442436079 | Content | something that is to be expressed through some medium, as speech, writing, or any of various arts; significance or profundity; meaning | 15 | |
| 7442855560 | Forms of third person perspective | 1) Omnipotent 2) Limited | 16 |
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AP British Literature Flashcards
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| 5924934227 | What is an epic? | Long narrative poem recounting heroic deeds | 0 | |
| 5924934228 | How does Beowulf represent an epic hero? | He performed heroic deeds | 1 | |
| 5924934229 | What is the theme of the poem? | Loyalty | 2 | |
| 5924934230 | What is the purpose of the prologue? | To introduce the characters | 3 | |
| 5924934231 | Theme of the Prologue? | Variety of human nature | 4 | |
| 5924934232 | Define direct and indirect characterization | Direct characterization -the author tells us the characteristics Indirect characterization - the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through speech and actions | 5 | |
| 5924934233 | Which of chanticleers character traits almost lose to his demise? | Pride | 6 | |
| 5924934234 | What is the moral of the nuns priests tale? | Never trust a flatterer | 7 | |
| 5924934235 | What is ironic about the exemplum that is told by the pardoner of the three rioters | The pardoners sold pardons. The pardoner also preaches that money is the root of all evil | 8 | |
| 5924934236 | What is the theme of the pardoners tale? | Greed is the root of all evil | 9 | |
| 5924934237 | Define subjective case | The pronoun is the subject of the sentence | 10 | |
| 5924934238 | Define objective case | The pronoun either receives the action of the verb or as a part of a pre-positional phrase | 11 | |
| 5924934239 | Entreated | To ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something | 12 | |
| 5924934240 | Prodigal | A person who spends money in a reckless way | 13 | |
| 5924934241 | Righteousness | Morally right or justifiable | 14 | |
| 5924934242 | Transgressed | Infringe or go beyond the bounds of a moral principle | 15 | |
| 5924934243 | Stature | A person's natural height | 16 | |
| 5924934244 | Analogies | Comparison between two things typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification | 17 | |
| 5924934245 | Metaphor | Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable | 18 | |
| 5924934246 | Narrative | A speech or written account of connected events | 19 | |
| 5924934247 | Parable | Story in prose or verse which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles | 20 | |
| 5924934248 | Psalm | Sacred song or hymn | 21 | |
| 5924934249 | Sermon | Talk on a moral or religious subject | 22 | |
| 5924934250 | Climax | Point of highest tension or turning point | 23 | |
| 5924934251 | Comic relief | Inclusion of a humorous character seen witty dialogue through to relieve tension | 24 | |
| 5924934252 | Internal conflict | Conflict character has with them self | 25 | |
| 5924934253 | Extertal conflict | Conflict character has with things externally | 26 | |
| 5924934254 | Dramatic irony | Obvious audience but not to character itself | 27 | |
| 5924934255 | Elizabethan drama | Theater of England between 1562 to 1642, plays of Shakespeare etc. | 28 | |
| 5924934256 | Imagery | Painting a picture with words | 29 | |
| 5924934257 | How did The Elizabethan period change represent a change in English drama | Before Elizabeth, drama was religious- about god not about people drama became more about nature and people | 30 | |
| 5924934258 | What is Macbeth's character flaw? | He is hungry for power | 31 | |
| 5924934259 | What would be like if you were watching a play at the globe theater back in Shakespeare's day? | There were barely any props or sets and therefore playwrights used imagery. | 32 | |
| 5924934260 | For what reason did Shakespeare probably choose to write the drama in blank verse? | It made it more realistic | 33 | |
| 5924934261 | Unrhymed iambic pentameter is also called? | Blank verse | 34 | |
| 5924934262 | Macbeths guilt causing him to imagine to see Banquos ghost at the banquet is an example of what type of conflict? | Internal | 35 | |
| 5924934263 | A major purpose of act for is to foreshadow what events? | Apparitions | 36 | |
| 5924934264 | In Elizabeth in theater ______________ was especially important because there were no elaborate special-effects lighting or sets. | Imagery | 37 | |
| 5924934265 | What is the main message of act five scene one which includes Lady McBeth's sleepwalking? | A guilty conscious is not easily mended | 38 | |
| 5924934266 | Why does lady Macbeth kill herself? | She went insane and she was guilty | 39 | |
| 5924934267 | At the end of the play how does Macbeth scourging battle affect the reader? | It brings the reader full-circle returning to his noble character | 40 | |
| 5924934268 | What is the message of holy sonnet 10? | Death be not proud | 41 | |
| 5924934269 | What is the subject of John Donne's song? | Love and death | 42 | |
| 5924934270 | What is the theme of the poem meditation 17? | Mortality we all face the same fate | 43 | |
| 5924934271 | Fortnight | Two weeks | 44 | |
| 5924934272 | Trade | A skilled job | 45 | |
| 5924934273 | A hack chaise | Taxi | 46 | |
| 5924934274 | Entailed | Involves something as a necessary part of a sequence | 47 | |
| 5924934275 | Apothecary | Preparer and seller of medicine | 48 | |
| 5924934276 | Vulgar | Lacking good taste | 49 | |
| 5924934277 | Efficacy | Ability to produce an intended result | 50 | |
| 5924934278 | Panegyric | Public speech published text on something | 51 | |
| 5924934279 | Laudable | Deserving praise | 52 | |
| 5924934280 | Celerity | Swiftness of moving | 53 | |
| 5924934281 | Expostulation | To reason with someone against something that person has done or intended to do | 54 | |
| 5924934283 | Felicity | Intense happiness | 55 | |
| 5924978148 | Augment | To make something greater by adding to it | 56 | |
| 5924978149 | Avouches | Affirm and assert | 57 | |
| 5924978150 | Commission | And instruction command or duty given to a person or group | 58 | |
| 5924978151 | Clamorous | Loud and confused noise | 59 | |
| 5924978152 | Judicious | Having a showing or done with good judgment | 60 | |
| 5924978153 | Reparation | The making of ammends for a wrong one has done by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. | 61 | |
| 5924978154 | Sovereign | A supreme ruler especially a monarch | 62 | |
| 5924978155 | Timorous | Showing or suffering from nervousness fear or lack of confidence | 63 | |
| 5924978156 | Jocund | Cheerful and lighthearted | 64 |
AP Literature Lit Terms #8 Flashcards
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| 8679365912 | Metonomy | Substituting a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it. EX. Pay tribute to the crown; figure of speech in which the word represents something else which it suggests. For example in a herd of fifty cows, the herd might be refereed to as fifty head of cattle. The word "head" is the word representing herd. | 0 | |
| 8679384986 | Microcosm | A small "word" that stands for the larger one: In The Lord of the Flies, the island is representative of the worlds political realm; in One Flew... Cuckoo's Nest, the hospital is representative of totalitarian authority and or technical control. | 1 | |
| 8679396219 | Narritve | A story. | 2 | |
| 8679397225 | Narrative Pacing | The way a story moves: quickly because of piled up conjunctions and long sentences, or slowly, perhaps because of fragments, short sentences, repetition or punctuation. | 3 | |
| 8679428090 | Narrator | Speaker or persona, the one who tells the story. | 4 | |
| 8679431954 | Ode | A long, formal lyrical poem with a serious theme; a form of lyrical poetry using elaborate, sophisticated vocabulary in iambic pentameter. It usually focuses on a single person or object. Ex: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" - the poet is talking to a piece of pottery in a museum. | 5 | |
| 8679477964 | Onomatopeia | The use of the word to represent or to imitate natural sounds. EX: sizzle, buzz, pop, hiss. | 6 | |
| 8679483339 | Oxymoron | Techniques used to produce an effect by a seeming self-contradiction. EX: cruel kindness, make haste slowly. | 7 | |
| 8679489795 | Parable | A short story to prove a point with a moral basis (New Testament stories by Christ) | 8 | |
| 8679493182 | Paradox | A statement which contains seemingly contradictory elements or appears contrary to common sense, yet can be seen as perhaps true when viewed from another angle, such as Alexander Pope's statement that a literary critic would "damn that paint praise" | 9 |
AP Human Geography: Language Flashcards
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| 6979908185 | Dialect | A particular form of a language that is particular to a specific region or social group. |  | 0 |
| 6979908186 | Extinct Language | a language that no longer has any speakers, or that is no longer in current use. |  | 1 |
| 6979908187 | Ideogram | A written character symbolizing the idea of a thing without indicating the sounds used to say it. An Example: 6 (six) |  | 2 |
| 6979908188 | Isogloss | A geographic boundary line delimiting the area in which a given linguistic feature occurs. |  | 3 |
| 6979908189 | Isolated Language | a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages; that is, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language. i.e A language family with only one language. |  | 4 |
| 6979908190 | Language Branch | A Subsection of a Language Family. i.e The Romance "-------" of the Indo-European language family. |  | 5 |
| 6979908191 | Language | The method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way. |  | 6 |
| 6979908192 | Language Group | A Collection of languages within a branch that share a common origin in the relatively recent past and display relatively few differences in grammar and vocabulary. |  | 7 |
| 6979908193 | Language Family | A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history |  | 8 |
| 6979908194 | Indo European language family | Largest language family that includes English and most other languages in the Western Hemisphere. Also used in South and Southwest Asia. |  | 9 |
| 6979908195 | Sino-Tibetan Language Family | 2nd largest language family. Includes Madarin, Thai, Cantonese and Burmese |  | 10 |
| 6979908196 | Lingua Franca | A Language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages |  | 11 |
| 6979908197 | Literary Tradition | A Language that is written as well as spoken | 12 | |
| 6979908198 | Monolingual | The condition of being able to speak only a single language |  | 13 |
| 6979908199 | Bilingual | The ability to speak two languages |  | 14 |
| 6979908200 | Multilingual | The ability to speak multiple languages |  | 15 |
| 6979908201 | Official Language | The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents. |  | 16 |
| 6979908202 | Pidgin Language | A Form of speech that adopts a simplified grammar and limited vocabulary of a lingua franca, used for communications among speakers of two different languages. |  | 17 |
| 6979908203 | Standard Language | The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications. |  | 18 |
| 6979908204 | Trade Language | A language, especially a pidgin, used by speakers of different native languages for communication in commercial trade. |  | 19 |
| 6979908205 | Vernacular | Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. It is usually the language of the common people. | 20 | |
| 6979908206 | Creole | a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage |  | 21 |
| 6979908207 | Denglish | The term is used in all German-speaking countries to refer to the increasingly strong influx of macaronic (slang) English or pseudo-English vocabulary into German. |  | 22 |
| 6979908208 | Franglais | a form of French using many words and idioms borrowed from English. |  | 23 |
| 6979908209 | Ebonics | American black English regarded as a language in its own right rather than as a dialect of standard English |  | 24 |
| 6979908210 | Spanglish | a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English, especially Spanish speech that uses many English words and expressions. |  | 25 |
| 6979908211 | Institutional Language | Professional language (not slang) | 26 | |
| 6979908212 | Developing Language | Language used daily for face-to-face communication, includes a standard written expression, but not used by people all the time | 27 | |
| 6979908213 | Vigorous Language | Language used daily by all ages but doesn't include a written expression | 28 | |
| 6979908214 | Subdialect | Broken down version of dialects, usually very close to each other but may differ in pronunciation of local words. | 29 | |
| 6979908215 | Received Pronunciation | the standard form of British English pronunciation, based on educated speech in southern England. | 30 | |
| 6979908216 | Vulgar Latin | Informal Latin spoken by common folk (farmers, soldiers, etc.) in classical times | 31 |
Ap literature terminology Flashcards
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| 9884084285 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. To shorten a sentence "I came. I saw" | 0 | |
| 9884084286 | Litotes | Employs an understatement by using a double negative "Not bad" = ok " I'm not as young as I used to be " = old | 1 | |
| 9884084287 | euphemism | An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant "Kick the bucket" = death | 2 | |
| 9884084288 | Metonymy | Type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject is substituted for it The crown= king | 3 | |
| 9884084289 | Chiasmus | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed "Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you" | 4 | |
| 9884084290 | Synthesia | The use of one sensory image to describe another " The cold smell of potato mold" " The scent of roses rang" | 5 | |
| 9884084291 | Pathos | Create an emotional response to convince audience " if you don't adopt the puppy he may never find a home" | 6 | |
| 9884084292 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. " every day every night in every way" | 7 | |
| 9884084293 | Antithesis | Direct opposite " you are easy on the eyes but hard on the heart" | 8 | |
| 9884084294 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 9 | |
| 9884084295 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 10 | |
| 9884084296 | situtational irony | something happens that isn't what was expected | 11 | |
| 9884084297 | dramatic irony | when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't | 12 | |
| 9884084298 | verbal irony | A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 13 | |
| 9884084299 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true (silly) " One thing I know is that I know nothing" | 14 | |
| 9884084300 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 15 | |
| 9884084301 | flat character | A character who is not very well developed; has few identifiable characteristics | 16 | |
| 9884084302 | round character | A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work | 17 | |
| 9884084303 | dynamic character | A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action | 18 | |
| 9884084304 | static character | A character that does not change from the beginning of the story to the end | 19 | |
| 9884084305 | stock character | A very recognizable or reoccurring character. Popular character in books | 20 | |
| 9884084306 | foil character | a character who sets off another character by contrast | 21 | |
| 9884084307 | colloquial | characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation (slang) | 22 |
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