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AP Language and Composition Terms Flashcards

6519478246	Zeugma	A figure of speech in which a single word, usually a verb, applies to more than one thing	0
6519478247	Trope	Used to express meanings of words differently than their literal meanings ex: hyperbole, metaphor, personification, simile, metonymy, and synecdoche	1
6519478248	Tone	The attitude or emotion of a writer towards their subject or audience	2
6519481392	Parallelism	A similarity in structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	3
6519484310	Satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people	4
6519484311	Rhetorical Question	a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect, to make a point, or to make people think rather than to get an answer	5

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AP Lang Vocabulary List 6 Flashcards

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9094128323	anomaly	Something that's unusual or unexpected.	0
9094128324	capitulate	To surrender, give up.	1
9094128325	charlatan	Someone who pretends to know something in order to trick people; a quack.	2
9094128326	heretic	An iconoclast; someone who goes against accepted beliefs, usually religious ones.	3
9094128327	immutable	Not mutable, not changing; inflexible.	4
9094128328	insipid	Dull, boring, inane.	5
9094128329	intrepid	Brave; fearless.	6
9094128330	lucid	Easy to understand, clear; well-lit.	7
9094128331	mundane	Ordinary.	8
9094128332	obdurate	Refusing to change one's opinion or way of doing something; unfeeling, coldhearted.	9
9094128333	partisan	Showing blind allegiance to a group, especially a political party.	10
9094128334	penury	Extreme poverty.	11
9094128335	surreptitious	Secret, sneaky, clandestine.	12
9094128336	tenacious	Persistent, determined; not easily stopped or pulled apart.	13
9094128337	vindicate	To show that someone is not guilty; to justify.	14

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AP Language 8 Flashcards

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5819960513	Harangue pos	Noun and verb	0
5819960514	Immutable pos	Adj	1
5819960515	Prodigy pos	Noun	2
5819960516	Sully pos	Verb	3
5819960517	Vehement pos	Adj	4
5819960518	Banality pos	Noun	5
5819960519	Conciliatory pos	Adj	6
5819960520	Convergence pos	Noun	7
5819960521	Demonize	Verb	8
5819960522	Embezzle	Verb	9
5819960523	Banality	Cliché	10
5819960524	Conciliatory	To win over or gain goodwill by pleasing	11
5819960525	Convergence	Coming together or intersection	12
5819960526	Demonize	Turn into demon or describe as evil	13
5819960527	Embezzle	Misappropriate or slip money into own account	14
5819960528	Harangue	Ranting speech lecture	15
5819960529	Immutable	Unchangeable	16
5819960530	Prodigy	Highly talented	17
5819960531	Sully	To soil or stain	18
5819960532	Vehement	Emotional, powerful,violent	19

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AP Language Week 1 Words Flashcards

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7309134647	accusatory	indicating or suggesting that one believes a person has done something wrong.	0
7309143177	abstract language	language expressing a quality apart from a specific object or event; opposite of concrete language	1
7309144647	ad hominem	"against the man"; attacking the arguer rather than the argument or issue	2
7309150035	ad populum	"to the people"; playing on the prejudices of the audience	3
7309153520	analogy	a comparison in which a thing is inferred to be similar to another thing in a certain way because it is similar to the thing in other ways	4

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7193738449	ad hominem argument	attacking the person not the arguement	0
7193738450	Either/or fallacy	reducing an argument or issue to two polar opposites and ignoring possible middle ground	1
7193738451	post hoc argument	cites an unrelated event that occured earlier as the cause of a current situation	2
7193738452	Metonymy	use of an aspect of something to represent the whole	3
7193738453	Antithesis	Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas	4
7193738454	authority	A reliable, respected source—someone with knowledge.	5
7193738455	Assertion	An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument	6
7193738456	imperative sentence	A sentence that requests or commands.	7
7193738457	rhetorical modes	patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose	8
7193738458	simple sentence	a sentence containg a subject and a predicate, an ind. clause	9
7193738459	Colloquialism	An informal or conversational use of language.	10
7193738460	cumulative sentence	an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases.	11
7193738461	Polysendeton	the deliberate use of a series of conjunctions	12
7193738462	Syllogism	a form of deductive reasoning conclusion is supported by the major and minor premise	13
7193738463	Understatement	Lack of emphasis in a statement or point.	14
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AP Language & Composition, 9/11 Flashcards

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7360089497	allusion	a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	0
7360093042	anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause	1
7360095065	anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	2
7360097360	antimetabole	repetition of words in reverse order	3
7360098236	chiasmus	a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases	4
7360099895	antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	5
7360103621	Aristotelian Triangle	rhetorical triangle	6
7360105372	asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	7
7360107346	conduplicatio	repetition of one or more words in successive clauses	8
7360108576	diction	a writer's or speaker's choice of words	9
7360109376	epithet	descriptive name	10

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AP World History Chapter 15 Flashcards

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8268737010	Catholic Counter-Reformation	An internal reform of the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century; thanks especially to the work of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), Catholic leaders clarified doctrine, corrected abuses and corruption, and put a new emphasis on education and accountability	0
8268737011	Condorcet and the ideas of progress	The Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was a French philosopher and political scientist who argued that human affairs were moving into an era of near-infinite improbability, with slavery, racism, tyranny, and other human trials swept abay by the triumph of reason	1
8268737012	Nicolaus Copericus	Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543) who was the first to argue for the existence of a heliocentric cosmos	2
8268737013	European Enlightenment	European intellectual movement of the eighteenth century that applied the lessons of the Scientific Revolution to human affairs and was noted for its commitment to open-mindedness and inquiry and the belief that knowledge could transform human society	3
8268737014	Jesuits in China	Series of Jesuit missionaries in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who, inspired by the work of Matteo Ricci, made extraordinary efforts to understand and become a part of Chinese culture in their efforts to convert Chinese elite, although with limited success	4
8268737015	Kaozheng	Literally, "research based on evidence," Chinese intellectual movement whose practitioners emphasized the importance of evidence and analysis, applied especially to historical documents	5
8268737016	Mirabai	One of India's most beloved bhakti poets (1498-1547), she helped break down the barriers of caste and tradition	6
8268737017	Issac Newton	English natural scientist (1643-1727) whose foundation of the laws of motion and mechanics is regarded as the culmination of the Scientific Revolution	7
8268737018	Protestant Reformation	Massive schism within Christianity that had its formal beginning in 1517 with the German priest Martin Luther; while the leaders of the movement claimed that they sought to "reform" a Church that had fallen from biblical practice, in reality the movement was radically innovated in its challenges to Church authority and its endorsement of salvation "by faith alone"	8
8268737019	Sikhism	Religious tradition of northern India founded by Guru Nanak ca.1500; combines elements of Hinduism and Islam and proclaims the brotherhood of all humans and the equality of men and women	9
8268737020	Taki Onqoy	Literally, "dancing sickness;" a religious revivial movement in central Peru in the 1560s whose members preached the imminent destruction of Christianity and of the Europeans in favor of a renewed Andean golden age	10
8268737021	Ursula de Jesus	Slave and later religious Laywoman at the Peruvian Convent of Santa Claus (1606-1666), a lucky escape inspired her to pursue a pious life of mortification and good works gaining a reputation as a women of extraordinary devotion and humility as well as a visionary and mystic	11
8268737022	Voltaire	Pen name of the French Philosopher Francois-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), whose work is often taken as a model of enlightenment questioning on traditional values and attitudes; noted for his dream and his criticism of traditional religion	12
8268737023	Wahhabi Islam	Major Islamic movement led by Muslim theologian Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792) that advocated as austere lifestyle and strict adherence to Islamic law	13
8268737024	Bhakti	Hindu devotional movement that flourished in the early modern era, emphasizing music, dance, poetry, and rituals as means by which to achieve direct union with the divine	14
8268737025	Council of Trent	The main instrument of the Catholic Counter-Reformation (1545-1563), at which the Catholic Church clarified doctrine and corrected abuses	15
8268737026	Charles Darwin	Highly influential English biologist (1809-1882) whose theory of natural selection continues to be seen as a threat to revealed religious truth	16
8268737027	Desim	Belief in a divine being who created the cosmos but who does not intervene directly to human affairs	17
8268737028	Edict of Nantes	1598 edict issued by French king Henry IV that granted considerable religious toleration to French Protestants and ended the French Wars on Religion	18
8268737029	Sigmund Freud	Austrian doctor and the father of modern psychoanalysis (1856-1939); his theories about the operation of the human mind and emotions remain influential today	19
8268737030	Galileo Galilei	Italian astronomer (1564-1642) who further developed the ideas of Copernicus and whose work was eventually suppressed by the Catholic Church	20
8268737031	Huacas	Local gods of the Andes	21
8268737032	Huguenots	The Protestant minority in France	22
8268737033	Martin Luther	German priest and theologian (1483-1546) who inaugurated the Protestant Reformation movement in Europe	23
8268737034	Guru Nanak	Founder of Sikhism (1469-1539)	24
8268737035	Ninety-five Theses	List of ninety-five debating points about the abuses of the Church, posted by Martin Luther on the door of a church in Wittenberg in 1517; the Church's strong reaction eventually drove Luther to separate from Catholic Christianity	25
8268737036	Matteo Ricci	The most famous Jesuit missionary in China in the early modern period; active in China from 1582 to 1610	26
8268737037	Scientific Revolution	Great European intellectual and cultural transformation that was based on the principles of the scientific method	27
8268737038	Society of Jesus	Also called "Jesuits," this Catholic religious society was founded to encourage the renewal of Catholicism through education and preaching; it soon became a leading Catholic missionary order beyond the borders of Europe	28
8268737039	Thirty Years' War	Highly destructive war (1618-1648) that eventually included most of Europe; fought for the most part between Protestants and Catholics, the conflict ended with Peace of Westphalia (1648)	29
8268737040	Wang Yangmin	Prominent Chinese philosopher (1472-1529) who argued that it was possible to achieve a virtuous life by introspection, without the extensive education of traditional Confucianism	30