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AP Literature Poetic Devices: List One Flashcards

8401590422	Alliteration	same consonant at the beginning of each word	0
8401600222	Assonance	repetition of similar vowel sounds in successive words	1
8401611947	Consonance	the recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants	2
8401653723	Cacophony	loud confusing disagreeable sounds	3
8401659595	Euphony	pleasing and harmonious sounds	4
8401683337	Onomatopoeia	using words that imitate the sound they denote	5
8401700034	Rhyme	correspondence of the final sounds of two or more lines	6
8401716992	Repetition	literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times	7
8401751750	Rhythm	strong, regular, repeated pattern of sound.	8
8401774448	Scansion	analysis of verse into metrical patterns	9
8401781032	Allegory	a short moral story written on two levels	10
8401788222	Allusion	reference	11
8401795292	Ambiguity	having one or more meanings	12
8401799574	Analogy	a comparison to show similarity	13
8401812923	Apostrophe	a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem.	14
8401842428	Cliche	a trite or obvious remark	15
8401847000	Connotation	an idea implied or suggested by the use of a certain word	16
8401863294	Denotation	Dictionary meaning of a word	17
8401866331	Euphemism	an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one	18
8401876003	Hyperbole	Extreme exaggeration	19
8401881465	Irony	incongruity between what is expected and what occurs	20
8401889813	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	21
8401907316	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	22
8401915410	Oxymoron	Conjoining contradictory terms	23
8401934399	Personification	attributing human characteristics to abstract idea	24
8401953310	Pun	humorous play on words	25
8401957536	Simile	comparison using like or as	26
8401963083	Symbol	One thing that suggests or stand for something else	27
8401987047	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	28
8402008048	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines, clauses, or phrases.	29

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AP French Language and Culture: La Famille Flashcards

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5700119154	la famille	the family	0
5700119155	le père	the father	1
5700119156	la mère	the mother	2
5700119157	les parents	the parents, relatives	3
5700119158	la soeur	the sister	4
5700119159	le frère	the brother	5
5700119160	les enfants	the children	6
5700119161	le bébé	the baby	7
5700119162	le fils	the son	8
5700119163	la fille	the daughter, girl	9
5700119164	le mari	the husband	10
5700119165	l'époux	the husband (spouse)	11
5700119166	la femme	the wife, woman	12
5700119167	l'épouse	the wife, spouse	13
5700119168	la grand-mère	the grandmother	14
5700119169	le grand-père	the grandfather	15
5700119170	le petit-fils	the grandson	16
5700119171	la petite-fille	the grandaughter	17
5700119172	les ancêtres	the ancestors	18
5700119173	l'oncle	the uncle	19
5700119174	la tante	the aunt	20
5700119175	le neveu	the nephew	21
5700119176	la nièce	the niece	22
5700119177	le (la) cousin(e)	the cousin (m/f)	23
5700119178	le beau-père	the father-in-law/stepfather	24
5700119179	la belle-mère	the mother-in-law/stepmother	25
5700119180	le beau-frère	the brother-in-law/stepbrother	26
5700119181	la belle-soeur	the sister-in-law/stepsister	27
5700119182	le demi-frère	the half brother	28
5700119183	la demi-soeur	the half sister	29
5700119184	le beau-fils	the son-in-law	30
5700119185	la belle-fille	the daughter-in-law	31
5700119186	le parrain	the godfather	32
5700119187	la marraine	the godmother	33
5700119188	le filleul	the godson	34
5700119189	la filleule	the goddaughter	35
5700119190	les rapports/les relations	the relationships	36
5700119191	la retraite	the retirement	37
5700119192	le divorce	the divorce	38
5700119193	le mariage	the marriage	39
5700119194	l'union libre/la cohabitation	the living together/unmarried cohabitation	40
5700119195	le mariage civil	the civil ceremony	41
5700119196	la mairie	the city hall	42
5700119197	le/la partenaire	the partner	43
5700119198	le père célibataire	the single father	44
5700119199	la mère célibataire	the single mother	45
5700119200	la famille monoparentale	the single parent family	46
5700119201	la famille étendue	the extended family	47
5700119202	la femme au foyer	the stay at home mom	48
5700119203	la famille nucléaire	the immediate family	49
5700119204	la famille recomposée	the remarried family	50
5700119205	le baptême	the christening	51
5700119206	les fiançailles	the engagement	52
5700119207	le mariage	the marriage celebration	53
5700119208	le machisme	the male chauvinism	54
5700119209	un veuf	a widower	55
5700119210	une veuve	a widow	56
5700119211	la démographie	the demographics	57
5700119212	l'enfance	the childhood	58
5700119213	la jeunesse	the youth	59
5700119214	la vieillesse/le troisième âge	the old age	60
5700119215	le jeune/l'ado	the teenager	61
5700119216	gamin(e)/gosse/môme	the kid (slang)	62
5700119217	le gars	the boy (Canadian/archaic)	63
5700119218	le conflit des générations	the generation gap	64
5700119219	marié	married	65
5700119220	divorcé(e)	divorced	66
5700119221	célibataire	single	67
5700119222	amoureux/seuse	in love	68
5700119224	embêtant/agaçant	annoying	69
5700119225	clandestinement	secretly	70
5700119226	enceinte	pregnant	71
5700119227	infidèle	unfaithful	72
5700119228	fidèle	faithful	73
5700119229	se marier avec	to get married with	74
5700119230	épouser	to marry	75
5700119231	se disputer	to argue	76
5700119232	contredire	to contradict	77
5700119233	traiter	to treat	78
5700119234	maltraiter	to mistreat	79
5700119235	avoir confiance en	to have confidence in	80
5700119236	se méfier de	to mistrust	81
5700119237	conseiller	to advise	82
5700119238	convaincre	to convince	83
5700119239	avoir raison	to be right	84
5700119240	avoir tort	to be wrong	85
5700119241	tutoyer	to use (familiar)	86
5700119242	vouvoyer	to use (formal)	87
5700119243	grandir	to grow up	88
5700119244	vieillir	to age	89
5700119245	s'entendre bien avec	to get along with well	90
5700119246	s'entendre mal avec	to get along with badly	91
5700119247	être indépendant	to be independent	92
5700119248	dépendre de quelqu'un	to depend on someone	93
5700119249	se comporter	to behave	94
5700119250	divorcer	to divorce	95
5700119251	quitter quelqu'un	to leave someone	96
5700119252	laisser tomber	to drop/leave	97
5700119253	adopter	to adopt	98
5700119254	être fiancé/se fiancer	to get engaged	99
5700119255	tomber/être amoureux	to fall in love	100
5700119256	cohabiter	to live together	101
5700119257	s'adapter à	to get adapted to	102
5700119258	s'habituer à	to get used to	103
5700119259	en vouloir à	to hold a grudge	104
5700119260	rompre avec	to break up	105
5700119261	se séparer de	to get separated	106
5700119262	manquer à	to be missed by someone	107
5700119263	tromper quelqu'un	to be unfaithful to someone	108
5700119264	se rapprocher	to reconcile	109
5700119265	se saigner aux quatre veines	to sacrifice a lot	110
5700119266	énerver	to annoy	111
5700119267	embêter/agacer	to annoy, irritate	112

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AP Literature Terms V Flashcards

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6719073265	refrain	a line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem	0
6719074528	requiem	a song or prayer for the dead	1
6719074529	rhapsody	an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise	2
6719075694	rhetorical question	a question that suggests an answer and/or doesn't require an out-loud answer	3
6719077803	satire	exposes common character flaws to humor; attempts to improve things by pointing out people's mistakes in the hope that once exposed, such behaviours will become less common--hypocrisy, vanity, greed	4
6719078757	simile	a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"	5
6719081844	soliloquy	a speech spoken by a character alone on stage; meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character's thoughts (usually a problem the character is trying to work out)	6
6719084040	stanza	a group of lines roughly analogous in function in verse to the paragraph's function in prose	7
6719085723	stock characters	standard or cliched character types: the drunk, the miser, the foolish girl, etc.	8
6719088709	subjunctive mood	a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible; wishful thinking--if I were you, if he were honest	9
6719089611	summary	a simple retelling of what you've just read; covers more material than paraphrase, more general, includes all the facts	10
6719091145	suspension of disbelief	demand made of a theater audience to accept the limitations of staging and supply the details with imagination	11
6719091925	symbolism	a device in literature where an object represents an idea	12
6719093160	technique	the methods, the tools, "how-you-do-it" ways of the author	13
6719094078	theme	the main idea of the overall work; the central idea; topic of discourse or discussion	14
6719094079	thesis	the main position of an argument; the central contention that will be supported	15
6719096139	tragic flaw	in tragedy, weakness of character in an other wise good/great individual that leads to his demise	16
6719097168	utopia	an idealized place; paradise	17
6719098841	zeugma	the use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings--On the fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.	18

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AP Human Geography: Chapter 5 - Language Flashcards

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7955764263	Creole (or creolized) language	A language that results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated.	0
7955764264	Dialect	A regional variety of a language distinguished by vocabulary, spelling, and pronunciation.	1
7955764265	Extinct language	A language that was once use by people in daily activities but is no longer used.	2
7955764266	Isogloss	A boundary that separates regions in which different language usages predominate.	3
7955764267	Isolated language	A language that is unrelated to any other languages and therefore not attached to any language family.	4
7955764268	Language	A system of communication through the use of speech, a collection of sounds understood by a group of people to have the same meaning.	5
7955764269	Language branch	A collection of languages related through a common ancestor that existed several thousand years ago. Differences are not as extensive or old as with language families, and archaeological evidence can confirm that these derived from the same family.	6
7955764270	Language family	A collection of languages related to each other through a common ancestor long before recorded history.	7
7955764271	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.	8
7955764272	Lingua franca	A language mutually understood and commonly used in trade by people who have different native languages.	9
7955764273	Literary tradition	A language that is written as well as spoken.	10
7955764274	Official language	The language adopted for use by the government for the conduct of business and publication of documents.	11
7955764275	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.	12
7955764276	Standard language	The form of a language used for official government business, education, and mass communications.	13
7955764277	Denglish	A combination of Deutsch (the German word for German) and English).	14
7955764278	Developing language	A language spoken in daily use with a literary tradition that is not widely distributed.	15
7955764279	Ebonics	A dialect spoken by some African Americans.	16
7955764280	Franglais	A combination of francais and anglais (the French words for French and English respectively).	17
7955764281	Institutional language	A language used in education, work, mass media, and government.	18
7955764282	Logogram	A symbol that represents a word rather than a sound.	19
7955764283	Received Pronunciation (RP)	The dialect of English associated with upper-class Britons living in London and now considered standard in the United Kingdom.	20
7955764284	Spanglish	A combination of Spanish and English spoken by Hispanic Americans.	21
7955764285	Subdialect	A subdivision of a dialect.	22
7955764286	Vigorous language	A language spoken in daily use but that lacks a literary tradition.	23
7955764287	Vulgar Latin	A form of Latin used in daily conversation by ancient Romans, as opposed to the standard dialect, which was used for official documents.	24

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AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

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7110044303	Abstract	existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.	0
7110044304	Adage	A proverb, wise saying	1
7110045718	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	2
7110045719	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	3
7110046090	Allusion	an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly	4
7110046091	Ambiguity	An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way.	5
7110046833	Anachronism	something out of place in time	6
7110046834	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.	7
7110046835	Annotation	(n.) a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work	8
7110049238	Antagonist	A character or force in conflict with the main character	9
7110049239	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	10
7110049808	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	11
7110049809	Apostrophe	addressing someone or thing, most probably dead, within a speech or poem	12
7110050152	Archetype	Prototypical story lines which most stories follow; kind of a skeleton for the body that is a novel	13
7110050746	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	14
7110050747	Ballad	a songlike narrative about an adventure or a romance	15
7110050748	Bard	A poet; in olden times, a performer who told heroic stories to musical accompaniment.	16
7110051429	Bibliography	A document showing all the sources used to research information.	17
7110051430	Blank verse	verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.	18
7110051835	Burlesque	A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation.	19
7110051836	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line.	20
7110052236	Canon	an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature	21
7110052237	Caricature	A grotesque or exaggerated likeness of striking qualities in persons and things.	22
7110052737	Carpe diem	Literally, "seize the day"; enjoy life while you can, a common theme in literature	23
7110052738	Catharsis	the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.	24
7110053805	Classical	An age marked by great achievements, 1750-1830	25
7110053806	Climax	Most exciting moment of the story; turning point	26
7110054784	coming-of-age story	an adolescent central character moves from childhood to adulthood	27
7110054785	Conceit	A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	28
7110055186	Connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	29
7110055187	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	30
7110055188	Couplet	A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.	31
7110055459	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	32
7110055932	Denouement	an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot	33
7110055933	Diction	the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.	34
7110055934	Dramatic Irony	the contrast between what a character expects and what the audience knows is true	35
7110055935	Elegy	a sorrowful poem or speech	36
7110056628	Ellipsis	in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods	37
7110057217	Elliptical Construction	A sentence containing a deliberate omission of words.	38
7110057218	Empathy	Identification with and understanding of another's situation, feelings, and motives	39
7110057219	End-Stopped	When the end of a line in poetry has a pause noted with some kind of punctuation	40
7110057790	Enjambment	In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them	41
7110057791	Epic	A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds	42
7110057792	Epigram	A concise but ingenious, witty, and thoughtful statement.	43
7110058130	Euphony	pleasant, harmonious sound	44
7110058131	Epithet	A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something	45
7110058132	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	46
7110058415	Expose	to put something out for others to see	47
7110058416	Exposition	a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.	48
7110058417	Explication	the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text	49
7110059517	Extended metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	50
7110059518	Fable	A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters	51
7110059519	Falling action	Events after the climax, leading to the resolution	52
7110059918	Fantasy	A highly imaginative type of fiction in which the events could not really happen.	53
7110059919	Farce	broad comedy; mockery; humorous play full of silly things happening; ADJ. farcical	54
7110060285	Figure of speech	A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things.	55
7110060286	First-person	The story is told by one of the characters in his/her own words	56
7110060673	Flashback	present action is temporarily interrupted so that past events can be described	57
7110060674	Foil	A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story.	58
7110060675	Foot	A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.	59
7110060676	Foreshadowing	the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot	60
7110061306	Frame	A structure that provides a premise or setting for a narrative or other discourse.	61
7110061307	Free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	62
7110061308	Genre	a major category or type of literature	63
7110061754	Gothic novel	a suspenseful story that usually features a gloomy setting and supernatural occurrences	64
7110061755	Harangue	A long, strongly expressed speech or lecture	65
7110062209	Heroic couplet	Iambic pentameter lines rhymed in pairs.	66
7110062210	Hubris	excessive pride or self-confidence	67
7110062211	Humanism	A belief that emphasizes faith and optimism in human potential and creativity	68
7110062821	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	69
7110062822	Idyll	Story or incident in peaceful or ideal setting	70
7110062823	Image	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	71
7110063159	Indirect quotation	actual words are not stated but only approximated or paraphrased	72
7110063160	Irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	73
7110063161	Kenning	a device in which the name of a thing is replaced by one of its functions or qualities a compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning	74
7110063551	Lampoon	a written satire used to ridicule or attack someone	75
7110063552	Light verse	A variety of poetry meant to entertain or amuse, but sometimes with a satirical thrust	76
7110064104	Litotes	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	77
7110064105	Loose sentence	A complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows	78
7110064106	Lyric poetry	A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings	79
7110064880	Maxim	A general truth or fundamental principle, esp. expressed as a proverb or saying	80
7110064881	Melodrama	genre of musical theater that combined spoken dialogue with background music	81
7110064882	Metaphor	A comparison that establishes a figurative identity between objects being compared.	82
7110065284	Metaphysical poetry	intricate 17th century English poetry employing wit and unexpected images Poetry that rejects worldly value systems (status categories, institutional authority)	83
7110065285	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	84
7110065286	Metonym	Substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	85
7110065287	Middle English	The language spoken in England roughly between 1150 and 1500 A.D.	86
7110065732	Mock epic	A parody of traditional epic form.	87
7110065733	Mode	a way or method of doing something; type, manner, fashion	88
7110065734	Montage	any combination of disparate elements that form a unified, single image	89
7110065735	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	90
7110066125	Moral	A brief and often simplistic lesson that a reader may infer from a work of literature.	91
7110066126	Motif	a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition	92
7110066127	Muse	(v.) to think about in a dreamy way, ponder	93
7110066128	Myth	a fictional tale that explains the actions of gods or the causes of natural phenomena	94
7110066933	Narrative	The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.	95
7110066934	Naturalism	a style and theory of representation based on the accurate depiction of detail.	96
7110066935	Novella	a fiction work that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel	97
7110066936	Ode	a lyric poem that expresses strong emotions about life	98
7110067621	Old English	Anglo-Saxon, earliest form of English Language, 5th-7th century	99

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AP Spanish Literature (Abriendo Puertas) Autores y obras Flashcards

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9061207766	Don Juan Manuel	El conde Lucanor: Ejemplo XXXV:<>	0
9061207767	Garcilaso de la Vega	Soneto XXIII <>	1
9061207768	Luis de Argote y Góngora	Soneto CLXVI <>	2
9061207769	Francisco de Quevedo	Salmo XVII <>	3
9061207770	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	Sátira filosófica <>	4
9061207771	Hernán Cortés	<>	5
9061207772	Anómino	La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades	6
9061207773	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha	7
9061207774	Tirso de Molina, Gabriel Téllez	El burlador de Sevilla y convivado de piedra	8
9061207775	José María Heredia	<>	9
9061207776	Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer	Rima LIII "Volverán las oscuras golondrinas"	10
9061207777	Emilia Pardo Bazán	<>	11
9061207778	Horacio Quiroga	<>	12
9061207779	José Martí	<>	13
9061207780	Rubén Darío	Cantos de vida y esperanza, VIII <>	14
9061207781	Miguel de Unamuno	San Manuel Bueno, mártir	15
9061207782	Antonio Machado	Soledades II, <>	16
9061207783	Nicolás Guillén	<>	17
9061207784	Pablo Neruda	Residencia en la tierra II, <>	18
9061207785	Federico García Lorca	Romancero gitano, <> y <>	19
9061207786	Juan Rulfo	<>	20
9061207787	Jorge Luis Borges	<>; <>	21
9061207788	Julio Cortázar	<>	22
9061207789	Gabriel García Márquez	<>; <>	23
9061207790	Carlos Fuentes	<>	24
9061207791	Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Diego Muñoz Camargo y un poeta nahua anónimo	Voces indígenas (fragmentos); De las señales y pronósticos, Prodigios, Cantares	25
9061207792	Anónimo	<>	26
9061207793	Alfonsina Storni	<>	27
9061207794	Federico García Lorca	La casa de Bernarda Alba	28
9061207795	Julia de Burgos	<>	29
9061207796	Osvaldo Dragún	Historias para ser contadas, <>	30
9061207797	Sabine R. Ulibarrí	<>	31
9061207798	Tomás Rivera	...y no se lo tragó la tierra (fragmentos); <>	32
9061207799	Nancy Morejón	<>	33
9061207800	Isabel Allende	<>	34
9061207801	Rosa Montero	<>	35

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AP Psychology - Language and Cognition Flashcards

Advanced Placement Psychology
Enterprise High School, Redding, CA
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6145273766	cognition	all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.	0
6145273767	concept	a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people.	1
6145273768	prototype	a mental image or best example of a category.	2
6145273769	algorithm	a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier—but also more error-prone—use of heuristics.	3
6145273770	heuristic	a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms.	4
6145273771	insight	a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions.	5
6145273772	behaviorist theory	the theory of language development that argues humans learn language through trial/error and gradually learn more effective ways to speak to get what they want	6
6145273773	confirmation bias	a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.	7
6145273774	fixation	the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set.	8
6145273775	mental set	a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past.	9
6145273776	functional fixedness	the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving.	10
6145273777	representativeness heuristic	judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead us to ignore other relevant information.	11
6145273778	availability heuristic	estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common.	12
6145273779	nativist theory	the theory of language development that states that humans have a natural, innate ability to develop language (theorized by Chomsky)	13
6145273780	belief perseverance	clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited.	14
6145273781	Language Acquisition Device	this structure allows for the innate development of language (theorized by Chomsky)	15
6145273782	framing	the way an issue is posed; how an issue is framed can significantly affect decisions and judgments.	16
6145273783	language	our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning.	17
6145273784	phoneme	in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit.	18
6145273785	morpheme	in a language, the smallest unit that carries meaning; may be a word or a part of a word (such as a prefix).	19
6145273786	grammar	in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others.	20
6145273787	semantics	the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also, the study of meaning.	21
6145273788	syntax	the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.	22
6145273789	babbling stage	babies spontaneously uttering a variety of words, such as ah-goo	23
6145273790	one-word stage	the stage in which children speak mainly in single words	24
6145273791	two-word stage	they start uttering two word sentences	25
6145273792	telegraphic speech	early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs.	26
6145273793	linguistic determinism	Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think.	27

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Drama terms for AP Literature Flashcards

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7136719904	Nemesis	an opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome or Just punishment; retribution.	0
7136719905	Hubris	Pride that challenges the role of the gods	1
7136719906	Catharsis	An emotional discharge that brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety	2
7136719907	Tragic flaw	A character trait that leads to the downfall of a hero, while also (often) making him admirable	3
7136719908	Anagnorisis	Recognition of truth about one's self and his actions; moment of clarity	4
7136719909	Buffoon	stupid person; clown	5
7136719910	Comedy	A literary work which ends happily because the hero or heroine is able to overcome obstacles and get what he or she wants.	6
7136719911	Tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	7
7136719912	Romance	an extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places	8
7136719913	Farce	(n.) a play filled with ridiculous or absurd happenings; broad or far-fetched humor; a ridiculous sham	9
7136719914	Burlesque	a ludicrous, mocking, lewd imitation	10
7136719915	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	11
7136719916	Foible	a minor character flaw	12
7136719917	Parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	13
7136719918	Invective	abusive language	14
7136719919	Inuendo	a hint, indirect suggestion or reference, often in a derogatory sense	15
7136719920	Slapstick	a boisterous comedy with chases and collisions and practical jokes	16
7136719921	Physical Comedy	Slap Stick	17
7136719922	Malapropism	a word humorously misused	18
7136719923	Pun	A play on words	19
7136719924	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	20
7136719925	Situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	21
7136719926	Verbal Irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	22
7136719927	Dramatic Irony	Irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.	23
7136719928	Sarcasm	A mocking, often ironic or satirical remark.	24
7136719929	Aside	A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play	25
7136719930	Monologue	A long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group.	26
7136719931	Soliloquy	A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage	27
7136719932	Stage directions	an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.	28
7136719933	Set	Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted	29
7136719934	Absurd	preposterous	30
7136719935	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	31
7136719936	Hyperbole	An exaggeration	32
7136719937	Pratfall	a fall made on purpose	33
7136719938	Anecdote	A short and amusing or interesting story	34
7136719939	Black Comedy	Disturbing or absurd material presented in a humorous manner, usually with the intention of confronting uncomfortable truths	35
7136719940	Epiphany	A moment of sudden revelation or insight	36