AP Language List 13 Flashcards
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| 3860923734 | ephemeral | (adj.) short-lived; fleeting; transitory | 0 | |
| 3860925183 | relegate | (v.) to dismiss to an inferior person | 1 | |
| 3860925184 | disparage | (v.) to speak badly of; to belitte | 2 | |
| 3860925185 | novel | (adj.) new; unusual | 3 | |
| 3860925753 | solemn | (adj.) serious; grave | 4 | |
| 3860926787 | ambivalent | (adj.) feeling undecided | 5 | |
| 3860926788 | reticent | (adj.) reserved; reluctant; hesitant to reveal feelings | 6 | |
| 3860933379 | fervor | (n.) passion; zeal; enthusiasm | 7 | |
| 3860933985 | conciliate | (v.) to soothe; to end a dispute; to reconcile | 8 | |
| 3860935116 | disparity | (n.) inequality; difference | 9 |
AP Literature Flashcards
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| 7364419476 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning | 0 | |
| 7364419477 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds | 1 | |
| 7364423014 | Allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 2 | |
| 7364423196 | Amplification | The art of developing ideas by restating them in a speech | 3 | |
| 7364426366 | Anagram | a word or phrase formed from another word or phrase by changing the order of the letters | 4 | |
| 7364426367 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 5 | |
| 7364428612 | Anastrophe | the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses | 6 | |
| 7364428613 | Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person | 7 | |
| 7364433569 | Anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification) | 8 | |
| 7364433570 | Antithesis | opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction | 9 | |
| 7364436209 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 10 | |
| 7364436210 | Archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing | 11 | |
| 7364439551 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 12 | |
| 7364439552 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 13 | |
| 7364442892 | Authorial Intrusion | when the author steps away from the text to give a message to the reader | 14 |
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AP Literature - Poetry Terms Flashcards
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| 4381758791 | Allegory | Symbolic narrative in which surface details imply secondary meaning. Often takes form of story in which characters represent moral qualities. | 0 | |
| 4381779092 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds (especially at the beginning of words) | 1 | |
| 4381784128 | Anapest | Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one (ex. "com-pre-HEND" or "in-ter-VENE") | 2 | |
| 4381802747 | Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds (ex. "I rose and told him of my woe") | 3 | |
| 4381828262 | Ballad | Narrative poem written in four-line stanzas, characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style. Stories of hardship, love, tragedy, etc are common. | 4 | |
| 4381855375 | Blank Verse | Line of poetry or prose in UNRHYMED iambic pentameter | 5 | |
| 4381875125 | Caesura | Strong pause within a line of verse (ex. "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, / Off-hand-like --just as I-- / Was out of work-had sold his traps -- / No other reason why") | 6 | |
| 4381892516 | Climax | Turning point of action in a plot of play or story. Point of greatest tension in a work. | 7 | |
| 4381898100 | Closed Form | Type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. | 8 | |
| 4381908837 | Connotation | Associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning | 9 | |
| 4381915595 | Convention | Customary feature of a literary work. Defining features of particular literary genres (ex. chorus in Greek tragedies, explicit moral in fables, certain rhyme scheme in villanelles, etc) | 10 | |
| 4381931981 | Couplet | Pair of rhymed lines (usually at end of Shakespeare's sonnets) | 11 | |
| 4381938206 | Dactyl | Stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones (ex. "FLUT-ter-ring" or "BLUE-ber-ry") | 12 | |
| 4381945915 | Denotation | Dictionary meaning | 13 | |
| 4381952197 | Diction | Author's choice of words | 14 | |
| 4381954878 | Elegy | Lyric poem that laments the dead | 15 | |
| 4381956922 | Elision | Omission of unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry | 16 | |
| 4381964687 | Enjambment | Run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next (ex. "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, / Looking as if she were alive. I call / That piece a wonder, now...") | 17 | |
| 4381980328 | Epic | Long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero (ex. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey) | 18 | |
| 4381994110 | Epigram | Brief witty poem, often satirical | 19 | |
| 4382002622 | Flashback | Interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame | 20 | |
| 4382019446 | Foot | Metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables | 21 | |
| 4382029198 | Foreshadowing | Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story | 22 | |
| 4382031610 | Free verse | Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. Not bound by early poetic conventions (common with modern and contemporary poets of 20th/21st century) | 23 | |
| 4382045049 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 24 | |
| 4382047711 | Iamb | An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (ex. "to-DAY") | 25 | |
| 4382052563 | Irony | Contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen | 26 | |
| 4382060692 | Lyric Poem | Type of poem characterized by brevity, compression, and expression of feeling | 27 | |
| 4382064603 | Metaphor | Comparison between essentially unlike things WITHOUT comparative word such as "like" or "as" | 28 | |
| 4382071943 | Meter | Measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poetry | 29 | |
| 4382074749 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea (ex. "We have always remained loyal to the crown" ...crown = king) | 30 | |
| 4388661809 | Narrative Poem | Poem that tells a story | 31 | |
| 4388663279 | Octave | Eight-lined unit, which may constitute a stanza | 32 | |
| 4388710151 | Ode | Long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form. Usually a serious poem on an exalted subject. | 33 | |
| 4388713404 | Onomatopoeia | Use of words to imitate sounds they describe | 34 | |
| 4388722836 | Open Form | Type of structure or form in poetry characterized by freedom from regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, metrical pattern, and overall poetic structure. | 35 | |
| 4388731087 | Parody | Humorous, mocking imitation of a literary work, sometimes sarcastic, but often playful and even respectful in its playful imitation | 36 | |
| 4388735633 | Personification | Endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities | 37 | |
| 4388744221 | Pyrrhic | Metrical foot with two unstressed syllables | 38 | |
| 4388751206 | Quatrain | Four-line stanza in a poem | 39 | |
| 4388754769 | Recognition | Point at which a character understands his or her situation as it really is | 40 | |
| 4388765529 | Reversal | Point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist | 41 | |
| 4388776666 | Rising Meter | Poetic meters such as iambic and anapestic that move or ascend from an unstressed to stressed syllable | 42 | |
| 4388816613 | Satire | Literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies | 43 | |
| 4388819372 | Sestet | Six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem. Last six-lines of an Italian sonnet. | 44 | |
| 4388825351 | Sestina | Poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter. Six-line stanza repeat in an intricate and prescribed order the final word in each of the first six lines. After the sixth stanza, there is a three-line envoi, which uses the six repeating words, two per line. | 45 | |
| 4388834233 | Simile | Figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using "like", "as", or "as though" | 46 | |
| 4388844496 | Sonnet | Fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter. Shakespearean or English is arranged as three quatrains and a couplet (rhyme: abab). Petrarchan or Italian sonnet divides into two parts: eight line octave and six-line sestet (rhyme: abba) | 47 | |
| 4388860472 | Spondee | Metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables | 48 | |
| 4388863615 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech in which a part is substituted for a whole | 49 | |
| 4388867107 | Tercet | Three-line stanza | 50 | |
| 4388875693 | Trochee | Accented syllable followed by an unaccented one | 51 | |
| 4388882257 | Understatement | Writer or speaker says less than what he or she means | 52 | |
| 4388883836 | Villanelle | Nineteen line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition | 53 |
AP Language Lesson One Flashcards
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| 4870301716 | adroit | skillful, clever | 0 | |
| 4870301717 | adulterate | to make impure, to contaminate | 1 | |
| 4870302754 | adventitious | accidental, nonessential | 2 | |
| 4870307185 | aegis | a shield; protection, sponsorship | 3 | |
| 4870308318 | aesthetic | pertaining to beauty | 4 | |
| 4870309386 | affectation | a phony attitude | 5 | |
| 4870309387 | affinity | an attraction to | 6 | |
| 4870310129 | affluence | wealth; well-to-do | 7 | |
| 4870310790 | agape | open-mouthed; surprised; agog | 8 | |
| 4870312145 | aggrandize | to enlarge or to expand | 9 | |
| 4870313251 | altruism | a concern for others; generosity | 10 | |
| 4870315469 | ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation | 11 | |
| 4870316248 | amoral | lacking a sense of right or wrong | 12 | |
| 4870317466 | amorphous | shapeless, formless, vague | 13 | |
| 4870318502 | animosity | hatred | 14 |
AP language Vocab Flashcards
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| 3817283522 | Colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing. -source quizlet Example: The teenager wrote an essay in colloquial manner. | 0 | |
| 3817283523 | Maulin | Overly emotional -source quizlet Example: The mother was very mauling over her last child graduating high school. | 1 | |
| 3817285289 | Opine | To hold or express an opinion. -source quizlet Example: The teacher opined from telling the student's parent how she really felt about the student. | 2 | |
| 3817285290 | Surmise | Suppose that something is true without having evidence to confirm it. -source quizlet Example: The parents surmised that ther child was skipping class ;from the numerous amount of recordings left on the voice-mail machine | 3 | |
| 3817286195 | Terse | Brief and to the point;sparing in the use of words; abrupt. -source google Example: The teenager answered in terse use of words when confronted about skipping class. | 4 | |
| 3817293078 | Succinct | Using few words to state or express an idea. -source Merriam- Webster Example: The parents agreed in a succinct manner when deciding the teenagers punishment. | 5 | |
| 3817293079 | Sycophants | A person who praises powerful people in order to get their approval- source Merriam-Webster Example: The teenager was trying to become sycophants to try to get out of being grounded. | 6 | |
| 3817293080 | Tenet | A belief or principle held to be true-source quizlet Example: But the parents held the tenet of grounding the teenager. | 7 | |
| 3817293912 | Urbane | Polite and confident; fashionable and somewhat formal. -source Merriam-Webster Example: The parents answered the teenager in a urbane manner and told him that he was most certainly grounded. | 8 | |
| 3817295718 | Vapid | Dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking in sharpness, flavor, liveliness, or force. source quizlet Example: The teenager tired of this conversation answered in a vapid manner, so the conversation could be over. | 9 |
Logical Fallacies - AP Language & Composition Flashcards
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| 8249316508 | Bandwagon | Arguments that urge people to follow the same path everyone else is taking. They recommend a course of action b/c everyone else is doing it. |  | 0 |
| 8249316509 | Red Herring | Dodges main issue. Topic A is under discussion; Topic B is introduced under the guise of being relevant to topic A (it really isn't, however) Topic A is abandoned. |  | 1 |
| 8249316510 | Equivocation | Argument that gives a lie an honest appearance; a half truth. Juvenile tricks of language. Bill Clinton's "I never had sex with that woman" - loosely defined sex |  | 2 |
| 8249316511 | Hasty Generalization | Inference drawn from inadequate evidence, and it jumps to conclusions. Forms the basis for most stereotypes about people or institutions: because a few people in a large group are observed and act in a certain way, all members of that group are inferred to act similarly. |  | 3 |
| 8249316512 | Ad Hominem | These arguments are directed at the character of a person rather than at the argument or claim he or she makes. Turns argument into two sides: Good guy vs. Bad guy |  | 4 |
| 8249316513 | Ad Populum | Appeal to the populus; under bandwagon umbrella. Appeal to the popularity of a claim as a reason for accepting it. |  | 5 |
| 8249316514 | Faulty Analogy | The argument that gives an analogy that doesn't hold together; the compared parts are dissimilar. Meant to help reason a circumstance b/c people are more inclined to believe a comparison. |  | 6 |
| 8249316515 | Begging the Question | Assuming as true the very claim that is being disputed - form of circular argument that is divorce from reality. Most basic examples involve rephrasing. Similar to Nonsequitor. |  | 7 |
| 8249316516 | Either/Or Choice Also known as "Hobson's Choice" on the AP test :) | A way to simplify arguments and give them power is to reduce the options for action to only two choices. One option favorable, the other not so much. |  | 8 |
| 8249316517 | The Straw Man | Attacking an argument that is not there; it is much weaker than the point the opponent makes. The speaker is setting up an argument that is easy to knock down, proceeds to do so, and then claims victory over the opponent. |  | 9 |
| 8249316518 | Complex Question | Two-pronged question (combines two questions, one is implied). Involves an implicit argument, which is intended to trap the respondent into acknowledging something that he or she might not otherwise not want to acknowledge. Ex. When did you stop stealing? |  | 10 |
| 8249316519 | Nonsequitor | In this argument, the reasoning does not hold together; it fails to connect logically. One point does not follow from the other. Ex. If my teacher really liked me, he would give me an A. Can be seen as similar to begging the question, mainly because the dots don't really connect. |  | 11 |
| 8249316520 | Slippery Slope | Writer exaggerates the likely consequences of an action, usually to frighten readers (seen as a scare tactic). An argument that portrays today's tiny misstep as tomorrow's slide into disaster. |  | 12 |
| 8249316521 | Faulty Causality | Cause and effect problem; the fallacious assumption that because one event or action follows another, the first necessarily caused the other. Supposed connection between cause and effect turns out to be completely wrong. Ex. For instance, doctors now believe that when an elderly person falls and is found to have a broken hip, it was usually the break that caused the fall (not the other way around). |  | 13 |
biochemistry Flashcards
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| 5978807489 | Amino Acid | Building blocks of protein |  | 0 |
| 5978818567 | Covalent Bond | A chemical bond that involves sharing a pair of electrons between atoms in a molecule |  | 1 |
| 5978820982 | Electron | A subatomic particle that has a negative charge |  | 2 |
| 5978824820 | Hydrogen Bond | A type of weak chemical bond formed when the slightly positive hydrogen atom of a polar covalent bond in one molecule is attracted to the slightly negative atom of a polar covalent bond in another molecule. |  | 3 |
| 5978827980 | Monosaccharide | A single sugar molecule such as glucose or fructose, the simplest type of sugar. |  | 4 |
| 5978832181 | Protein | A three dimensional polymer made of monomers of amino acids. |  | 5 |
| 5978836588 | Valence Electron | Electrons on the outermost energy level of an atom |  | 6 |
| 5978843903 | Atomic Number | The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom |  | 7 |
| 5978851525 | Dehydration Synthesis | A chemical reaction in which two molecules covalently bond to each other with the removal of a water molecule. |  | 8 |
| 5978854926 | fatty acid | Building Blocks of Lipids |  | 9 |
| 5978857403 | lipid | Energy-rich organic compounds, such as fats, oils, and waxes, that are made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. |  | 10 |
| 5978861117 | Polysaccharide | Carbohydrates that are made up of more than two monosaccharides |  | 11 |
| 5978863868 | Neutron | A subatomic particle that has no charge and that is found in the nucleus of an atom |  | 12 |
| 5978867128 | Carbohydrate | Broken down to simple sugars | | 13 |
| 5978871990 | Disaccharide | A double sugar, consisting of two monosaccharides joined by dehydration synthesis. |  | 14 |
| 5978873794 | Glycerol | A three-carbon alcohol to which fatty acids are covalently bonded to make fats and oils. |  | 15 |
| 5978873954 | Macromolecule | A very large organic molecule composed of many smaller molecules |  | 16 |
| 5978876499 | Proton | A subatomic particle that has a positive charge and that is found in the nucleus of an atom |  | 17 |
| 5978878798 | Polypeptide | long chain of amino acids that makes proteins |  | 18 |
AP World history:The Enlightenment Flashcards
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| 6330629519 | The Enlightenment is also known as | the Age of Reason according to George Washington and Thomas Paine | 0 | |
| 6330629520 | The notion of democracy came from | Baron de Montesquieu |  | 1 |
| 6330629521 | The constant testing of observations produced | science, arts, technology, and social contracts | 2 | |
| 6330629522 | Baron de Montesquieu mistakenly | thought that benevolent monarchies had separate judicial and legislative branches of government. However, the idea of an executive, legislative, and judicial form government resonated throughout the era. | 3 | |
| 6330629523 | The rigors of scientific test gave rise | to mathematics, chemistry, and astronomy. | 4 | |
| 6330629524 | One of the greatest technological advances from scientific inquiry was | medicine. | 5 | |
| 6330629525 | Anatomy is the study of | the human body with dissection. | 6 | |
| 6330629526 | Physiology is the study of | the human body. | 7 | |
| 6330629527 | Pathophysiology is the study of | diseases. | 8 | |
| 6330629528 | Thomas Hobbs | believed the nature of human beings is naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish. |  | 9 |
| 6330629529 | Thomas Hobbs believed that people would: | give up their base nature in order to have strong form of government that was unipolar. | 10 | |
| 6330629530 | Thomas Hobbs supported: | the conservative form of autocratic government or absolute monarchy. | 11 | |
| 6330629531 | The downside of Hobbs belief is that he did not believe that | people could govern themselves. | 12 | |
| 6330629532 | Thomas Hobbs wrote: | Leviathan | 13 | |
| 6330629533 | John Locke believed the opposite of Hobb which was | that people are fundamentally reasonable and moral. |  | 14 |
| 6330629534 | John Locke believed that | natural rights belonged to the people from birth | 15 | |
| 6330629535 | The natural rights that John Locke believed in were | right to life, liberty, and possessions | 16 | |
| 6330629536 | Locke believed in what kind of government? | Limited government | 17 | |
| 6330629537 | What made John Locke a radical was | His belief that if the government fails in its obligations to the people and violates the rights of the people, the citizens have the right to overthrow the government. | 18 | |
| 6330629538 | John Locke's main work is | Two Treatises of Government | 19 | |
| 6330629539 | Adam Smith's work is called | Wealth of Nations |  | 20 |
| 6330629540 | Adam Smith believed in three economic laws | 1. The individual will work harder if he has a self-interest in the outcome. 2. Competition will produce a balanced market 3. Supply and demand will be in balance | 21 | |
| 6330629541 | Adam Smith believed in | laissez faire economics. Government should not intervene. | 22 | |
| 6330629542 | Adam Smith did not consider the downside of | monopolies where capitalists do not care for competition, but would purchase it in order to eliminate it. | 23 | |
| 6330629543 | Private property rights play a major role | for Adam Smith | 24 | |
| 6330629544 | There is a continued debate regarding government intervention from Adam Smith's economic theory | Should government social welfare programs address the inequity of Adam Smith. Should the government prevent stratifying of economic classes. | 25 | |
| 6330629545 | The Enlightenment produced secular | universities comprise of the sciences and the arts compared to the seminaries. | 26 | |
| 6330629546 | The textbooks were a departure from religious texts and | produced an increase in literacy during this period that spread ideas from the Enlightenment around the world. | 27 | |
| 6330629547 | The belief of the Enlightenment was by reason alone could change | government, law, and society. | 28 | |
| 6330629548 | Voltaire defended | freedom of thought. |  | 29 |
| 6330629549 | The Enlightenment lasted from roughly | 1650 to 1800 | 30 | |
| 6330629550 | Denis Diderot produced the first | Encyclopedia |  | 31 |
| 6330629551 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | believed that people in their natural state were good but were corrupted by society with a primarily focus on unequal distribution of wealth. |  | 32 |
| 6330629552 | Rousseau work is entitled and contained the fundamental beliefs | The Social Contract. He believed governments should be freely elected. Rousseau was exception to the notion of individualism aside and believed the good of community should placed above the concern of the individual. | 33 | |
| 6330629553 | Government and churches employed the following to prevent Enlightenment thought | censorship | 34 | |
| 6330629554 | Salons back then were | places of discussion of literature, arts, science, and philosophy. | 35 | |
| 6330629555 | Trends in music from this era produced | Ballets and opera. | 36 | |
| 6330629556 | The following musicians were from the Enlightenment | Bach, Handel, Mozart. |  | 37 |
| 6330629557 | George Washington did not stay president after his two terms because | That means he is a monarch |  | 38 |
| 6330629558 | Germaine de Stael | argued that women have been left of the Enlightenment. | 39 | |
| 6330629559 | Art and architecture of the Enlightenment was inspired from the... | Greeks and Romans |  | 40 |
| 6330629560 | In Britain the whigs and tories were... | landed aristocrats | 41 | |
| 6330629561 | Isaac Newton is remembered for five contributions... | 1. Universal gravitation 2. Calculus 3. Optics 4. Newtonian Mechanics 5. Principia - Newtownian Methods | 42 | |
| 6330629562 | Newton discovered the spectrum of... | light. |  | 43 |
| 6330629563 | The Enlightenment involved scientific method... | 1. First ask a question 2. Do background research 3. Construct a hypothesis (idea) 4. Test the research and draw a conclusion (from the idea) 5. Report results True or false for the hypotheses. |  | 44 |
| 6330629564 | The 1707 to 1800 is generally considered... | the era of the Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. | 45 | |
| 6330629565 | The French Revolution was sparked by... | extreme differences in wealth with poverty typical of the era with unequal taxation. | 46 | |
| 6330629566 | Unequal taxation was a concern of the... | American colonies. | 47 | |
| 6330629567 | Constitutional monarchy is known as a British... | form of government in which the king retains his position as head of state, while the authority to tax and make new laws resides in an elected body. | 48 | |
| 6330629568 | Who said "the best weapon against tyranny is the pen"? | Voltair | 49 | |
| 6330629569 | Who's busk is in Jean-Antoine Houdon's Salon? | Voltair | 50 |
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