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AP Language & Composition Exam Flashcards

Vocab, tone, rhetorical terms.

4406687535	acerbic	bitter, sharp in taste or temper	0
4406687866	strident	loud and harsh	1
4406688141	ambivalence	conflicting feelings; uncertainty	2
4406688760	conciliatory	making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill	3
4406689198	irate	very angry	4
4406689199	judicious	sensible; showing good judgement	5
4406690110	self-deprecating	belittling oneself; excessively modest	6
4406691283	capricious	impulsive and unpredictable	7
4406695234	feigned	pretended	8
4406695464	poignant	emotionally moving	9
4406695703	reverent	respectful	10
4406697326	indifference	apathy; lack of feeling	11
4406698487	disdain	intense dislike	12
4406698836	facetious	humorous	13
4406699221	flippant	disrespectful	14
4406700090	pedantic	boringly scholarly or academic	15
4406700763	petty	unimportant	16
4406700764	benevolent	kind	17
4406701212	effusive	gushing; demonstrative	18
4406702117	elegiac	sorrow	19
4406702453	detached	disinterested, unconcerned, distant	20
4406704257	aloof	distant	21
4406704625	didactic	instructive, educational	22
4406709652	allegory	a story in which the people, places, and things represent general concepts or moral qualities	23
4406710668	allusion	a brief reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature	24
4406711540	anticlimax	a sudden drop from important thought, for humorous effect	25
4406712753	argumentation	exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it; persuasion through reason	26
4406714586	irony	a humorous expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the opposite of their usual meaning	27
4406715863	inverted syntax	basically Yoda	28
4406716668	treatise	manifesto	29
4406717091	parable	a short story with a moral lesson	30
4406717378	paradox	a statement which seems self-contradictory, but may be true in fact	31
4406719804	syllogism	a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them	32

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AP Literature-Terms #1 Flashcards

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7264319017	Allusion	indirect reference	0
7264319790	Apostrophe	direct reference	1
7264321091	Conflict	struggle between 2 opposing forces	2
7264323125	Diction	word choice	3
7264324333	Fiction	"fiction=fake", literature created from the imagination	4
7264328535	Foreshadowing	hint of what is to come	5
7264329859	Genre	category of literary composition	6
7264331130	Imagery	Visual-sight Olfactory-smell Tactile-touch Auditory-hear Gustatory-taste	7
7264336437	Verbal-Irony	spoken irony	8
7264338472	Situational-Irony	outcome is different than expected	9
7264339544	Dramatic-Irony	audience knows something that the characters don't	10
7264342648	Motif vs. Symbol	reoccuring symbol vs. representation that appears once	11
7264346645	Paradox vs. Oxymoron	Paradox-can be a sentence Oxymoron-2 word contradiction Both-self-contradictory statements	12
7264351103	Plot	introduction, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution	13
7264354385	Setting	time/place	14
7264355540	Syntax	sentence structure	15
7264356800	Theme	unifying motif	16

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AP World History Periods, Themes and Thinking Skills Flashcards

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6798390041	Period 1	Historical Period: 8000-600 BCE Technological and Environmental Transformations	0
6798390042	Period 2	Historical Period: 600 BCE-600 CE Organization and Reorganization	1
6798390043	Period 3	Historical Period: 600-1450 Regional and Interregional Interactions	2
6798390044	Period 4	Historical Period: 1450-1750 Global Interactions	3
6798390045	Period 5	Historical Period: 1750-1900 Industrialization and Global Integration	4
6798390046	Period 6	Historical Period: 1900-Present Accelerating Global Change and Realignments	5
6798390052	Analyzing Evidence	Historical Thinking Skill: Explain the authors point of view, who it is going to, relevance, format, and historical content to explain the primary source. *S.O.A.P: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, purpose. Evaluate usefulness, reliability, or limitations of a primary source	6
6798390053	Interpretation	Historical Thinking Skill: Analyze the argument, explain how it was supported through evidence, and evaluate the effectiveness. Analyze the diverse historical interpretations.	7
6798390054	Comparison	Historical Thinking Skill: Compare the diverse perspectives in the primary and secondary sources in order to draw conclusions about 1 or more events. Compare different historical individuals, events, developments, or processes to draw a conclusion	8
6798390055	Contextualization	Historical Thinking Skill: Situates historical events, developments, or processes within the broader context in which they occurred to draw conclusions for their significance	9
6798390056	Synthesis	Historical Thinking Skill: Connect a given historical issue to a relative development in a different historical context, geographical area, period or era. Connect different course themes and approaches to history for a given issue. Use insights from a different discipline to better understand a given issue.	10
6798390057	Causation	Historical Thinking Skill: Explain the effects of a historical event, development or process. Evaluate the relative significance of different causes/effects on historical events of processes.	11
6798390058	Continuity and Change Over Time	Historical Thinking Skill: Identify the patterns of CCOT and explain the significance. Explain how patterns of CCOT relate to larger historical processes or themes.	12
6798390059	Periodization	Historical Thinking Skill: Explain ways historical events and processes can be organized into discrete, different, and definable historical periods. Evaluate whether a particular event or date could or could not be a turning point between different, definable historical periods, used in particular historical evidence.	13
6798390060	Argumentation	Historical Thinking Skill: Articulate a defensible claim in the form of a clear and compelling thesis that relative importance of multiple factors and sees a diverse number of perspectives. Use specific historical evidence, and support the argument with the application of a specific historical thinking skill. Evaluate the evidence and explain its relevance to a claim or thesis, giving a clear link to the evidence and the argument. Relate the historical evidence in a cohesive way to develop an argument.	14

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Rhetoric Vocab AP Language Flashcards

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3075087497	Allusion	a phrase to bring something to mind without directly mentioning it; and indirect reference	0
3075090591	Amplification	enlarge upon or add detail	1
3075092147	Anadiplosis	the repetition of a word in consecutive clauses where the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause	2
3075098921	Analogy	a comparison between two different things, for the purpose of clarification	3
3075105955	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	4
3075110987	Antanagoge	to place criticism and compliment together to lessen the impact	5
3075118497	Antithesis	a contrast between two things; a figure of speech in which a contrast of ideas is shown through parallelism of words that are opposites	6
3075124506	Aporia	the expression of doubt	7
3075132220	Apostrophe	addressing some personification that is not physically there	8
3075136989	Asyndeton	the absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence	9
3075138643	Chiasmus	words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or modified form	10
3075145450	Climax	a sequence of ideas in order of increasing importance	11
3075147751	Conduplicatio	repeats a key word from a preceding phrase or clause at the beginning of the next	12
3075160287	Distinctio	explicit references to the various meanings of words	13
3075162607	Enumeratio	detailing parts, causes, effects, or consequences to make a point more forcibly	14
3075165573	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of consecutive clauses	15
3075168777	Epithet	an adjective or adjectival phrase that characterizes a place, a thing, or a person that helps make the characteristics of this thing more notable	16
3075189376	Epizeuxis	repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis	17
3075192725	Eponym	a word that comes from the name of a real or mythical person or place	18
3075204099	Exemplum	using an example to illustrate a point	19
3075211480	Hyperbaton	an inversion of the normal order of words, for the sake of emphasis	20
3075214703	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	21
3076020526	Hypophora	A speaker poses a question and then answers it	22
3076020527	Litotes	ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary	23
3076024043	Metabasis	a transition or change from one subject to another	24
3076026600	Metanoia	qualifies a statement by recalling it and expressing it in a better way	25
3076029951	Metaphor	comparing two things without using like or as	26
3076031712	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute for that of the thing meant	27
3076035367	Parallelism	use of words or phrases with a similar structure	28
3076044081	Parataxis	the placing of clauses of phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination	29
3076047514	Parenthesis	an explanatory clause or phrase that is inserted into a passage	30
3076051868	Personification	a thing, idea, or an animal that is given human capabilities	31
3076054764	Polysyndeton	using conjunctions between clauses or words	32
3076056972	Procatalepsis	speaker anticipate a rebuttal to their following argument in order	33
3076075864	Rhetorical Questions	to give emphasis on a point when no answer is expected	34
3076145593	Sententia	when a quote or aphorism is used to help make a point	35
3079886505	Similie	to describe two things using like or as	36
3079888340	Symploce	the combination of anaphora and epistrophe	37
3079889888	Synecdoche	a part represents a whole, or a whole represents a part	38
3079892474	Understatement	making a situation seem less important than it actually is	39
3079895316	Zeugma	when a word applies to two others in a different sense or to two others where it suits only one	40

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AP Literature: Vocabulary Flashcards

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7358093227	Brazen	(adj.) bold and without shame	0
7358094822	Compunction	(n.) a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad	1
7358099451	Din	(n.) a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise	2
7358099470	Edict	(n.) an official order or proclamation issued by a person in authority	3
7358102464	Indiscretion	(n.) behavior or speech that is indiscreet or displays a lack of good judgement	4
7358105106	Perquisites	(n.) a thing regarded as a special right or privilege enjoyed as a result of one's position	5
7358108190	Sepulcher	(n.) a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried	6
7358112440	Suppliant	(n.) a person making a humble plea to someone in power or authority	7
7358114759	Tumult	(n.) a loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people	8
7358117423	Marauding	(adj.) going about in search of things to steal or people to attack	9
7496751770	Admonish	(v.) warn or reprimand someone firmly	10
7496755247	Akimbo	(adj.) with hands on the hips and elbows turned outward	11
7496758599	Lassitude	(n.) a state of physical or mental weariness	12
7496763798	Licentious	(adj.) promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters	13
7496774907	Muse	(n). a person or personified force who is the source of inspiration for a creative artist; (v.) to be absorbed in thought	14
7496780362	Pecuniary	(adj.) relating to or consisting of money	15
7496782934	Plight	(n.) a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation	16
7496787886	Presumptuous	(adj.) failing to observe the limits of what is permitted or appropriate	17
7496790841	Subversive	(adj.) seeking or intended to subvert an established system or institution	18
7496797594	Vacuous	(adj.) having or showing a lack of thought or intelligence; mindless	19

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AP World History Chapter 3 Flashcards

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7315121909	KEY TERMS		1
7315121910	Ahura Mazda	Zoroastrianism the good god who rules the world	2
7315121911	Alexander the Great	conqueror of Persian Empire and part of northwest India	3
7315121912	Alexander III of Macedon	Conqueror of the Persian Empire and part of northwest India	4
7315121913	Aryans	Indo-European pastoralists moved into India about time of the collapse of the Indus Valley civilization their role in causing this collapse is still debated by historians	5
7315121914	Ashoka	Most famous ruler Mauryan empire (r. 268-232 B.C.E.) converted to Buddhism and tried to rule peacefully and with tolerance.	6
7315121915	Athenian democracy	radical form of direct democracy free male population of Athens had the franchise and officeholders were chosen by lot	7
7315121916	Caesar Augustus	great-nephew adopted son of Julius Caesar emerged sole ruler of Roman state at end of extended period of civil war (r. 31 B.C.E.-14 C.E.).	8
7315121917	Cyrus the Great	Founder of Persian Empire (r. 557-530 B.C.E.) noted for his conquests religious tolerance and political moderation	9
7315121918	Darius I	Great king of Persia (r. 522-486 B.C.E) following upheavals after Cyrus's death completed establishment of the Persian Empire.	10
7315121919	Greco Persian Wars	two major Persian invasions of Greece in 490 B.C.E and 480 B.C.E which Persians were defeated on land and sea.	11
7315121920	Gupta Empire	An empire of India (320-550 C.E.).	12
7315121921	Han dynasty	Chinese dynasty (206 B.C.E to 220 C.E.) created durable state based on Shihuangdi's state-building achievement.	13
7315121922	Hellenistic era	Greek culture (323-30 B.C.E) Greek culture spread widely in Eurasia in the kingdoms ruled by Alexander's political successors.	14
7315121923	Herodotus	Greek historian "father of history" (ca. 484-ca. 425 B.C.E) Histories gave Greek view fundamental divide between East-West culminating Greco-Persian Wars(490-480 B.C.E)	15
7315121924	Hoplite	Heavily armed Greek infantryman. Over time ability to afford a hoplite panoply and to fight for city defined Greek citizenship.	16
7315121925	Ionia	Territory of Greek settlements on coast of Anatolia main contention between the Greeks and the Persian Empire	17
7315121926	Mandate of Heaven	Ideological underpinning of Chinese emperors belief ruler held authority by command of divine force as long as he ruled morally and benevolently	18
7315121927	Battle of Marathon	Athenian victory over a Persian invasion in 490 B.C.E	19
7315121928	Mauryan Empire	major empire (322-185 B.C.E.) encompassed most of India.	20
7315121929	Olympic Games	Greek religious festival and athletic competition in honor of Zeus founded in 776 B.C.E and celebrated every four years.	21
7315121930	Patricians	Wealthy privileged Romans who dominated early Roman society	22
7315121931	pax Romana	"Roman peace" typically denoted stability and prosperity of early Roman Empire especially first and second centuries C.E.	23
7315121932	Peloponnesian War	Great war between Athens (and allies) and Sparta (and allies) lasting from 431 to 404 B.C.E. Conflict ended in the defeat of Athens and the closing of Athens's Golden Age	24
7315121933	Persepolis	capital greatest palace-city of Persian Empire destroyed by Alexander the Great	25
7315121934	Persian Empire	Major empire expanded from Iranian plateau to incorporate the Middle East from Egypt to India flourished from around 550 to 330 B.C.E	26
7315121935	Plebeians	Poorer less-privileged Romans - who gradually won a role in Roman politics.	27
7315121936	Punic Wars	Three major wars between Rome and Carthage in North Africa fought between 264 and 146 B.C.E culminated in Roman victory and control of the western Mediterranean.	28
7315121937	Qin dynasty	Short-lived (221-206 B.C.E.) but highly influential Chinese dynasty succeeded in reuniting China at the end of the Warring States period	29
7315121938	Qin Shihuangdi	Literally "first emperor from the Qin" Shihuangdi (r. 221-210 B.C.E.) forcibly reunited China and established a strong and repressive state.	30
7315121939	Solon	Athenian statesman-lawmaker (594-560 B.C.E.)reforms led Athenians toward democracy	31
7315121940	Wudi	Han emperor (r. 141-86 B.C.E.) began Chinese civil service system by establishing an academy to train imperial bureaucrats	32
7315121941	Xiongnu	Nomadic peoples north-China's Great Wall-frequent threat to Chinese states stability	33
7315121942	Yellow Turban Rebellion	Major Chinese peasant revolt(184 C.E.) cause fall of Han dynasty.	34

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AP English Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

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7307413188	Narration	The recounting of a sequence of events or actions.	0
7307421974	Conflict	The struggle the protagonist goes through in a story.	1
7307425450	Protagonist	Main character.	2
7307429317	Plot	The sequence of events or incidents.	3
7307430757	Chronological	The story's actions follow one after another in time.	4
7307433996	Antagonist	The person or force opposing the protagonist.	5
7307438023	Structure	Refers to the way a story is assembled.	6
7307439851	Suspense	The quality in the story which makes the reader keep wondering what will happen next or how will this turn out.	7
7307441571	Mystery	An unusual set of circumstances for which the reader craves an explanation.	8
7307443105	Dilemma	A position in which a character must choose between two courses of action, both undesirable.	9
7307447647	Surprise	When we don't know what will happen or why.	10
7307452966	Exposition	The laying out of the materials in the story - the main characters, their backgrounds, abilities, interests, and basic assumptions.	11
7307457476	Complication	The onset and development of the major conflict. (Can be called rising action.)	12
7307467040	Crisis	The part of the action where the conflict reaches its greatest tension.	13
7307468960	Climax	It is the logical conclusion of the preceding actions; no new major developments follow it. The high point of the story.	14
7307471104	Dénoument	The completing of the story. (Similar to falling actions)	15
7307477679	Character	A person or being in a story.	16
7307482642	Theme or idea	A suggested lesson or opinion at the heart of a story.	17
7307486931	Style	Describes the landscape of an author's overall work. It is primarily determined by recognizable trends in syntax, kinds of allusions, images, etc.	18
7307487999	Point of View	Gives a quick insight into the occasion, rhetorical purpose and the speaker's relationship with the audience. It can be first, second, or third.	19
7307491731	Tone	The outward effect of a speaker's attitude towards his topic. It is implied through diction, denotation, imagery and any other place the speaker makes choices.	20
7307493692	Allegory	A moral tale where each character or facet directly symbolizes something else.	21
7307497258	Description	Text that explains the features of a thing and paints a picture in a person's mind.	22
7307504437	Irony	A contrast between the expected and the reality.	23
7307507203	Symbolism	An event, character, word or action that has a deeper meaning within the story.	24
7594571441	Synecdoche	Using the part to represent the whole	25
7594580402	Metonymy	Some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience	26

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AP Literature Vocab 1 Flashcards

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7305382993	adjunct	(n.) something added to something else as helpful or useful but not essential; an assistant or helper	0
7305384384	bellwether	(n.) male sheep that leads the flock to the slaughter house; a leader; an indicator of trends	1
7305386541	caterwaul	(v.) to howl or screech like a cat; to quarrel; a harsh cry	2
7305387919	chimerical	(adj.) absurd, wildly fantastic; impossible	3
7305389513	effete	(adj.) lacking in wholesome vigor or energy; out-of-date; exhausted; unable to produce	4
7305391501	faitaccompli	(n.) an accomplished and presumably irreversible deed, fact, or action	5
7305393060	hidebound	(adj.) narrow-minded and rigid, especially in opinions or prejudices; inflexible	6
7305394981	hierarchy	(n.) any system of things to people arranged or graded one above another in order of rank, wealth, class, etc.	7
7305404656	laissez faire	(adj.) philosophy ore practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction to interference, especially with individual freedom of choice; nonrestrictive; hands-off	8
7305408060	liturgy	(n.) a religious service or rite	9

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AP Literature Terms Flashcards

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7291638327	Aestheticism	Aestheticism (also the Aesthetic Movement) is an intellectual and art movement supporting the emphasis of aesthetic values more than social-political themes for literature, fine art, music and other arts	0
7291639718	Allegory		1
7291640688	Alliteration		2
7297689156	Allusion		3
7297691711	Ambiguity		4
7297692306	Anadiplosis		5
7297693081	Analogy		6
7297693929	Anapest		7
7297693930	Anaphora		8
7297695925	Anastrophe		9
7297695926	Antagonist		10
7297697922	Antanaclasis		11
7297699116	Anthimera		12
7297699123	Anti-hero		13
7297702293	Antimetabole		14
7297704916	Antistrophe		15
7297708325	Antithesis		16
7297715670	Aphorism		17
7297716742	Apostrophe		18
7297716743	Apposition		19
7297733116	Approximate/Slant Rhyme		20
7297734213	Aside		21
7297734214	Assonance		22
7297735760	Asyndeton		23
7297735761	Audience		24
7297736556	Balance		25
7297738777	Ballad		26
7297739269	Black Humor		27
7297739978	Blank Verse		28
7297740598	Blocking Agent		29
7297742031	Brachylogia		30
7297742032	Cacophony		31
7297743234	Caesura		32
7297743235	Carpe Diem		33
7297744364	Catalyst		34
7297744365	Catastrophe		35
7297745704	Catharsis		36
7297746788	Character		37
7297746789	Chiasmus		38
7297747435	Chorus		39
7297747745	Cinquain		40
7297748460	Climax		41
7297749639	Comedia d'ell arte		42
7297751658	Comedy of Manners		43
7297751669	Complication		44
7297752887	Conceit		45
7297753369	Concrete Poem		46
7297753370	Connotation		47
7297754330	Consonance		48
7297754969	Conventional Symbol		49
7297754970	Cosmic Irony		50
7297757031	Couplet		51
7297757032	Dactyl		52
7297757520	Dadaism		53
7297757889	Dark Romantics		54
7297757890	Dead Metaphor		55
7297758932	Denotation		56
7297759456	Denouement		57
7297760094	Deux ex Machina		58
7297760582	Dialect		59
7297761966	Dialogue		60
7297761967	Diction		61
7297762733	Dimeter		62
7297762734	Donnee		63
7297763323	Dramatic Irony		64
7297764370	Dramatic Monologue		65
7297765084	Dynamic Character		66
7297765085	Edwardian		67
7297765722	Elegy		68
7297767531	Elizabethan Age		69
7297767532	Ellipses		70
7297768366	End Rhyme		71
7297769244	End-stopping Line		72
7297773912	English/Shakespearian/Elizabethan sonnet		73
7297774876	Enjambment		74
7297774877	Envoy		75
7297669979	Zeugma		76
7297671444	Volta		77
7297672791	Villanelle		78
7297673853	Victorian Period		79
7297674686	Verbal Irony		80
7297674687	Verisimilitude		81
7297675844	Tropes		82
7297675845	Universal Symbol		83
7297677272	Trimeter		84
7297677273	Trochee		85
7297677975	Tone		86
7297677976	Transcendentalism		87
7297679388	Theme		88
7297679389	3rd Person pov		89
7297680406	Tetrameter		90
7297680407	Theater in the Round		91
7297682398	Tercet		92
7297682399	Terza Rima		93
7297683202	Syntax		94
7297683907	Symbol		95
7297683908	Synecdoche		96

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