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AP Literature Unit 2 Flashcards

33591023	accost	(v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way	0
33591024	accost	synonyms: buttonhole, approach, confront	1
33591025	accost	antonyms: evade, avoid, shun	2
33591026	animadversion	(n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval	3
33591027	animadversion	synonyms: rebuke, reproof	4
33591028	animadversion	antonyms: praise, compliment	5
33591029	avid	(adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager	6
33591030	avid	synonyms: keen, enthusiastic, grasping	7
33591031	avid	antonyms: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic	8
33591032	brackish	(adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink	9
33591033	brackish	synonyms: briny, saline	10
33591034	brackish	antonyms: fresh, clear, sweet	11
33591035	celerity	(n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action	12
33591036	celerity	synonyms: promptness, alacrity, speed	13
33591037	celerity	antonyms: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness	14
33591038	devious	(adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way	15
33591039	devious	synonyms: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful	16
33591040	devious	antonyms: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard	17
33591041	gambit	(n) in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type	18
33591042	gambit	synonyms: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver	19
33591043	halcyon	(n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher	20
33591044	halcyon	(adj) of or relating to the bird; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent	21
33591045	halcyon	synonyms: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy	22
33591046	halcyon	antonyms: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous	23
33591047	histrionic	(adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic	24
33591048	histrionic	synonyms: affected, stagy	25
33591049	histrionic	antonyms: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued	26
33591050	incendiary	(adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion	27
33591051	incendiary	(n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife	28
33591052	incendiary	synonyms: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand	29
33591053	incendiary	antonyms: soothing, quieting, peacemaker	30
33591054	maelstrom	(n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction	31
33591055	maelstrom	synonyms: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult	32
33591056	myopic	(adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment	33
33591057	myopic	synonym: shortsighted	34
33591058	myopic	antonym: farsighted	35
33591059	overt	(adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized	36
33591060	overt	synonyms: clear, obvious, manifest, patent	37
33591061	overt	antonyms: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed	38
33591062	pejorative	(adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling	39
33591063	pejorative	antonyms: complimentary, ameliorative	40
33591064	propriety	(n) the state of being proper, appropriateness	41
33591065	propriety	(pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable	42
33591066	propriety	synonyms: fitness, correctness, decorum	43
33591067	propriety	antonyms: unseemliness, inappropriateness	44
33591068	sacrilege	(n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred	45
33591069	sacrilege	synonyms: desecration, profanation, defilement	46
33591070	summarily	(adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely	47
33591071	summarily	synonyms: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly	48
33591072	suppliant	(adj) asking humbly and earnestly	49
33591073	suppliant	(n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor	50
33591074	talisman	(n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish	51
33591075	undulate	(v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form	52
33591076	undulate	synonyms: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall	53

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AP Literature Vocab I (Intro) Flashcards

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82299712	diction	the author's choice of words	0
82299713	tone	the attitude of the writer toward his or her material, the audience, or both. Similar to mood, conveying the emotion that pervades a literary work	1
82299714	imagery	sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstraction. Language may relate to the five senses: visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory. May be used with other figures of speech to create a strong, unified sensory impression.	2
82299715	irony	the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant; the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true. May be verbal, situational, or dramatic.	3
82299716	syntax	the order or arrangement of words	4
82299717	metaphor	a figure of speech using a comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting similarity	5
82299718	simile	a figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as."	6
82299719	personification	a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes. Technique is used to make these abstractions, animals, or objects appear more vivid to the reader.	7
82299720	hyperbole	figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.	8
82299723	antithesis	language presenting opposition or contrast as in "Give me liberty or give me death."	9
82299726	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which an author juxtaposes apparently contradictory terms. A rhetorical antithesis. For example, "wise fool" and "thundering silence"	10
82299727	symbolism	anything that represents, stands for, something else.	11
82478384	colloquial language	characteristic of familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal, conversational	12
82478385	slang	informal language related to a particular group; idiomatic, playful, ephemeral language	13
82478386	connotation	the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning; the implied or suggested meaning	14
82478387	denotation	the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word	15
82478390	juxtaposition	the placement of elements, characters, scenes, objects, etc. side by side for purposes of comparison and contrast	16
82478391	vivid	producing a strong or clear impression on the senses	17
82478392	concrete language	language pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions	18
82478394	abstract language	language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places.	19
82478396	ambiguity	the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a words, phrase, sentence, or passage.	20
82478397	verbose	wordy	21
82478398	concise	marked by brevity of expression or statement; free from all elaboration and superfluous detail	22
82557046	figurative language	language not intended to convey literal meaning, usually imaginative and vivid; a figure of speech (metaphor, simile, personification, etc.) is a device used to produce this	23
2806101155	elevated language	language characterized by formal diction and syntax. More formal diction may be polysyllabic and sentences may be more complex	24

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AP Composition and Language #5 Flashcards

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5309658471	indolent	lazy	0
5309658472	insipid	uninteresting; unchallenging	1
5309660060	listless	lacking energy	2
5309660061	alienated	removed or disassociated from (friends, family or homeland)	3
5309662229	alliance	to unite formally (as by treaty, league, marriage, or the like)	4
5309662230	disparity	inequality in age, rank, or degree, difference	5
5309664408	servile	submissive; like a servant	6
5309664409	suppressed	subdued; kept from being circulated	7

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AP Literature Set 2 Flashcards

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1575328710	alliteration	Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables	0
1575328711	diction	A speaker or writer's choice of words (formal, informal, colloquial, full of slang, poetic, ornate, plain, abstract, concrete, etc.); it has a powerful effect on tone	1
1575328712	figurative language	A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.	2
1575328713	hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	3
1575328714	imagery	A technique a writer uses to create pictures in the reader's mind and to appeal to the senses of touch, taste, smell, or hearing.	4
1575328715	dramatic irony	..., In this type of irony, facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work	5
1575335577	irony	A contrast or discrepancy between what is stated and what is really meant, or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen.	6
1575335578	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	7
1575335579	cosmic irony	Type of irony where it seems that God or fate is manipulating events so as to inspire false hopes, which are inevitably dashed.	8
1575335580	metaphor	A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as.	9
1575335581	narrator	A speaker or character who tells a story.	10
1575335582	first person	The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He can't tell us thoughts of other characters.	11
1575335583	third person limited	Narrator is not a character, but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts	12
1575335584	third person omniscient	Point of view in which a narrator, with a godlike knowledge, is privy to the thoughts and actions of any or all characters.	13
1575335585	second person	A point of view that directly addresses the reader by using "you"	14
1575335586	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	15
1575335587	setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	16
1575335588	simile	A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"	17
1575335589	tone	Attitudes and presuppositions of the author that are revealed by their linguistic choices (diction, syntax, rhetorical devices)	18

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AP Language Flashcards

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4039683493	Wordsworth	Romantic	0
4039688241	Coleridge	Romantic	1
4039688242	Inspired by French Revolution	Romantic	2
4039691297	Reaction against Industrial Revolution	Romantic	3
4039691298	Belief in Imagination	Romantic	4
4039700231	William Blake	Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience	5
4039709891	William Blake	Romantic	6
4039709892	William Wordsworth	Romantic	7
4039714615	I wandered Lonely as a Cloud	William Wordsworth	8
4039716274	Composed upon Westminster Bridge	William Wordsworth	9
4039718321	Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey	William Wordsworth	10
4039727116	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Romantic	11
4039727117	Lord Byron	Romantic	12
4039733459	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Romantic	13
4039733460	John Keats	Romantic	14
4039756846	Kubla Khan	Sam Coleridge	15
4039758433	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Sam Coleridge	16
4039761436	She walks in Beauty	Lord Byron	17
4039763430	Ode to the West Wind	Percy Shelley	18
4039767829	Ode to a Nightingale	John Keats	19
4039768869	Ode to a Grecian Urn	John Keats	20
4039774683	Queen Victoria	Victorian	21
4039774684	Child Labor Laws	Victorian	22
4039776310	Voting Laws	Victorian	23
4039777492	Colonialism	Victorian	24
4039777493	Prudery	Victorian	25
4039780246	lord Tennyson alfred	Victorian	26
4039781616	robert Browning	Victorian	27
4039783050	matthew Arnold	Dover Beach	28
4039786065	Robert browning	Porphyria's Lover	29
4039786066	Matthew Arnold	Victorian	30
4039788280	Alliteration	repeated consonant sounds	31
4039789763	Apostrophe	when a poet addresses something nonhuman	32
4039791363	Dramatic Irony	occurs when the audience knows something the character doesnt	33
4039794774	Dramatic monologue	when the speaker of a poem addresses a silent listener	34
4039797986	Irony	contrast between expectations and reality	35
4039799094	Pentameter	10 syllables per iambic line	36
4039801084	Satire	ridicules human weakness or folly to provoke thought	37
4039805220	Sonnet	14 line poem, written in iambic pentameter with 3 quatrains and a couplet	38
4039807685	Tetrameter	8 syllables per iambic line	39
4039808813	Trimeter	6 syllables per iambic line	40
4039810546	Oscar Wilde	importance of being earnest	41
4039812027	Victorian Era	1832-1901	42
4039813417	Romantic Age	1798-1832	43

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AP Language Flashcards

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4222978314	denotation	0
4222978315	connotation	1
4222980351	formal	2
4222980352	informal	3
4222982694	diction	4
4222984163	pt of view	5
4222984164	writer's attitude	6
4222986198	syntax	7
4222986199	tone	8
4222988979	speaker's attitude	9
4222990472	ambiguity	10
4222990473	qualifies	11
4222992853	time shift	12
4222992854	monologue	13
4222996119	paradox	14
4222996127	parallelism	15
4222998617	allusion	16
4222998618	syllogism	17
4223000959	antithesis	18
4223000960	sentence length	19
4223003147	word order	20
4223003148	narrative pace	21
4223004973	paragraphing	22
4223004974	transition	23
4223007882	figurative language	24
4223009734	stream of consciousness	25
4223015776	elegy	26
4223015777	ode	27
4223018083	epigraph	28
4223018084	epitaph	29
4223020196	oxymoron	30
4223020197	stanza	31
4223024403	metaphysical poems	32
4223024404	quatrain	33
4223029475	epic	34
4223037908	euphemism	35
4223037909	conceit	36
4223054439	hyperbole	37
4223054440	dramatic monologue	38
4223057957	couplets	39
4223057958	heroic couplets	40
4223061014	rhetoric	41
4223061015	enjambment	42
4223062680	pathetic fallacy	43
4223070421	propaganda	44
4223072077	anecdote	45
4223075477	viewpoint	46
4223077899	epistolary	47
4223079453	juxtaposition	48
4223079454	analogy	49
4223082699	bildungsroman	50
4223082700	valediction	51
4223085134	retrospection	52
4223088201	foil	53
4223088202	antagonist	54
4223090565	protagonist	55
4223090566	hubris	56
4223093157	doppelganger	57
4223095491	noble savage	58
4223096845	Puritanism	59
4223099730	Age of Reason	60
4223099731	Romanticism	61
4223102321	Transcendentalism	62
4223102322	Gothic	63
4223104462	Victorianism	64
4223104463	Realism	65
4223106411	Naturalism	66
4223106412	angst	67
4223108276	the absurd	68
4223108277	Existentialism	69
4223111229	verisimilitude	70
4223115763	dystopia	71
4223117518	tragedy (literary def.)	72
4223117519	initiation story	73
4223140955	simile	74
4223140956	metaphor	75
4223143610	colloquial	76
4223149221	syllogism	77
4223157290	parallel construction	78
4223159321	ad-hominem	79
4223162732	innuendo	80
4223186159	euphemism	81
4223187970	juxtapose	82
4223187971	alliteration	83
4223190639	motif	84
4223190640	invective	85
4223194127	jargon	86
4223194128	diatribe	87
4223196916	infidel	88
4223196917	pernicious	89
4223198490	ambivalence	90
4223198491	zealous	91
4223203347	diatribe	92
4223203348	voracious	93
4223205284	cloistered	94
4223205285	burlesque	95
4223207324	integrity	96
4223207325	prudent	97
4223209382	fervent	98
4223209383	gratuitous	99
4223214009	cynical	100
4223214010	despotism	101
4223217908	punctilious	102
4223217909	exhort	103
4223219963	hypocrisy	104
4223219964	bellicose	105
4223222058	didactic	106
4223222059	vanquish	107
4223224126	emulate	108
4223224127	petulant	109
4223226528	ignominy	110
4223226529	pedantic	111
4223229066	consecrate	112
4223229067	doggerel	113
4223234867	complacent	114
4223234868	languid	115
4223236680	vex	116
4223236681	feign	117
4223238044	pious	118
4223238045	mordant	119
4223239494	callous	120
4223239495	dyspeptic	121
4223240928	tacit	122
4223240929	embellishment	123
4223242868	dogmatic	124
4223242869	pragmatic	125
4223248179	Metonymy	126
4223248180	Synecdoche	127
4223289381	elegiac	128
4223289382	spatial	129
4223289383	terse	130
4223294454	interior monologue	131
4223294455	allegory	132
4223297635	pathos	133
4223300747	logos	134
4223300748	egos	135
4223304467	antithetical	136
4223304468	anecdotal	137
4223306992	inversion	138
4223313035	mode of discourse	139
4223317749	shift	140

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AP Language: Review Set 2 Flashcards

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4381619284	Anachronism	The misplacement of a person, occurrence, custom, or idea in time; also sometimes refers to an individual or thing that is incorrectly placed in time.	0
4381619285	Catharsis	A cleansing or purification of one's emotions through art.	1
4381619286	Propaganda	Ideas, facts, or allegations spread to persuade others to support one's cause or to go against the opposing cause.	2
4381619287	Antithesis: the contrasting of ideas by the use of parallel structure in phrases or clauses.	"I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him."	3
4381619288	Parody	A humorous and often satirical imitation of the style or particular work of another author.	4
4381619289	Metonymy: a figure of speech in which something is referred to by one of its attributes.	"The crown carries many responsibilities."	5
4381619290	Allegory	A narrative in which literal meaning corresponds directly with symbolic meaning.	6
4381619291	Ambiguity	A word or idea that can be understood in multiple ways; frequently refers to the condition of being obscure or difficult to understand.	7
4381619292	Alliteration: the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants, at the beginning of words.	"Barber, baby, bubbles, and a bumblebee"	8
4381619293	Prose	Any composition not written in verse.	9
4381619294	Nostalgia	A yearning for the past or for some condition or state of existence that cannot be recovered.	10
4381619295	Litotes: deliberate understatement, in which an idea or opinion is often affirmed by negating its opposite.	"It's nothing. I'm just bleeding to death is all."	11
4381619296	Hyperbole: excessive overstatement or conscious exaggeration of fact.	"I've told you this a million times already."	12
4381619297	Satire	"A work that ridicules the shortcomings of individuals, institutions, or society, often to make a political point."	13
4381619298	Diction	Specific word choice used in a piece of writing, often chosen for effect but also for correctness and clarity.	14
4381619299	Oxymoron: the association of two contradictory terms.	"Same difference;" "Jumbo shrimp;" "Soft rock."	15
4381619300	Metaphor: the comparison of unlike things without the use of like or as.	"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage."	16
4381619301	Logos	Greek for "wisdom" or "reason"; in the context of rhetoric, refers to the process of persuading by means of logic and reason, as opposed to style, authority, or emotion.	17
4381619302	Parable	A short narrative that illustrates a moral by means of allegory (in which literal meaning and symbolic meaning correspond clearly and directly).	18
4381619303	Sarcasm: a simple form of verbal irony, in which it is obvious from context and tone that the speaker means the opposite of what he or she says.	Saying "that was graceful" when someone trips and falls.	19
4381619304	Onomatopoeia: the use of words that sound like the thing or action to which they refer.	"Bow-wow. Crackle. Buzz. Zoom."	20
4381619305	Denotation	The explicit, literal meaning of a word.	21
4381619306	Imagery	Language that brings to mind sense-impressions, especially via figures of speech	22
4381619307	Ellipsis	A figure of speech in which a word pr short phrase is omitted, but easily understood from the context; also the marks (...) that indicates the omission of a word or phrase.	23
4381619308	Foreshadowing	To present ideas, images, events, or comments that hint at events to come in a story.	24
4381619309	Pathos	From the Greek word for "feeling"; the quality in a work of literature that evokes high emotion, most commonly sorrow, pity, or compassion.	25
4381619310	Personification: the use of human characteristics to describe animals, objects, or ideas.	"The handsome houses on the street to the college were not fully awake, but they looked very friendly."	26
4381619311	Expository	An explanation of the meaning or purpose of a piece of writing, especially one that is difficult to understand.	27
4381619312	Dramatic irony: a technique in which the author lets the reader in on a character's situation while the character remains in the dark.	In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus vows to discover his father's murderer, not knowing, as the audience does, that he himself is the murderer.	28
4381619313	Anaphora: repeated use of a word or phrase at the start of successive phrases or sentences for effect.	"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills."	29
4381619314	Synecdoche: a figure of speech in which a part of an entity is used to refer to the whole.	"One thousand sails pursued Paris when he fled with Helen of Troy."	30
4381619315	Inductive reasoning: reasoning in which one arrives at a general conclusion from specific instances.	"I got hives from the shrimp I ate last night. I must be allergic to shellfish."	31
4381619316	Digression	To turn or move away from the main subject of discussion or the main argument in a piece of writing.	32
4381619317	Apostrophe: a direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea.	Walt Whitman's poem "O Captain, My Captain" was written upon the death of Abraham Lincoln	33
4381619318	Chiasmus: two phrases in which the syntax is the same but placement of words is reversed.	"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."	34
4381619319	Stream-of-consciousness	Form of narration in which the narrator conveys a subject's thoughts, impressions, and perceptions exactly as they occur, often in disjointed fashion and without the logic and grammar of typical speech and writing.	35
4381619320	Situational irony	A technique in which one understanding of a situation stands in sharp contrast to another, usually more prevalent, understanding of the same situation.	36
4381619321	Caricature	In writing and literature, an author's exaggeration or distortion of certain traits or characteristics of an individual.	37
4381619322	Bildungsroman	A novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist, or main character.	38
4381619323	Epithet: an adjective or phrase that describes a prominent or distinguishing feature of a person or thing.	"The wine-dark sea"	39
4381619324	Cliche: an expression that has been used so frequently it has lost its expressive power.	"Avoid it like the plague."	40

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AP Language and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

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4043055339	brazen	shameless or impudent	0
4043056847	compunction	a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret	1
4043059992	din	a loud, confusing noise	2
4043061043	edict	a proclamation, decree, or command	3
4043062698	indiscretion	lack of discretion; indiscreet act of remark	4
4043064413	perquisite	gratuity or tip; advantage or benefit	5
4043066861	sepulcher	a tomb, grave, or burial place	6
4043068249	suppliant	expressive of a plea	7
4043069198	tumult	noise caused by a crowd; disorder	8
4043072799	marauding	in search of things to steal or people to attack	9
4043075698	admonish	to caution or advise against	10
4043077444	akimbo	with hand on hip and elbow bent outward	11
4043079232	lassitude	weariness of body or mind from strain; lack of energy	12
4043081601	licentious	unrestrained, lewd	13
4043082724	muse	influence, source of inspiration	14
4043085734	pecuniary	of or relating to money	15
4043086673	plight	a condition, situation, or state, especially an unfavorable or unfortunate one	16
4043090003	presumptuous	showing readiness to presume by saying or doing something without permission	17
4043095180	subversive	tending to overthrow or undermine an existing system	18
4043096132	vacuous	without contents; empty; lacking ideas or intelligence	19
4043104199	avocation	a hobby or minor occupation	20
4043110705	callous	showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others	21
4043112275	capricious	susceptible to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood of behavior	22
4043130289	disparity	a great difference	23
4043113860	efficacy	the ability to produce a desired or intended result	24
4043114890	epistle	a letter, poem, or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters	25
4043117136	hospice	a home providing care for the sick, especially the terminally ill	26
4043119948	impetus	the force or energy with which a body moves; the force that makes something happen	27
4043121445	moribund	at the point of death	28
4043122745	vacillate	to alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; to be indecisive	29
4043141392	akin	of similar character; related by blood	30
4043142310	corroborate	to confirm or give support to	31
4043143703	inexorable	impossible to prevent	32
4043143704	insipid	lacking flavor; lacking vigor or interest	33
4043145262	nefarious	wicked or criminal	34
4043146723	physiognomy	a person's facial features or expression	35
4043147957	retinue	a group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person	36
4043149902	tedium	the state of being tedious (tiresome or monotonous)	37
4043151800	torrid	very hot and dry; full of difficulty	38
4043155823	affront	an action or remark that causes outrage	39
4043156972	blasé	unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before	40
4043159486	cajole	to persuade someone to do something by consistent coaxing or flattery	41
4043162709	choleric	bad-tempered or irritable	42
4043162710	encumber	to restrict or burden in such a way that free action or movement is difficult	43
4043164309	feckless	lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible	44
4043165630	impasse	a situation in which no progress is possible	45
4043166959	indolent	wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy	46
4043168953	lugubrious	looking or sounding sad and dismal	47
4043170108	ribald	referring to sexual matters in an amusingly rude way	48
4086895071	adulation	excessive admiration or praise	49
4086898871	censure	to formally express severe disapproval	50
4086899896	dissemble	to conceal one's true feelings, motives, or beliefs	51
4086900761	dissimulation	the concealment of one's true feelings, motives, or beliefs	52
4086902162	droll	amusing in an odd way	53
4086903501	expectorate	to cough or spit out phlegm from the throat or lungs	54
4086904315	palpate	to examine by touch, especially for medical purposes	55
4086904376	peremptory	leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal; assertive	56
4086908237	pusillanimous	lacking courage, cowardly	57
4086909235	surfeit	an excessive amount	58
4218539149	allay	to diminish or put at rest	59
4218540491	capacious	having a lot of space inside	60
4218541849	didactic	intended to teach; in the manner of a teacher	61
4218543454	diurnal	of or during the day	62
4218545494	ignominious	deserving or causing public disgrace or shame	63
4218546943	mitigate	to make less severe, serious, or painful	64
4218548314	palpitate	beat rapidly, strongly, or irregularly; shake or tremble	65
4218552127	phlegmatic	having an unemotional and calm disposition	66
4218553356	propitious	favorable with a good chance of success	67
4218555304	prostrate	to reduce to extreme physical weakness	68
4233758172	acquiesce	to accept something reluctantly but without protest	69
4233758173	amity	a friendly relationship	70
4233758174	arduous	involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring	71
4233758175	gestalt	an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts	72
4233759695	inundate	to overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with	73
4233759696	perjury	the offense of willfully telling an untruth in a court after having taken an oath or affirmation	74
4233761152	perspicuity	clearness or lucidity, as of a statement	75
4233761153	preposterous	contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous	76
4233761154	trepidation	a feeling of fear or agitation about something that may happen	77
4233761155	voluble	speaking or spoken incessantly and fluently	78
4279519441	alacrity	brisk and cheerful readiness	79
4279519442	aplomb	self-confidence or assurance, especially when in a demanding situation	80
4279519443	barrage	to bombard (someone) with something	81
4279519444	cognizant	having knowledge or being aware of	82
4279520904	collusion	secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy in order to cheat or deceive others	83
4279520905	deleterious	causing harm or damage	84
4279520906	hegemony	leadership or dominance by one country or social group over others	85
4279520907	paradigm	a typical example or pattern of something; a model	86
4279522246	unctuous	excessively or ingratiatingly flattering	87
4279522247	urbane	suave, courteous, and refined in manner	88
4335512215	ambulatory	relating to or adapted for walking	89
4335512216	churlish	rude in a mean-spirited way	90
4335514345	diffident	modest or shy because of a lack of self-confidence	91
4335518437	ennui	a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement	92
4335518438	inscrutable	impossible to understand or interpret	93
4335520897	prognosticate	to foretell of	94
4335520898	schism	a split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties	95
4335520899	sedition	conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch	96
4335523847	wizened	shriveled or wrinkled with age	97

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1626598919	Allegory	a story or poem in which characters, setting, and events stand for other people, other events, abstract ideas or qualities	0
1626598920	Allusion	a reference in a literary work to a person, place or thing in history or another work of literature	1
1626598921	Alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	2
1626598922	Ambiguity	deliberately suggesting two or more different, and sometimes conflicting meanings in a work	3
1626598923	Analogy	a comparison of two things to show that they are alike	4
1626598924	Antagonist	a character in a story or poem who deceives, frustrates, or works against the main character, or protagonist, in some way	5
1626598925	Apostrophe	calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or to a personified idea	6
1626598926	Anecdote	a brief account of an interesting incident or event that usually is intended to entertain or to make a point	7
1626598927	Aside	an actor's speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actor's on the stage, used to let the audience know what a character is about to do or what he or she is thinking	8
1626598928	Assonance	a repetition of vowel sounds within a line	9
1626598929	Atmosphere	a pervading emotional quality developed by the handling of the setting, helps to establish tone	10
1626598930	Bildungsroman	a coming of age story	11
1626598931	Cacophony	harsh, clashing, or dissonant sounds	12
1626598932	Caesura	a pause or a sudden break in meter or rhythm in a line of poetry; sometimes punctuated, sometimes not	13
1626598933	Characterization	the process by which the author reveals the personality of a character	14
1626598934	Climax	the point in the plot that creates the greatest intensity, suspense, or interest-- sometimes referred to as "turning point"	15
1626598935	Colloquialism	a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing, but is inappropriate for formal situation	16
1626598936	Conceit	an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different, often an extended metaphor	17
1626598937	Connotation	the idea and feeling associated with a word as opposed to its dictionary definition	18
1626598938	Denotation	the exact or dictionary meaning of a word	19
1626598939	Detail	facts that support the thesis or assertion in a piece of writing	20
1626598940	Diction	author's word choice	21
1626598941	Figurative Language	words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe	22
1626598942	Imagery	the use of words and phrases that appeal to the five senses	23
1626598943	Pacing	speed in which the plot moves along	24
1626598944	Point of View	perspective from which the story is told	25
1626598945	Shift	a change or movement in a piece from one point, idea, concept, etc, to another; usually signaled by words such as but, then, however, etc.	26
1626598946	Syntax	the actual way in which words and sentences are placed together in the writing	27
1626598947	Theme	the insight about human nature revealed in a work	28
1626598948	Tone	the writer's attitude or feeling about his or her subject	29
1626663464	Conflict	the struggle between opposing forces in literature; internal and external	30
1626663465	Consonance	a special type of alliteration in which the repeated pattern of consonants is marked by changes in intervening sounds	31
1626663466	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break	32
1626663467	Epiphany	moment in the story where a character achieves realization, awareness or feeling of knowledge after which events are through a different light within the story	33
1626663468	Euphony	attempting to group words together harmoniously, so that the consonants permit an easy and pleasing flow of sound when spoken	34
1626663469	Flashback	a narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events, in order to provide background for the current narration	35
1626663470	Foil	a character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character	36
1626663471	Foreshadowing	use of hints and clues to suggest a future happening in the plot	37
1626663472	Genre	a type or category of literature marked by shared features	38
1626663473	Hyperbole	an extravagant exaggeration	39
1626663474	Irony	a discrepancy between appearances and reality	40
1626663475	Juxtaposition	the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side by side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense or character development	41
1626663476	Litotes	an understatement in which the affirmative is expressed by the negation of the opposite	42
1626663477	Metaphor	the comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as	43
1626663478	Metonymy	the substitution of a word which relates to the object or person to be named, in place of the name itself Ex. The pen is mightier than the sword	44
1626663479	Mood	an atmosphere created by the writer's diction and the details	45
1626663480	Motif	a recurring object, concept, or structure in a piece of work	46
1626663481	Onomatopoeia	the use of words whose sounds echo their sense	47
1626663482	Omniscient	All knowing as in its narration, the narrator knows everything about all characters	48
1626663483	Oxymoron	the use of combining opposites or contradictory phrases or terms in a phrase	49
1626663484	Parallelism	when the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length	50
1626663485	Parody	a work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style	51
1626706637	paradox	a statement that appears self-contradictory, but that reveals a truth	52
1626706638	Personification	when an object or animal is given human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes	53
1626706639	Protagonist	the central character of a story, the one who initiates the action	54
1626706640	Sarcasm	the use of verbal irony meant to say one thing, but mean another	55
1626706641	Satire	a type of writing that ridicules the shortcomings of people or institutions in attempt to bring about a change	56
1626706642	Scansion	reading a poem in such a way to determine its meter (stresses and unstresses in a line)	57
1626706643	Setting	the general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which the action of a fictional or dramatic work occurs	58
1626706644	Simile	the comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as	59
1626706645	Stereotype	a character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation	60
1626706646	Subjective	based on influence by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions	61
1626706647	Symbol	when an object, person, place, thing that has meaning in itself stands for something else, usually more complex	62
1626706648	Synaesthesia	it involves taking one type of sensory input (light, sound, smell, touch, taste) and coupling it with another separate sense in an impossible way. In the resulting figure of speech, we end up discussing how color tastes or looks smell.	63
1626706649	Synecdoche	a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part	64
1626706650	Style	the distinctive way in which a writer uses language which includes diction, tone, and syntax	65
1626706651	Turning point	That crucial moment in story where the fate of the hero or heroine is sealed, when the events of the plot must move forward toward a happy or unhappy ending	66

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