AP Language Semester Exam Terms
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| a story in which characters/events/settings represent a second meaning beneath the surface. | ||
| urgent, persistent in request or demand. | ||
| detached, apart, indifferent | ||
| isolated, concerned with only local matters | ||
| harsh or corrosive in tone | ||
| believing the worst of human nature and motives | ||
| feeling or showing extreme anger | ||
| making wise decisions | ||
| exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental | ||
| imaginative recreation of an event or feeling, especially from the past | ||
| marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships | ||
| word or phrase to substitute something, or insult | ||
| ambiguity of a meaning leading to more than one interpretation | ||
| stimulating, affecting the feelings | ||
| belittling or undervaluing oneself excessively | ||
| not genuine | ||
| longing for something past | ||
| mixed feelings or emotions | ||
| appearance, how pleasing something can be | ||
| the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | ||
| present at birth but not necessarily hereditary | ||
| uniformity, similarity | ||
| repetition of words, phrases, and clauses used in a concise manner, to emphasize a point | ||
| a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause | ||
| two or more subjects joined together usually by "and" or "or" that share a common verb | ||
| does not express a complete thought and cannot stand by itself as a complete sentence |