AP English Final Flashcards

183197722	invective	attack using strong abusive words	0
183197723	antececedent	a word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun	1
183197724	PENDANTIC	an adjective that describes words phrases or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish	2
183197725	syntax	the way an author choses to join words in a phrase or sentence	3
183197726	chiasmus	a figure of speech based on inverted parallelism. it is a rethorical figure in which two clauses are related to eachother through a reversal of terms. purpose= to make larger point, to make balanced or order	4
183197727	allegory	the device of using character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. the meaning usually deals with a moral truth or generalization about human existence	5
183197728	personification	a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions	6
183197729	predicate nominative	a second type of subject complement- a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject	7
183197730	oxymoron	the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox	8
183197731	colloquialism	slang or informality in speech or writing. not generally acceptable in formal writing	9
183197732	litotes	a figure of speech by which an affirmation is made indirectly by denying its opposite	10
183197733	transition	a word or phrase that links different ideas. Used especially although not exclusively in expository and argumentative writing	11
183197734	ad hominen argument	appeals to emotion rather than reason to feeling rather than intellect	12
183197735	parody	a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic affectand or ridicule	13
183197736	apostate	one who forsakes his religion or party	14
183197737	gothic	characterized by or emphasizing a gloomy setting and grotesque or violent events	15
183197738	consensus	collective or general agreement of an opinion feeling or thinking	16
183197739	labyrinth	a bewildering maze; any confusing or complicated situation	17
183197740	effusive	highly demonstrative; unrestrained	18
183197741	quixotic	extravagently or romantically idealistic; visionary without regard to practical consideration	19
183197742	tangential	only slightly connected; only supericially relevant	20
183197743	bravado	a display of false or assemed courage	21
183197744	redundant	superflous, needlessly repetitive	22
183197745	euphora	a feeling of great happiness or well-being often with no objective basis	23
183197746	impasse	a dead end; a postition from which there is no excape	24
183197747	calumny	a false and malicious statement made to injure someone's reputation or character	25
183197748	dichotomy	division into two contradictory or mutualy exclusive parts	26
183197749	mystique	the framework of ideas or beliefs constructed around a person or thing which confers upon him or its profound meaning; and aura of mystery	27
183197750	non sequitur	any inference or conclusion which does not follow logically from the facts or premises	28
183197751	sine qua non	an essential or indispensable element or condition	29
183197752	plebeian	of belonging to common people or the lower classes; coarse or vulgar; member of common	30
183197753	propitious	favorable indicative of favor, good results, or a happy outcome	31
183197754	lugubrious	sad mournful or gloomy especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree	32
183197755	metamorphosis	a complete transformation as if by magic	33
183197756	constrict	to make smaller or narrower	34
183197757	raconteur	a person who tells stories and anecdotes with great skill	35
183197758	vendetta	a prolonged feud often between two families characterized by retaliatory acts or revenge	36
183197759	quagmire	soft soggy mush or slush; a difficult or entrapping	37
183197760	parlous	full of danger or risk; perilous	38
183197761	punctilio	a minure detail of conduct or procedure, an instant of time	39
183197762	viable	capable of living or developing under normal circumstances	40
183197763	vacuous	devoid of matter substance or meaning; lacking ideas or intalligence; purposeless	41
183197764	narcissism	excessive self love; absorption in oneself	42
183197765	charisma	the special personal magnetism that makes an individual exceptionally appealing to other people	43
183197766	precarious	very uncertain or unsure; dangerous risky	44
183197767	niggardly	stingy;meaning small or insufficient	45
183197768	execrable	utterly detestable hateful or abhorremt; extremely inferior	46
183197769	utilitarian	more noteworthy for usefulness than for attractiveness	47
183197770	zany	clownish or funny in a crazy buzarre or ludicrous way	48
183197771	xenophobia	undue or unreasonable fear hatred or contempt of foreigners or strangers	49
183197772	pastiche	a dramatic musical or literary work that made up of bits and piecesfrom other sources	50
183197773	augur	a prophet or seer(V) to predict of foreshadow	51
183197774	vagary	an unpredictable erratic or seemingly purposeless action occurrence or notion	52
183197775	rapport	a close and harmonious relationship	53
183197776	raconteur	a person who tells stories and anecdotes with great skill	54
183197777	zealot	a fanatical partisan; an ardent follower	55
183197778	apposite	appropriate; suitable, apt	56
183197779	impinge	to stricke against or collide with violently; to encroach or obtrude upon	57
183197780	bilk	to defraud cheat or swindle out of one's due; to evade payment by stealth or fraud	58
183197781	debilitate	to make weak or feeble	59
183197782	clairvoyant	reputedly able to see things outside the normal or usual rnage of human perception such a person	60
183197783	immaculate	spotlesswithout blemish or fault	61
183197784	bromide	a trite or commplace remark; a tiresome or boring person	62
183197785	acerbity	sourness or bitterness of taste; harshness or severity of manner or expression	63
183197786	ineluctable	not able to be avoided changed or overcome	64
183197787	vestigial	visible or existing only in a rudimentary or greatly degenerated state	65
183197788	resplendent	shining or gleaming brilliantly splendid or magnificiant	66
183197789	accolade	praise or approval	67
183197790	mercurial	characterized by rapid and unpredictable changes of mood	68
183197791	imprecation	a curse, the act of cursing	69
183197792	empathy	the ability to enter into or experience another person's actions feelings or thoughts as if they were ones own	70
183197793	factionalism	party strife and intrigue	71
183197794	chauvinist	extravagantly patriotic; blindly devoted to a cause	72
183197795	attrition	the process of wearing down by friction or gradual impairment	73
183197796	volition	the power to chose, will, or decide; the act of choosing	74
183197797	vainglory	excessive pride in and boastfulness about one's own accomplishments	75
183197798	sub rosa	in secret confidentially privately	76
183197799	stigmatize	to brand or mark out as in some way discernitable	77
183197800	palliate	to make less serious or severe by glossing over, to relieve witout actually curing	78
183197801	protocol	cutoms and regulations dealing with official behavior and etiquette	79
183197802	contretemps	an inopportune or embarassing occurrence; a mishap	80
183197803	disparate	completely distinct or differnet; entirely dissimilar	81
183197804	convolution	a rolling up coiling twisting together	82
183197805	repartee	a swift witty reply, conversation full of such remarks ; skill in making such replies or conversation	83
183197806	dogmatic	certain of the truth of one's ideas onclined to state opinions as if they were indisputable facts	84
183197807	apropos	appropriate, opprotune, prelevantly	85
183197808	noxious	harmful to physical health or morals	86
183197809	apogee	the point in which the orbit of a heavenly body or artificially satelite farthest from the earth	87
183197810	unconscionable	not guided or restrained by conscious prudence or reason	88
183197811	edify	to instruct in such a way as to encourage moral or spiritual development: to uplift	89
183197812	necromacy	the art of conjuring up and communicating with the spirits of the dead	90
183197813	probity	complete and confirmed honesty: total integrity	91
183197814	licentious	morally or sexually unrestrained; having no regard for accepted rules customs or laws	92
183197815	bicker	to engage in a petty or peevish dispute	93
183197816	mete	to distribute or apportion as if by measure	94
183197817	polemic	an argument designed to attack or refute a specific opinion or doctrine	95
183197818	proscribe	to denounce or condemn as harmful or dangerous to prohibit or forbid to outlaw	96
183197819	cull	to pick out or select	97
183197820	coalesce	to bleand together or fuse so as to form one body or substance	98
183197821	supervene	to take place or occur as something additional or unexpected to follow immediately after	99
183197822	curmudgeon	an irascible churlish person	100
183197823	beguile	to mislead or decieve to cheat	101
183197824	complement	something that makes a whole: quanitity or number neededto make up whole	102
183197825	disingenous	lacking in sincerity or candor; not straightforward	103
183197826	adumbrate	to outline or sketch broadly: to foreshadow or prefigure	104
183197827	apothesosis	the elevation or a person to divine rank o status ; the glorification of a person as an ideal	105
183197828	contumacious	obstinately or willfully disoedient openly rebelious difficult to work with	106
183197829	burgeon	to pull forth new buds or greenery	107
183197830	disquisition	a formal discourse or treaty	108
183197831	didactic	insturctive morally or ethically	109
183197832	hauteur	haughtiness of bearing or attitude	110
183197833	jeremiad	an elaborate or prolonged lamentation	111
183197834	purport	the meaning or purpose of something to claim or profess to mean or imply	112
183197835	faux pas	a slight slip in manners or conduct a social blunder	113
183197836	opportunist	someone who makes a practice of taking advantage of circumstances to futher his or her own selfs intersts	114
183197837	enjoin	to direct ororder: to prohibit or restrain	115
183197838	fustian	inflated or pretentious language in speech or writing	116
183197839	inhibit	to restrain or hold back to hinder or arrest to prohibit	117
183197840	fulminate	to denounce or condemn vehementaly	118
183197841	obsession	a persistent preoccupation woth an idea feeling or desire	119
183234408	aphorism	a terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle	120
183234409	connotation	the nonliteral associative meaning of word the implied suggested meaning	121
183234410	ambiguity	the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a word phrase sentence or passage	122
183234411	polysyndeton	addition of conjuctions in succesive words or clauses	123
183234412	denotation	the strict literal dictionary definition of a word devoid of emotion attitude or color	124
183234413	prose	one of the major divisions of gnre which includes fiction and non fiction	125
183234414	asyndeton	the subtraction of conjuctions between words, phrasses or clauses	126
183234415	rhetorical modes	this flexible term describes the variety the conventions and the purposes of the major kinds of righting exposition argumentation description narration	127
183234416	anaphora	the repitition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases clauses or sentences	128
183234417	didactic	instructive in the way of ethics or morals	129
183234418	conceit	a figure of speech which makes an unusual and sometimes elaborately sustained comparision between to dissimilar objects	130
183234419	meiosis	a rhetorical figure by which something is referred to in terms less important than it deserves.....such as this fatal wound is jus a scratch	131
183234420	ellipsis	three periods(....) which indicate the ommision of words or a thought or a quotation	132
183234421	antithesis	a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas words clauses or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure	133
183234422	genre	the major catergory into which a literary work fits	134
183234423	motif	a recurring important idea or image: differs from the theme in that it can be expressed as a single word or fragmentary phrase while a them usually is expressed as a completesentence	135
183234424	zeugma	use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although its use only is grammatically correct with only one for ex: He caried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.	136
183234425	isocolon	a succession of phrases of approxiamately equal length and structure " The bigger they are, the harder they fall"	137
183234426	logos	in classic rethoric, the means of persuasion by demostration of the truth, real or apparent	138
183234427	trope	rhetorical device that produces a shift in the meanings of words- sixteenth - century rhetorician Peter Ramus identified four major tropes: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.	139
183234428	pathos	means of persuasion in classical rethoric that appeals to the audience's emotions	140
183234429	ethos	persuasion appeal based on the projected character of the speaker or narrator	141
183234430	harmartia	a term coined by Aristotle to describe "some error or frality" that brings about misfortune for a tragic hero	142
183234431	catharsis	meaning "purgation" this describes the release of the emotions of pity and fear by the audience at the end of a tragedy	143
183234432	hubris	excessive pride or self confidence that leads a protagonist to disregard a divine warningor to violate an important moral law	144
183234433	in media res	a term used to describe the common strategy of beggining a story in the middle of the action	145
183234434	Bildingsroman	a german word means a novel of formation that is a novel of someone's gorwth from childhood to maturity	146
183234435	elegy	poem dealing with the subject-matter common to the early greek and romans- complaints about love sustained formal lamentation or somber meditations	147
183234436	epistolary	taking the form of a letter or actuallyconsisting of a letter written to another	148
183234437	deductive	the process of logic in which a thinker takes a rule for a large general catergory and assumes that specific individual examples fitting within that general catergory obey the same rule	149
183234438	epigraph	a quotation at the beginning of the poem short story book chapter or other piece of literature	150
183234439	fallacy	an argument that isnt based on sound logic and doesnt logically follow	151
183234440	syllogism	a form of deductive reasoning in which given certain ideas or facts other ideas or facts must follow	152
183234441	maxim	a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth	153
183234442	idyll	a lyric poem or passage that describes an ideal place or life	154
183234443	exegesis	a detailed analysis or interpretation of a work of pros or poetry	155
183234444	archetype	an abstract or ideal conception of a type; a perfectly typical example: original odel or form	156
183234445	bathos	insincere or overdone sentimentality	157
183234446	versimilitude	similar to the truth: the qualify of realism in the work that persuades readers that they are getting a vision of life as it is	158
183234447	anachronism	a person scene or other element that fails to correspond with an appropriate time or era	159
183234448	non sequitur	a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before	160
183234449	wit	quickness of intellect and the power and talent for saying brilliant things that surprise and delight by there unexpectedness	161
183234450	eponymous	a term for the title character of a work or literture (Hamlet)	162
183234451	burlesque	a work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation	163
183234452	bombastic	ostentatiously loftly in style	164
183234453	stylistic devices	a general term referring to diction syntax tone figurative language and all other elements that contribute to the "style" or manner of a given piece of discourse	165
183234454	cynic	a person who believes all people of motivated by selfishness. a person whos outlook is scornfully and habitually negative	166
183234455	farce	a comedy that contains and extravagent and nonsensical disregard of seriouness although it may have a serious scornful purpose	167
183234456	pun	a humorous play on words, using similar sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings	168
183234457	loose sentence	a sentence that follow sthe customary word order of english sentences...subject/verb/object. the main idea of sentence is presented first and followed by one or more subordinate clauses	169
183234458	voice	the real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker	170
183234459	epiphany	a sudden or intuitive insight or preception into the reality or central meaning of something usually ought on by a simple or common occurence	171
183234460	expose	a piece of writing faults frailities or other shortcomings	172
183234461	metacognition	monitoring your own thoughts as you encouter ideas and facts presented to you in written form	173
183234462	epistrophe	the repition of a word or words as the end of two or more succcessive verses clauses or sentences	174
183234463	anachronism	a person or scene or elemtn that fails to correspond with appropriate time or era	175
183234464	antihero	a protagonist of literary work who does not embody the traditional qualities of a hero	176
183234465	anotation	a brief explanation summary or evaluation of a text or work of literature	177
183234466	doppelganger	ghostly counterpart of a living person or an alter ego	178
183234467	coherence	quality of a piece of writing of which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea theme or organizing principle	179
183234468	aesthetic	pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or form	180
183234469	imperative	a sentence or word that relays a command	181
183234470	digression	the portion of discourse that wanders or departs from the main subject or topic	182