Pre-Ap vocab
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| 311958071 | allusion | a reference to a well known person, place, or thing | |
| 311958072 | abridged | shortened form of something | |
| 311958073 | prose | any writing that is not poetry or drama | |
| 311958074 | stanza/verse | Used in poetry (as a paragraph is used for prose). | |
| 311958075 | bard | a poet | |
| 311958076 | contemporary | exists the same time as we do | |
| 311958077 | hyperpole | extreme exaggertion | |
| 311958078 | literal language | language that means exactly what it says | |
| 311958079 | imagery | create an image in the readers mind | |
| 311958080 | anecdote | short story | |
| 311958081 | theme | central message from the author | |
| 311958082 | tone | authors attitude to audience or subject | |
| 311958083 | mood | feeling created in the reader by a passage | |
| 311958084 | denotation | dictonary definition of a word | |
| 311958085 | connotation | feeling from words | |
| 311958086 | diction | word choice | |
| 311958087 | imminent | likely to happen soon | |
| 311958088 | iridescent | having shifting, rainbowlike colors | |
| 311958089 | vortex | the center of a situation | |
| 311958090 | infallibility | can't fail at all | |
| 311958091 | precariously | unstable | |
| 311958092 | motif | pattern that is repeated | |
| 311958093 | microcosm | a smaller world or universe | |
| 311958094 | dilemma | when you have to make a decision and its a hard one | |
| 311958095 | human condition | positive and negative parts of life | |
| 311958096 | advocate | to stand up for something | |
| 311958097 | matriarch | woman governs the family | |
| 311958098 | patriarch | leader of the family | |
| 311958099 | patronizing | talk down to someone | |
| 311958100 | sadistic | ... | |
| 311958101 | benevolent | helping others | |
| 311958102 | adversity | going through anything thats tough | |
| 311958103 | allegory | representing an abstract or siritual meaning through concrete forms | |
| 311958104 | capitalism | ... | |
| 311958105 | communism | ... | |
| 311958106 | czar or tsar | emporor of russia | |
| 311958107 | democracy | people elect their leaders | |
| 311958108 | republic | power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote | |
| 311958109 | socialism | ... | |
| 311958110 | totalitarianism | ... | |
| 311958111 | regime | period of time a government is in power | |
| 311958112 | dystopia | bad place | |
| 311958113 | meager | iandequate | |
| 311958114 | commissioned | authority granted for an action | |
| 311958115 | oppression | exercise of power in a cruel manner | |
| 311958116 | populace | common people | |
| 311958117 | exile | a person banished from their country or home | |
| 311958118 | deportation | sent back to former homeland lawfully | |
| 311958119 | dispelled | to cause something to vanish | |
| 311958120 | morose | gloomy mood | |
| 311958121 | figurative language | having another meaning |