AP Literature Vocabulary Flashcards

2420921812	Anaphora	The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines	0
2420923526	Ambivalent	Uncertain which side to choose	1
2420925867	Surreptitiously	To do something sneakily (mostly to avoid scandal)	2
2420929527	Admonition	Warning or lesson to remember	3
2420932552	Supercilious	Haughty, prideful, arrogant	4
2420933337	Elegiac	Sorrowful, having mournful quality	5
2420936281	Denigrate	Minimize or slander importance	6
2421073423	Colloquial	Informal language not used in academic writing	7
2421073424	Didactic	Speech intended to teach others	8
2421074180	Equivocal	To accept both opinions during an argument	9
2421075403	Vacillate	To waver between opinions	10
2421075404	Antiquity	The quality of old age	11
2421076578	Tercet Stanzas	Three lines in a stanza	12
2421076579	Rapturous	An expression of pure joy	13
2421077580	Tactile Imagery	Imagery of the sense of touch	14
2421077581	Antithesis	Something that is a direct opposite to something else	15
2421077582	Refrains	Repetition of the lines in a poem	16
2421078829	Enjambment	The run on of a thought from one line to the next	17
2421078830	Juxtapose	Things put close together for contrast	18
2421081542	Abject	Miserable, without hope	19
2421082249	Despondent	Depressed	20
2421083067	Mendacious	Untruthful	21
2421083965	Pompous	Overly self-important speech and manner	22
2421086029	Idiosyncratic	Peculiar and eccentric	23
2421088502	Ubiquitous	Being present amongst everyone	24
2421090854	Dearth	An insufficient quantity or number	25
2421093345	Pragmatic	Concerned with practical matters	26
2421095019	Usurp	To seize control of something in a violent way	27
2421097011	Consecrate	Dedicate to a particular purpose or service	28
2421098620	Unscrupulous	Not honest or fair. Also a lack of attention to detail	29
2421100190	Rapaciousness	Always wanting more money, or more than deserved	30
2453759925	Pagan	Not religious compared to the generally accepted religion	31
2453872071	Vicar	Representative of a bishop	32
2453874643	Capricious	A sudden change in mood or behavior	33
2453878669	Complacency	Self-satisfaction	34
2453880494	Pious	Devoted to religion	35
2453885203	Ascetic	Severe self-discipline and abstinence from luxury	36
2453889837	Euphemism	To say something in a kind way (sometimes kinder than warranted)	37
2453892541	Pedantic	Overly concerned with facts	38
2453895118	Grandiloquently	To be said or expressed pompously	39
2453905984	Dispensation	Special rule or order for one person or simply the general rules of the time	40
2496167436	Frenetic	Energetic and uncontrolled	41
2496168279	Non Sequitur	When one idea does not follow. When there is a break in reasoning.	42
2496170365	Tumultuous	Loud and confused noisemaking	43
2496174452	Obsolescence	Becoming unimportant or obsolete	44
2496176186	Knell	A funeral bell ringing	45
2496177501	Sestina	A poem of six six-line stanzas and a final triplet	46
2500238551	Blank Verse	Unrhymed iambic pentameter (like Shakespeare)	47
2500241665	Caesura	A pause within a line of poetry. This can be a pause in thought, or an inserted exclamation point, etc.	48
2500249342	Free Verse	When there is no rhyme or rhythm to a poem	49
2500254931	Metonymy	Using another thing to represent what you are really talking about ('the pen is mightier than the sword' or 'the crown' for royalty)	50
2500262718	Soliloquy	A speech given when no other character is onstage (given to the audience)	51
2500264506	Apostrophe	When a speech is given to someone not present	52