AP Literature Unit 10 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 5299598152 | Enormity | great wickedness or evil; the Holocaust | 0 | |
| 5299598153 | Entomology | study of insects | 1 | |
| 5299598154 | Environment | all of the surroundings of an organism | 2 | |
| 5299598155 | Ephemeral | lasting for a short period of time | 3 | |
| 5299598156 | Epicurean | philosophy of life that says to enjoy the good things in life | 4 | |
| 5299598157 | Equanimity | feeling of peace or calmness | 5 | |
| 5299598158 | Eschew | to avoid something; to stay away from something due to it being wrong or dangerous | 6 | |
| 5299598159 | Essence | true or essential nature of a thing | 7 | |
| 5299598160 | Ethereal | not substantial or real; mystical | 8 | |
| 5299598161 | Eulogy | speech in praise of someone who died | 9 | |
| 5299598162 | Fable | story typically involving animal characters that represents a moral | 10 | |
| 5299598163 | Farce | comic parody involving the use of slapstick (physical) humor | 11 | |
| 5299598164 | Figurative Language | any language not meant to be taken literally | 12 | |
| 5299598165 | Figure of Speech | metaphor; simile; personification | 13 | |
| 5299598166 | Flashback | interrupting the present action to bring up a scene from the past to inform the reader of background information | 14 |