AP Language Set 3 Flashcards
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| 3163750766 | 31. Belles-lettres | - Literature regarded as a fine art, esp. as having a purely aesthetic function. Light and elegant literature, esp. that which is excessively refined, characterized by aestheticism, and minor in subject, substance, or scope. | 0 | |
| 3163756315 | 32. Bibliography | - A list of source materials that are used or consulted I the preparation of a work or that are referred to in the text | 1 | |
| 3163759916 | 33. Bombast | - Speech too pompous for an occasion; pretentious words. | 2 | |
| 3163763558 | 34. Cacophony | - Harsh discordance of sound; dissonance: a cacophony of hoots, cackles, and wails. | 3 | |
| 3163767772 | 35. Canon | - A fundamental principle or general rule: the canons of good behavior. | 4 | |
| 3163770719 | 36. Caricature | - A picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn. | 5 | |
| 3163783503 | Carpe Diem | - Latin. Seize the day; enjoy the present, as opposed to placing all hope in the future. | 6 | |
| 3163786375 | 38. Character | - A person portrayed in an artistic piece, such as a drama or novel. | 7 | |
| 3163788684 | 39. Chiasmus | - A rhetorical device in which words or phrases in the first part are reversed in the second part. Structurally, the chiasmus can be represented AB//BA. Compare this to the synchises, in which the elements of the first part are maintained in the second part, in the structure AB??AB. (lesson 8) | 8 | |
| 3163791381 | 40. Chronological order | - A sequence according to time of occurrence. | 9 | |
| 3163794636 | 41. Circumlocution | - A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. | 10 | |
| 3163797378 | 42. Claim | - A statement of a position; a stand or thesis. | 11 | |
| 3163800423 | 43. Classic | - An artist or artistic production considered a standard. A work that is honored as definitive in its field: His handbook on mushrooms is a classic. (classical, classicism) | 12 | |
| 3163803327 | 44. Clause | - Grammar. A syntactic construction containing a subject and predicate and forming part of a sentence or constituting a whole simple sentence. | 13 | |
| 3163805052 | Climactic order | - The order in which items are arranged in sequence according to their importance, with the most important on last. (lesson 12) | 14 |