AP Language 41-46 Flashcards
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| 6006808794 | Adage | a short, pointed and memorable saying based on facts, and is considered a veritable truth by the majority of people. An adage expresses a general fact or truth about life. "God helps those who help themselves" | 0 | |
| 6006832444 | Pedantic | "to teach or to act as pedagogue." Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism,accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant and ostentatious show of learning | 1 | |
| 6006849206 | Flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness Syn: Cute, facetious,smart | 2 | |
| 6006859258 | Evocative | the use of language that "suggest" meanings other than the denotative. Language that connects with emotions or feelings not associated with the actual meaning of a word | 3 | |
| 6006881744 | Syntactical Inversion | Literary style and rhetorical the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence,as,in English the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies a verb before its subject | 4 |