AP Literature Vocab Flashcards

6685055091	apprehensive	anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen	0
6685078132	placid	(of a person or animal) not easily upset or excited	1
6685078133	irate	feeling or characterized by great anger	2
6685081114	balanced sentences	a sentence that has two clauses ex: Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun.	3
6685081115	loose sentences	A loose sentence (also called a cumulative sentence) is a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases ex: She drove her car to go to the movies, and got gas	4
6685083153	periodic sentences	a stylistic device employed at the sentence level, described as one that is not complete grammatically or semantically before the final clause or phrase. ex: To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius.	5
6685083154	concrete details	identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste), such as soft, stench, red, loud, or bitter.	6
6685085596	gustatory imagery	The definition of gustatory imagery is words or pictures that make someone think of food or taste. An example of gustatory imagery is a picture of a chocolate cake making someone imagine what the cake tastes like.	7
6685085597	compound sentences	two independent sentences put together with FANBOYS	8
6685085598	complex sentences	one independent one dependent clause	9
6685088590	compound-complex sentences	A sentence consisting of at least one dependent clauses and at least two independent clauses may be called a complex-compound sentence or compound-complex sentence.	10
6685088591	anastrophe	Anastrophe is a figure of speech in which the syntactically correct order of subject, verb and object is changed. ex: potatoes, I like.	11
6685088592	epistrophe	indicates the same word returns at the end of each sentence.	12
6685091671	onomatopoeia	a word that sounds like what it represents	13
6685091672	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing.	14
6685289701	anaphora	Anaphora is the opposite of epistrophe and means the repetition of the same phrase or word at the beginning of successive sentences such as in this example	15