AP Literature Terms Flashcards

5957699522	Expedient	Promoting some desired outcome; suitable for a purpose	0
5957705785	Anarchist	Person who rebels against established order	1
5957713236	Duplicity	Double-Dealing, hypocrisy	2
5957719754	Unwarranted	Unjustified, Lacking authorization	3
5957725906	Prodigal	Wasteful, Reckless with money	4
5957735081	Allegory	Story that can be understood literally and symbolically	5
5957737374	Anecdote	Brief story of an individual or incident	6
5957737375	Aphorism	A Brief saying embodying a moral	7
5957739262	Dialect	Nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features	8
5959805392	Candor	Frankness	9
5959807888	Humane	Kind	10
5959811540	Exonerate	To acquit, to free from guilt or blame	11
5959818278	Seclusion	Isolation, solitude	12
6005699823	Sectarian	Relating to a religious faction or subgroup, narrow or limited	13
6005706028	Fanaticism	Excessive zeal or enthusiasm	14
6005738120	Animosity	An active enmity or hatred	15
6005741251	Criterion	A standard used in judging	16
6005747502	Succinct	Brief, terse, compact	17
6005750848	Distend	To expand, to swell out	18
6005754540	Elated	Overjoyed, in high spirits	19
6005774123	Antagonistic	Hostile, opposed	20
6005782912	Embroyonic	Undeveloped, rudimentary	21
6005788532	Immutable	Unchanging, unalterable	22
6005801107	Anaphora	Repetition of word, phrase clause at beginning of successive clauses or sentences	23
6005817926	Asyndeton	The omission of conjunction that would ordinarily join word	24
6005839750	Caesura	A strong pause within a line of poetry	25
6005847221	Free verse	Verse with no regular meter, rhyme, or length	26
6005859649	Humor	Appealing to an audience by being comical or amusing	27
6005868408	Parable	Brief story to illustrate lesson	28
6005875470	Understatement	Deliberate representation of something as less than it is	29