AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

2820575647	Amiable	Having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities, friendly, sociable	0
2820575648	Elevated	Elated or joyful, showing a joyful personality	1
2820575649	Sprightly	Animated, vivacious, or gay; lively	2
2820575650	Contented	Feeling or showing satisfaction with one's possessions, status, or situation	3
2820575651	Exuberant	Very lively, happy, or energetic: filled with energy and enthusiasm	4
2820575652	Jubilant	Feeling or expressing great joy: very happy	5
2820575653	Allegory	A form of extended metaphor in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative are equated with meanings that lie outside the narrative itself	6
2820575654	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds	7
2820575655	Anachronism	Something out of its normal fime	8
2820575656	Anadiplosis	The repetition of the last word or phrase from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next. Often combined with climax	9
2864818627	enraptured	Delight beyond measure	10
2864820047	Whimsical	Given to fanciful notions; erratic and unpredictable	11
2864821585	Accomodating	Fitting in with someone's wishes or demands; obliging; easy to deal with	12
2864823648	Cordial	Welcoming, warm and friendly	13
2864824567	Indulgent	Permissive; easygoing; tolerant	14
2864827915	Solicitous	Characterized by showing concern, considerate	15
2864829387	Gracious	Courteous, kind, and pleasant	16
2864831977	Analogy	Illustration of an idea by means of a more familiar idea that is similar or parallel to it	17
2864835535	Anaphora	The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses or paragraphs	18
2864839564	Anastrophe	Word order is reversed or rearranged	19
2864840715	Antagonist	The character of force with creates conflict for the protagonist in a narratic	20
2864843245	Antithesis	A figure of speech characterized by the strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences or ideas	21
2864918101	Allusion	The mention of a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	22
2879933907	Ardent	Enthusiastic or passionate, fervent or fiery	23
2879935303	Feverish	Filled with excess energy, Marked by intense agitation, emotion or activity	24
2879936919	Earnest	Resulting from or showing sincere and intense conviction; serious; solemn; humorless	25
2879939981	Rapturous	Characterized by, feeling, or expressing great pleasure or enthusiasm; ecstatic; joyful	26
2879943503	Impassioned	Filled with or showing great emotion; emotional; heartfelt; earnest; sincere	27
2879946060	Vigorous	Strong, healthy, and full or energy	28
2879948241	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which a speaker directly addresses an inanimate object or an absent or a personified quality	29
2879957470	Archetype	A term applied to an image, a descriptive detail, a plot pattern, or a character type that occurs frequently in literature	30
2879961292	Assonance	The repetition of vowel sounds filled by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables	31
2879965285	Asyndeton	Occurs when the conjunctions that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence	32
2879973348	Bathos	Fake or forced emotion that is often humorous	33
2941817776	Blank verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	34
2941820778	Catharsis	A moral and spiritual cleansing; an empathetic identification with others	35
2941823465	Characterization	The act of creating and developing a character	36
2941824227	Chiasmus	Grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words	37
2941827802	Climax	The highest point of tension; a turning point in a literary work	38
2941829717	Amorous	Strongly moved by love	39
2941830472	Sensual	Arousing pleasure of the senses	40
2941832225	Erotic	Arousing desire or excitement (relating to sex)	41
2941834746	Fanciful	Showing imagination	42
2941835953	Meditative	Absorbed in meditation or considered thought	43
2941838254	Serene	Calm, peaceful, and untroubled	44
3031253966	Admonitory	Giving or conveying a warning or reprimand	45
3031256245	Frank	Direct and unreserved in speech	46
3031257990	Preoccupied	Completely engrossed in a thought other than those that should be a focus	47
3031262505	Incredulous	Disinclined or indisposed to believe	48
3031264122	Oracular	Prophetic but alsonconfusing	49
3031266935	Unequivocal	Indisputable, clear, having only one possible meaning	50
3031270226	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter	51
3031273714	Denotation	The dictionary meaning of a word	52
3031275573	Dialect	The form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group	53
3031278349	Dialogue	A conversation between two characters	54
3031279804	Diction	Word choice	55
3087981765	Candid	Truthful and straight forward, frank, blunt, not rehearsed	56
3087982832	Didactic	Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive, in the manner of a teacher	57
3087986158	Indignant	Feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment	58
3087987623	Probing	Seeking to uncover information about someone or something	59
3087988491	Studied	Knowledgeable	60
3087989347	Insinuating	To suggest or hint in an indirect and unpleasant way, suggesting, hinting	61
3087991321	Direct characterizating	Direct statement by the author of a character's traits	62
3087992209	Dramatic irony	A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true	63
3087993806	Dramatic monologue	A narrative poem in which one character speaks of one or more others who do not reply. The one character's speech will reveal all the elements of a story	64
3087997961	Epanalepsis	Repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter. More strictly, repetition at the end of a line, phrase, or clause	65
3088001325	Epic	A long narrative poem about a central hero who embodies the values of a particularly society	66
3087984580	Pensive	Engages in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought, dreamily thoughtful	67
3228733190	solemn	formal and dignified; not cheerful or smiling	68
3228736084	wary	feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems; watchful	69
3228740348	temperate	showing moderation or self-restraint	70
3228744810	imperturbable	unable to be upset or excited	71
3228760707	prudent	acting with or showing care and thought for the future	72
3228763946	nonchalant	feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed	73
3228775122	epiphany	A sudden understanding or realization which prior to this time was not thought of or understood	74
3228784197	epistrophe	Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentence with the same word or words	75
3228788696	ethos	The character of the speaker or writers as reflected in speech or writing	76
3228820140	euphemism	A device where being indirect replaces directness to avoid unpleasantness	77
3228823853	exposition	In the plot of a story or drama, it is the part of the work that includes the characters, the setting, and the basic situation	78
3260520961	Blasé	Unimpressed or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before	79
3260524280	Dry	Bare or lacking adornment	80
3260526666	Stoical	Enduring pain and hardship without showing one's feelings or complaining	81
3260529323	Languid	Weak or faint from illness or fatigue; slow and relaxed	82
3260532398	Vacant	Having or showing no intelligent or interest	83
3260537295	Resigned	Having accepted something unpleasant that one can not do anything about	84
3260541161	Expository essay	An essay which gives information, discusses ideas, or explains a process	85
3260548147	Flashback	A section of a literary work that interrupts the sequence of events to relate and event from an earlier time	86
3260559994	Flat character	A character to whom the author has give only one or two personality traits	87
3260563253	Foil	A character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of the protagonist or of some other character by providing a strong contrast	88
3260568533	Foreshadowing	The use in a literary work of clues that suggests events that have yet to occur	89