AP Language & Composition Exam Flashcards

Vocab, tone, rhetorical terms.

4406687535	acerbic	bitter, sharp in taste or temper	0
4406687866	strident	loud and harsh	1
4406688141	ambivalence	conflicting feelings; uncertainty	2
4406688760	conciliatory	making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill	3
4406689198	irate	very angry	4
4406689199	judicious	sensible; showing good judgement	5
4406690110	self-deprecating	belittling oneself; excessively modest	6
4406691283	capricious	impulsive and unpredictable	7
4406695234	feigned	pretended	8
4406695464	poignant	emotionally moving	9
4406695703	reverent	respectful	10
4406697326	indifference	apathy; lack of feeling	11
4406698487	disdain	intense dislike	12
4406698836	facetious	humorous	13
4406699221	flippant	disrespectful	14
4406700090	pedantic	boringly scholarly or academic	15
4406700763	petty	unimportant	16
4406700764	benevolent	kind	17
4406701212	effusive	gushing; demonstrative	18
4406702117	elegiac	sorrow	19
4406702453	detached	disinterested, unconcerned, distant	20
4406704257	aloof	distant	21
4406704625	didactic	instructive, educational	22
4406709652	allegory	a story in which the people, places, and things represent general concepts or moral qualities	23
4406710668	allusion	a brief reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature	24
4406711540	anticlimax	a sudden drop from important thought, for humorous effect	25
4406712753	argumentation	exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it; persuasion through reason	26
4406714586	irony	a humorous expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the opposite of their usual meaning	27
4406715863	inverted syntax	basically Yoda	28
4406716668	treatise	manifesto	29
4406717091	parable	a short story with a moral lesson	30
4406717378	paradox	a statement which seems self-contradictory, but may be true in fact	31
4406719804	syllogism	a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a logical conclusion is drawn from them	32