AP Literature Vocabulary and Terms List Six Flashcards
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| 5168462672 | encumber | v. Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult. | 0 | |
| 5168465096 | exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. The introduction to a novel or story that usually introduces the characters or setting. | 1 | |
| 5168465097 | gambol | v. to run or jump around playfully | 2 | |
| 5168466782 | hospice | n. a home providing care for the sick, especially the terminally ill | 3 | |
| 5168468853 | inexorable | adj. impossible to stop or prevent | 4 | |
| 5168468854 | languid | adj. Weak or faint from illness or fatigue. | 5 | |
| 5168468855 | moribund | adj. the terminal decline of something | 6 | |
| 5168470698 | ostentatious | adj. Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to grab your attention | 7 | |
| 5168472513 | perspicuity | adj. clearly expressed and easily understood; lucid | 8 | |
| 5168472514 | profligate | recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources. | 9 | |
| 5168474067 | METAPHOR | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. | 10 | |
| 5168476625 | METONYMY | n. the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 11 | |
| 5168476626 | ONOMATOPOEIA | The word represents the sound it identifies | 12 | |
| 5168477860 | OXYMORON | Where two opposite words are joined to form an effect. | 13 | |
| 5168477861 | PARADOX | a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory. | 14 |