ap literature Flashcards
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| 7387123081 | aesthetic | concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty | 0 | |
| 7387123082 | allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning (symbol) | 1 | |
| 7387123083 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words | 2 | |
| 7387123084 | Allusions | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. | 3 | |
| 7387123085 | aloof | not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant | 4 | |
| 7387123086 | Analogous | comparable | 5 | |
| 7387123087 | anguish | Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment | 6 | |
| 7387123088 | antiquity | the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages. | 7 | |
| 7387123089 | antithesis | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 8 | |
| 7387123090 | ascertain | find out for certain; be sure of | 9 | |
| 7387123091 | aspiration | a hope or ambition of achieving something | 10 | |
| 7387123092 | bemused | confused; bewildered | 11 | |
| 7387123093 | bereaved | deprived or left desolate, especially through death | 12 | |
| 7387123094 | candor | honesty, frankness | 13 | |
| 7387123095 | Colloquial | used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary | 14 | |
| 7387123096 | consecration | the act of making or declaring something, typically a church, sacred | 15 | |
| 7387123097 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 16 | |
| 7387123098 | Contemptuous | showing contempt; scornful | 17 | |
| 7387123099 | deplore | to feel or express regret or disapproval | 18 | |
| 7387123100 | diction | word choice | 19 | |
| 7387123101 | Didactic | Instructive;intended to teach | 20 | |
| 7387123102 | dissipation | wasteful spending, squandering; to spread out and become less concentrated | 21 | |
| 7387123103 | dramatize | 1. to express or represent vividly, emotionally, or strikingly 2. to put into a form suitable for acting on stage | 22 | |
| 7387123104 | epic simile | A simile developed over several lines of verse | 23 | |
| 7387123105 | Equivocation | the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself | 24 | |
| 7387123106 | exposition | a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory | 25 | |
| 7387123107 | gregarious | sociable, outgoing | 26 | |
| 7387123108 | imagery | visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. | 27 | |
| 7387123109 | implication | an idea that is communicated indirectly, through a suggestion or hint | 28 | |
| 7387123110 | infatuated | 29 |