AP Literature - Week of 11/14 Flashcards

5432097761	pious	adj. devoutly religious	0
5432097763	mirth	n. gladness and merriment usually accompanied by laughter	1
5432100820	conscientious	adj. diligent and careful	2
5432104305	melancholy	n. dark sadness	3
5432110766	false	adj. deliberately untrue; said or done to fool or deceive someone	4
5432147703	frivolous	adj. of little importance, not worthy of serious attention; not meant seriously	5
5432153698	fraudulence	n. obtained for criminal deception. Forgery for material gain.	6
5432159906	incorrigible	adj. not able to be corrected; beyond control	7
5432164415	charlatan	n. a fake; fraud; imposter; cheat	8
5432167388	seditious	adj. resistant to lawful authority; having the purpose of overthrowing an established government; treasonous	9
5432176464	didactic	adj. intended to teach	10
5432178937	gluttony	n. overindulgence in food or drink	11
5432181649	chastise	v. to inflict physical punishment as a means of correction; to scold severely	12
5432190005	recapitulate	v. to review a series of facts; to sum up "recap"	13
5432193764	anecdote	n. a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person; it is used to illustrate a point.	14
5432203315	paradigm	n. model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc.	15
5432220684	versification	n. the act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.	16
5432224459	heroic couplet	n. a couplet consisting of two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter and written in an elevated style	17
5432227536	irreverent	adj. sacrilegious; lacking proper respect or seriousness; disrespectful	18
5432240713	rhyme royale	n. seven-line iambic pentameter stanza, with the rhyme scheme ABABBCC, sometimes ending with a hexameter line	19