AP Literature Vocab Flashcards
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| 8643108194 | 1. (TOD) Epistle | a specially long formal letter | 0 | |
| 8643108195 | 1. (WOD) Wheedle | (v) to influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing or flattering; sweet talk | 1 | |
| 8643108196 | 2. (TOD) Authorial Voice | your tone, choice of content/words | 2 | |
| 8643108197 | 2. (WOD) Nondescript | (adj) lacking distinct or individual characteristics, dull or uninteresting | 3 | |
| 8643108198 | 3. (TOD) Diction | the choice of words and phrases in speech or wiriting | 4 | |
| 8643108199 | 4. (TOD) Remix | to reassemble or revive a form of art | 5 | |
| 8643108200 | 3. (WOD) Condone | (v) to accept or allow behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive to continue | 6 | |
| 8643108201 | 5. (TOD) Challenge | when a person or group of people have attempted to have a book removed from a school or library | 7 | |
| 8643108202 | 6. (TOD) Ban | free access is not permitted | 8 | |
| 8643108203 | 7. (TOD) Censor | reviewing a book for inappropriate things | 9 | |
| 8643108204 | 4. (WOD) Bowlderize | (v) to edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | 10 | |
| 8643108205 | 5. (WOD) Sacrilege | (n) blasphemous behavior, the act of depriving something of its sacred character | 11 | |
| 8643108206 | 6. (WOD) Revile | (v) to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak abusively (in print) | 12 | |
| 8643108207 | 7. (WOD) Proliferate | (v) to grow rapidly | 13 | |
| 8643108208 | 8. (TOD) Etymology | the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history | 14 | |
| 8643108209 | 9. (TOD) Prefix | an affix placed before a word | 15 | |
| 8643108210 | 10. (TOD) Root | the origin | 16 | |
| 8643108211 | 11. (TOD) Suffix | an affix placed at the end of a word | 17 | |
| 8643108212 | 8. (WOD) Subvert | (v) to undermine the power or authority of an established institution | 18 | |
| 8643108213 | 12. (TOD) Word Tree | a group of similar words that share a common root to prefixes and suffixes | 19 | |
| 8643108214 | 9. (WOD) Facade | (n) the front of a building, a superficial personality or appearance | 20 | |
| 8643108215 | 10. (WOD) Disconsolate | (adj) without solace, unhappy, gloomy | 21 | |
| 8643108216 | 11. (WOD) Quagmire | (n) an area of foggy ground- a bog, a situation that is difficult to escape | 22 | |
| 8643108217 | 12. (WOD) Ingratiate | (v) to bestow through control or manipulation | 23 | |
| 8643108218 | 13. (WOD) Lugubrious | (adj) mournful in an exaggerated manner | 24 | |
| 8643108219 | 14. (WOD) Festoon | (n) a chain or garland of flowers or other decorations | 25 | |
| 8643108220 | 15. (WOD) Transgression | (n) an act of transgressing or violating the law | 26 | |
| 8643108221 | 13. (TOD) Neologism | a word or phrase which is new to the language; one which is newly coined | 27 | |
| 8643108222 | 16. (WOD) Amalgamate | (v) to mix a combination, to combine | 28 | |
| 8643108223 | 17. (WOD) Ineffable | (adj) defying expression or description | 29 | |
| 8643108224 | 14. (TOD) Modernism | major artists questioned and reunited their art forms, desire to break from past, rejecting literary traditions seemed gentle, break through and global violence | 30 | |
| 8643108225 | 15. (TOD) Stream of Consciousness | style that some modern writers use to portray workings of a characters mind, catalog, describe thoughts, impressions, ideas or explanations, present what is going on in a mind | 31 | |
| 8643108226 | 16. (TOD) Alienation | seperation resulting from hostility | 32 | |
| 8643108227 | 17. (TOD) Existentialism | a school of thought that claims people are responsible for creating meaning out of life, since world is meaningless | 33 | |
| 8643108228 | 18. (TOD) Nihilism | complete rejection of moral values and religious beliefs | 34 | |
| 8643108229 | 19. (TOD) Primitivism | genre characteristic of (or imitator or primitive artists or children) untamed | 35 | |
| 8643108230 | 20. (TOD) Typography | art of putting words into print, process involving choosing letters, arranging the, printing them | 36 | |
| 8643108231 | 21. (TOD) Imagism | movement in 20th century English, American poetry that sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images | 37 | |
| 8643108232 | 18. (WOD) Juxtapose | (v) to place side by side, usually for comparison purposes | 38 | |
| 8643108233 | 22. (TOD) Automatism | writing technique based upon the psychological theories of Freud, avoidance of conscious | 39 | |
| 8643108234 | 19. (WOD) Sardonic | (adj) disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking | 40 | |
| 8643108235 | 23. (TOD) Anaphora | repetition of word or phrase at beginning of successive clauses | 41 | |
| 8643108236 | 24. (TOD) Tone | attitude or approach that the author takes toward the work's central theme or subject | 42 | |
| 8643108237 | 20. (WOD) Evince | (v) to show or express clearly | 43 | |
| 8643108238 | 25. (TOD) Commentary | an expression of opinions or offering or explanations about an event or situation, descriptive account of are event or performance as it happens, explanatory or critical notes, explanation, interpretation | 44 | |
| 8643108239 | 26. (TOD) Parallel Structure | the repetition of chosen grammar | 45 | |
| 8643108240 | 21. (WOD) Apocryphal | (adj) doubtful authorship although widely circulated as true | 46 | |
| 8643108241 | 22. (WOD) Diffident | (adj) modest or shy due to lack or confidence | 47 | |
| 8643108242 | 27. (TOD) Metaphor | a figure of speech in which words or phrases are applied to an object or action to which is not literally applied | 48 | |
| 8643108243 | 23. (WOD) Pagoda | (n) a buddhist temple in East Asia | 49 | |
| 8643108244 | 28. (TOD) Direct Discourse | the reporting of speech by repeating the actual words of a speaker; quotations | 50 | |
| 8643108245 | 29. (TOD) Dialect | a particular form of language which is peculiar to specific regions or social groups | 51 | |
| 8643108246 | 24. (WOD) Truculently | (adj) aggressively self-assertive, harsh | 52 | |
| 8643108247 | 25. (WOD) Litany | (n) a repetitive chant, a liturgical form or prayer consisting of a series of responses | 53 | |
| 8643108248 | 30. (TOD) Epiphany | a moment of realization | 54 | |
| 8643108249 | 26. (WOD) Obstinate | (adj) stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action | 55 | |
| 8643108250 | 31. (TOD) Irony | a full significance is known to the reader but not to the character | 56 | |
| 8643108251 | 27. (WOD) Mirth | (n) amusement expressed in laughter | 57 | |
| 8643108252 | 32. (TOD) Hemingway Code for a Hero | accept no guidelines, don't make trouble for others, face reality, impose meaning on meaningless universe, contain despair by sheer will power, don't judge others, man most establish own values by facing life courageously and honestly, courage | 58 | |
| 8643108253 | 28. (WOD) Gauntlet | (n) a series of difficult experiences | 59 | |
| 8643108254 | 33. (TOD) Colloquialism | words used in familiar conversation; slang | 60 | |
| 8643108255 | 29. (WOD) Broach | (v) to make known for the first time; to introduce a new topic | 61 | |
| 8643108256 | 34. (TOD) Free Indirect Discourse | combines person and tense with indication of time and place; an attempt to capture the impressions that do not receive direct formulation as thoughts, allowing the author to jump btwn. characters | 62 | |
| 8643108257 | 30. (WOD) Odious | (adj) deserving or causing hatred, highly offensive or disquieting | 63 | |
| 8643108258 | 35. (TOD) Post-Modernism | represents departure for modernism and distrust of grand theories and ideologic, problematical relationship with any notion of art | 64 | |
| 8643108259 | 36. (TOD) Romantic Irony | instant deflation within a line, sardonic tone | 65 | |
| 8643108260 | 31. (WOD) Esoteric | (adj) understood by a chosen few | 66 | |
| 8643108261 | 32. (WOD) Gesticulate | (v) to make gestures especially in an animated manner with or instead of speech | 67 | |
| 8643108262 | 37. (TOD) Pathetic Fallacy | attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals especially in art and literature, usually weather, mirror the plot or character, set the mood of the piece | 68 | |
| 8643108263 | 38. (TOD) Allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, or thing | 69 | |
| 8643108264 | 39. (TOD) Paradox | situation, person or thing that contains contradictory features or qualities, contradiction | 70 | |
| 8643108265 | 33. (WOD) Metamorphosis | (n) a change of a thing or person into a completely different one by natural or supernatural forces | 71 | |
| 8643108266 | 40. (TOD) Iceberg Theory | The Iceberg Theory (sometimes known as the "theory of omission") is a style of writing (turned colloquialism) coined by American writer Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway believed the deeper meaning of a story should not be evident on the surface, but should shine through implicitly. | 72 | |
| 8643108267 | 41. (TOD) Ad Hominem | a response to a person's argument by attacking the person's character rather than the logic or content of the argument. | 73 | |
| 8643108268 | 42. (TOD) Nonsequitur | The Latin words non sequitur literally mean 'it does not follow," and it is a conversational and literary device, often used for comedic purposes | 74 | |
| 8643108269 | 43. (TOD) Allegory | a story in which everything stands for something else; usually conveys a moral or message. An allegory employs symbolism in the telling of a complete narrative that has an abstract meaning. | 75 | |
| 8643108270 | 44. (TOD) Symbolism | the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense | 76 | |
| 8643108271 | 45. (TOD) Trope | figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression; puns, metaphors, similies | 77 | |
| 8643108272 | 46. (TOD) Surrealism | sought to overthrow the oppressive rules of modernist society by demolishing rational thought | 78 | |
| 8643108273 | 47. (TOD) Eponym | a word derived from the name of an actual or fictional person | 79 | |
| 8643108274 | 48. (TOD) Novella | a fictional prose narrative that is longer and more complex than a short story | 80 | |
| 8643108275 | 49. (TOD) Ungezeifer | german for an unclean animal not suited for sacrifice | 81 | |
| 8643108276 | 34. (WOD) Kafkaesque | (n) of or relating to Franz Kafka, having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre or illogical quality | 82 | |
| 8643108277 | 35. (WOD) Disquietude | (n) feeling of anxiety that makes you tense and irritable | 83 | |
| 8643108278 | 36. (WOD) Betoken | (v)to be a sign of; to indicate | 84 | |
| 8643108279 | 37. (WOD) Pulchritude | (n) physical beauty, especially in a woman | 85 | |
| 8643108280 | 38. (WOD) Martyr | (n) someone who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion; one who suffers for the sake of principle | 86 | |
| 8643108281 | 39. (WOD) Garrulous | (adj) 1. excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters. 2. Wordy or diffuse | 87 | |
| 8643108282 | 40. (WOD) Duress | (n) compulsory force or threat; coercion; constraint (one is under duress) | 88 | |
| 8643108283 | 41. (WOD) Emaciated | (adj) sickly thin; malnourished | 89 | |
| 8643108284 | 42. (WOD) Gratitude | (n) thankful and gracious | 90 | |
| 8643108285 | 43. (WOD) Irreverent | (adj) showing a lack of respect for something | 91 | |
| 8643108286 | 44. (WOD) Nuanced | (n) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | 92 | |
| 8643108287 | 45. (WOD) Misogyny | (n) the hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women | 93 | |
| 8643108288 | 46. (WOD) Concomitant | (adj) following or accompanying as a consequence; going along with | 94 | |
| 8643108289 | 50. (TOD) Feminist Literary Theory | the ways in which literature reinforces the oppression of women, highlighting the issue | 95 | |
| 8643108290 | 51. (TOD) Deconstruction Critical Theory | challenges our comfortable assumptions | 96 | |
| 8643108291 | 52. (TOD) Psychoanalytic Critical Theory | read psychoanalytically to see which concepts are operating in the text | 97 | |
| 8643108292 | 53. (TOD) Marxist Critical Theory | concerns itself with class differences, economic, and otherwise, and the implications of a capitalist system | 98 | |
| 8643108293 | 54. (TOD) Historical Critical Theory | reconnect the work to the time period and the events that occurred | 99 | |
| 8643108294 | 55. (TOD) Biographical Critical Theory | the author's past life can aid the analysis of the novel/novella | 100 | |
| 8643108295 | 47. (WOD) Binary | (adj/n) something that can be broken down into two categories; dual or double | 101 | |
| 8643108296 | 48. (WOD) Multivalency | (n) the quality of having many values, appeals, or meanings | 102 | |
| 8643108297 | 49. (WOD) Eschew | (v) to avoid or stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | 103 | |
| 8643108298 | 50. (WOD) Recalcitrance | (n) the trait of being unmanageable; the habit or characteristics of being stubborn or difficult | 104 | |
| 8643108299 | 51. (WOD) Sycophantic | (adj) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | 105 | |
| 8643108300 | 52. (WOD) Subaltern | (n/adj) someone with a low ranking in a social, political, or other hierarchy | 106 | |
| 8643108301 | 53. (WOD) Jocundity | (n) a feeling of facetious merriment | 107 | |
| 8643108302 | 54. (WOD) Fecundity | (n) the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring | 108 | |
| 8643108303 | 56. (TOD) Epigraph | an engraved inscription on a building or statue; a quotation at the beginning of a piece of writing | 109 | |
| 8643108304 | 55. (WOD) Microcosm | (n) a miniature model of something | 110 | |
| 8643108305 | 56. (WOD) Macrocosm | (n) everything that exists anywhere, the big picture vs. the little picture | 111 | |
| 8643108306 | 57. (TOD) Subjectivism | the first principle of Existentialism according to Sarte, an individual chooses himself, it is impossible for men to transcend human subjectivity | 112 | |
| 8643108307 | 58. (TOD) The Existential Process | Anxiety-looking at concepts as responsible over which you have no control, Moment-recognizing your anxiety exists, Resolution-finding a solution | 113 | |
| 8643108308 | 57. (WOD) Circumspect | (adj) heedful of potential consequences | 114 | |
| 8643108309 | 59. (TOD) Quietism | inaction- a form of ignoring despair (not making things better) | 115 | |
| 8643108310 | 58. (WOD) Aquiesce | (v) to agree to something or give in | 116 | |
| 8643108311 | 59. (WOD) Avarice | (n) reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth; greed | 117 | |
| 8643108312 | 60. (TOD) The Absurd | often applied to the modern sense of human purposelessness on a universe without meaning or value. Many 20th century writers of prose fiction have stressed the absurd nation of existence. | 118 | |
| 8643108313 | 60. (WOD) Sublime | (adj) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature of style | 119 | |
| 8643108314 | 61. (WOD) Vilify | (v) to spread negative information about someone or something | 120 |