AP Language Flashcards
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| 7703686930 | carping (adj) | naggingly critical (bleating) | 0 | |
| 7703686931 | Churlish (adj) | having a bad disposition (peevish) | 1 | |
| 7703686932 | Chagrined | embarrassed or humiliated (shamed) | 2 | |
| 7703686933 | Burlesque | involving a moching treatment of a serious matter (sarcasm) | 3 | |
| 7703686934 | Contentious | quarrelsome or argumentative (controversial) | 4 | |
| 7703686935 | Capricious (adj) | erratic and variable (unstable) | 5 | |
| 7703686936 | Climax | arrangement of words in order of increasing importance | 6 | |
| 7703686937 | Hendiadys | expressing a single idea by two nouns instead of a noun and adj. (ex. I do not like the rain and the weather.) | 7 | |
| 7703686938 | Ellipsis | in a sentence, the omission of a word or words (ex. The average person thinks he Is not) | 8 | |
| 7703686939 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses (ex. Perch are inexpensive, cod are cheap, trout is abundance, salmon is best.) | 9 |