AP Vocabulary Flashcards

6386828119	Ballad		0
6386834693	Analogy	a comparison between two things	1
6386838837	Sarcasm	The use of irony to mock	2
6386842211	Synecdoche	A part of something that refers to the whole	3
6386914232	Oxymoron	Use of two contradictory terms	4
6386919791	Allegory	A story where people or things have symbolic meaning	5
6386926315	Anecdote	a short account or story	6
6386930850	Paradox	A self-contradictory statement	7
6386937849	Metaphor	a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else and makes a comparison	8
6386943517	Catharsis	The process of releasing and providing relief from emotions	9
6386946349	Hyperbole	Overstatement	10
6386952760	Understatement	A writer or speaker makes the situation seem less important than it really is	11
6386957935	Situational Irony	the outcome is not what was intended	12
6386963235	Verbal Irony / Sarcasm	someone says the opposite of what they mean	13
6386968379	Dramatic Irony	the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character	14
6386977284	Pathos	convincing through use of emotion	15
6386984143	Logos	convincing through use of reason	16
6386986139	Ethos	convincing through use of morals/ethics	17
6387009147	Impressionism in writing	placing more responsibility on the reader to form his or her own conclusions about events within the novel	18
6387013245	Personification	giving human-like qualities to non-human things	19
6387016498	Antithesis	contrast of ideas	20
6387023383	Symbol	something that stands for something else	21
6387027221	Duality	opposition or contrast between two aspects of something	22
6387037286	Tactile	can be sensed with touch	23
6387041415	Auditory	can be sensed with hearing	24
6387046267	Allusion	an indirect reference to something	25
6387052010	Fusion	the joining of two or more things together to form a single entity	26
6387066372	Philosophy	the study of the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence	27
6387362281	Extensive	great, vast	28
6387367491	Egotism	self-importance	29
6387372704	Superficial	surface, lack of depth	30
6387412773	Inversion	reversal of position or relationship	31
6387475465	Intellectual rigor	is having clarity in thinking and an ability to think carefully and deeply	32
6387489841	Bulwark	defensive wall, fortification	33
6387497658	Animistic	believing everything has a soul	34
6387542607	Quasi-religious	resembling something that is religious or sacred	35
6387555190	Pretentious	pompous, self-important	36
6387564573	Romanticism	emphasis on innocence, nature, beauty, and imagination	37
6387582633	Proof	a trial print of something	38
6387588410	Endorse	to declare support of	39
6387605200	Conventional	what is considered "normal"	40
6387622192	Imagery	visually descriptive language	41
6388139897	Postmodernism	characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator	42
6435705674	Diction	word choice	43
6435707592	Syntax	sentence structure	44
6435709789	Detail	description	45
6435732959	Voice	the author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique, and which conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character; or the characteristic speech and thought patterns of the narrator of a work of fiction.	46