AP VOCAB Flashcards

5474354914	Atmosphere	The pervading tone or mood of a place, situation, or work of art	0
5474354915	Connotation	An idea of feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meanings	1
5474354916	Denotation	The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests	2
5474354917	Dialogue	Conversation between 2 or more people	3
5474354918	Epigram	A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way	4
5474354919	Irony	The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite	5
5474354920	Situational Irony	When the opposite of what is expected happens	6
5474354921	Verbal Irony	Sarcasm	7
5474354922	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows something the characters don't	8
5474354923	Sarcasm	The use of Irony to mock or convey contempt	9
5474354924	Mood	Temporary star of mind or being	10
5474354925	Narrative Voice	A related topic to think about especially important in 3rd person voice	11
5474354926	Stream of Consciousness	A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a conscious flow	12
5474354927	Point of View	A particular attitude or way of considering a matter	13
5474614154	1st Person POV	The story is narrated by one character at a time	14
5474614155	Objective POV	When the writer tells what happens without stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue	15
5474614156	Omniscient POV	A method of story telling in which the narrator tells the thoughts and feelings of all the characters	16
5474614157	Limited POV	The narrator knows only the feelings and thoughts of one character	17
5474614158	3rd Person POV	When the narrator relates all action in pronouns like "he/she"	18
5474614159	Unlimited POV	When the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in the story	19
5474614160	Flashback	A scene in a movie, novel, etc. set in time earlier than the main story	20
5474614161	Subplot	A subordinate plot in a story, novel or similar work	21
5474614162	Analogy	A comparison between 2 things typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation certification	22
5474614163	Antithesis	A person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone else	23
5474614164	Anticlimax	A disappointing end to an exciting story	24
5474614165	Aphorism	A pithy observation that contains a general truth such as "If it ain't broken, don't fix it"	25
5474614166	Asides	A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by only the audience	26
5474614167	Cliché	A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought	27
5474614168	Colloquialism	A word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically used in ordinary conversation	28
5474614169	Discourse	Written or spoken communication or debate	29
5474614170	Discursiveness	Digressing from subject to subject	30
5474614171	Enumeration	A complete, ordered listing of all items in a collectionn	31
5474614172	Epigram	A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way	32
5474614173	Neologism	A newly coined word or expression	33
5474614174	Paradox	A statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless or self-contradictory	34
5474614175	Parallelism	Use of verbal constructions in poetry or prose that corresponds in grammatical structure, sound, meaning, etc.	35
5474614176	Pathetic Fallacy	The attribution of human feelings and responses intimate things or animals	36
5474614177	Proverb	A short pithy saying in general use, stating a general truth or piece of advice	37
5474614178	Pun	A play on words	38
5474614179	Repition	Action of repeating something that has already been saifn	39
5474614180	Rhetorical Question	Asks a question that may not have an answer	40
5474614181	Stream of Consciousness	A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events	41
5474614182	Syllepsis	A figure of speech in which a word is applied to 2 others in different senses or 2 others when it only suits one grammatically	42
5474614183	Act	A main division in a play, ballet, or operas	43
5474614184	Antagonist	A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something	44
5474614185	Catastrophe	An event causing great and often sudden damage or suffering a disaster	45
5474614186	Catharsis	An emotional release	46
5474614187	Character	Personality in a story	47
5474614188	Dynamic Character	Changing character	48
5474614189	Flat Character	Only one or two character traits	49
5474614190	Round Character	Very well developed character	50
5474614191	Static Character	Unchanging character	51
5474614192	Stock Character	Stereotypical character	52
5474614193	Climax	The turning point	53
5474614194	Comic Relief	Moment that allows the audience to relax and reprieve	54
5474614195	Denouement	The resolution	55
5474614196	Epilogue	What occurs after the ending of a play, novel, etc.	56
5474614197	Exposition	What is introduced to a character, setting or backstory, etc.	57
5474614198	Falling Action	The events following the climax that lead to the denouement	58
5474614199	Hero	Character who exemplifies qualities that all strive to have	59
5474614200	Monologue	Long speech given by one person for others to hear	60
5474614201	Prologue	Backstory	61
5474614202	Rising Action	Events leading to the climax	62
5474614203	Scene	Division within an act (related to location)	63
5474614204	Soliloquy	Long speech to oneself	64
5474614205	Tragedy	A story in which the main character brings about their own downfall through flaw or lack of awareness	65
5474614206	Comedy	Outcome usually positive, humor used and more lighthearted	66
5474614207	Crisis	A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger	67
5474614208	Deus Ex Machina	When something miraculous happens to get the plot going	68
5474614209	Farce	A comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay, typically including crude characterization and improbable possibilites	69
5474614210	Foil	A person that contrasts with and emphasizes the qualities of another	70
5474614211	Hamartia	A fetal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine	71
5474614212	Hubris	Excessive pride or self confidence	72
5474614213	Tragic Flaw	Less technical word for hamartia	73
5474614214	Villian	One with evil intent or does evil for selfish reasons	74
5474614215	Blank verse	Verse of unrhymed lines	75
5474614216	Cacophony	Harsh or discordant word sounds	76
5474614217	Cadence	Balanced rhythmic flow	77
5474614218	Censura	Pattern of unstressed then stressed syllables	78
5474614219	Conceit	Conventional, logical complex metaphore	79
5474614220	Dirge	A brief hymn or song of lamentation or grief	80
5474614221	Dissonance	Intentional description of harmonic sounds or rhythms	81
5474614222	Dramatic Monologue	Speaker talks to themselves and reveals important information	82
5474614223	Epic	Long narrative poem, elevated in style and recounting the deeds of a hero	83
5524749031	Free Verse	No particular rhyme or meter	84
5524749032	Imagery	Visually descriptive or figurative language	85
5524749033	In Medias Ras	Picking up a situation in the middle of the story	86
5524749034	Persona	Character assumed by the author	87
5524749035	English Sonnet	14 line poem with 3 quatrains and a couplet	88
5524749036	Italian Sonnet	14 line poem with an octave and a sestet	89
5524749037	Allusion	An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly	90
5524749038	Apostrophe	An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically dead or absent) or thing (that is personified)	91
5524749039	Euphamism	A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh	92
5524749040	Hyperbole	Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	93
5524749041	Litotes	Ironic understatement when an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary	94
5524749042	Métaphore	A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it's not literally applicable	95
5524749043	Onomatopoeia	The information of a word from a sound associated with what is named	96
5524749044	Oxymoron	When apparent contradictory terms appear in conjunction	97
5524749045	Personification	Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects	98
5524749046	Similar	Comparison of one with with another that's is different of its kind	99
5524749047	Symbol	Represents or stands for something else, especially a material object to represent something abstract	100
5524749048	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the vice versa	101
5524749049	Understatement	Presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important	102
5524749050	Dialect	Conversation or speech	103
5524749051	Invective	Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language	104
5524749052	Inversion	Action of inverting something	105
5524749053	Satire	Use of humor, Irony, exaggeration or ridicule to expose and criticize stupidity	106
5524749054	Slang	Language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as informal	107
5524749055	Anecdote	A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	108
5524749056	Motivation	The reason behind a character's specific behavior	109
5524749057	Theme	A main idea or underlying meaning	110
5524749058	Allegory	A story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	111
5524749059	Diary	A record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting what happens	112
5524749060	Fable	A short story, typically with animals as characters, conceding a moral	113
5524749061	Genre	Category of artistic composition characterized by similarities	114
5524749062	Novel	A factitious prose narrative of book length, representing a character and action of some degrees of realism	115
5524749063	Novella	A short novel or long short story	116
5524749064	Parable	A simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson	117
5524749065	Prose	Written or spoken language in its ordinary form without material structure	118
5524749066	Verse	Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically with a rhyme	119
5524749067	Sestet	The last 6 lines of a Sonnet	120
5524749068	Stanza	A group of lines forming he basic reoccurring metrical unit	121
5524749069	Stress	The emphasis that falls on a certain syllable	122
5524749070	Trochee	A foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by a short or unstressed syllable	123
5524749071	Volta	The turn of thought	124
5524749072	Balanced Sentence	Made of 2 parts that are equal in length, importance and grammatical structure	125
5524749073	Coherence	The quality of being logical and consistent	126
5524749074	Simple	Easily understood and done with plain or basic form	127
5524749075	Compound Sentence	A sentence with more than one subject or predicate	128
5524749076	Complex Sentence	A sentence containing a subordinate clause	129
5524749077	Compound-Complex	A sentence having 2 or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses	130
5524749078	Ellipsis	The emission from speech or words that are able to be understood from contextual clues	131
5524749079	Inverted Sentence	A sentence in abnormal subject first language in which the predicate comes before the subject	132
5524749080	Loose Sentence	The main idea is elaborated by the successive addition or modifying clauses	133
5524749081	Alliteration	Repetition of the initial consonant	134
5524749082	Assonance	Religion of vowels in nearby words	135
5524749083	Consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds 2 or more times in short succession with a different vowel in between	136
5524749084	Controlling Image	Main image the writer wants the reader to perceive	137
5524749085	Couplet	Pair of rhyming lines	138
5524749086	Elegy	Formal lament in verse for the death of a person, usually ending in a consolation	139
5524749087	End-stopped Line	Thought ends at the end of a line	140
5524749088	Enjambement	Clause or syntactic unit carrying over from one line to the next	141
5524749089	Euphony	Language that is smooth, pleasant and musical	142
5524749090	Foot	Smallest repeated patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables	143
5524749091	Iamb	Pattern of unstressed followed by stressed syllables	144
5524749092	Lyric	Poem that represents musical sounds and pattern	145
5524749093	Measure	A plan of course of action taken to achieve a particular purpose	146
5524749094	Meter	Rhythmic pattern of verse	147
5524749095	Octave	8 line stanza	148
5524749096	Ode	Serious in subject, elevated in style and elaborate in stanzaic structure	149
5524749097	Pentameter	Contains 5 feet per line	150
5524749098	Quatrain	Stanza of 4 lines in a verse	151
5524749099	Refrain	Repetition of the same line after different stanzas	152
5524749100	Repetition	The action of repeating something that has already been said	153
5524749101	Rhyme	Correspondance of sound between words or the ending of words	154
5524749102	End Rhyme	When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same	155
5524749103	External Rhyme	A pattern of words that rhyme in the last word of each line in a stanza	156
5524749104	Feminine Rhyme	A rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more stressed syllables	157
5524749105	Internal Rhyme	A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of a line or in the middle of the next	158
5524749106	Masculine Rhyme	A rhyme of final stressed syllables	159
5524749107	Scansion	Analysis of verse to show its meter	160
5524749108	Anecdotal	Info based on a personal story	161
5524749109	Interlude	Brief break in time	162
5524749110	Pervasive	Spread throughout; often with negative connotation	163
5524749111	Didactic	To teach something	164
5528154970	Corpulent	(Of a person) fat, large in size	165
5528154971	Errant	Wandering, straying, misbehaving	166
5528154972	Innocuous	Not harmful or offensive	167
5528154973	Pernicious	Having a harmful effect, especially in gradual or subtle way	168
5528154974	Ubiquitous	Present, appearing, or found everywhere	169
5528154975	Clandestine	Kept secret or done secretly, especially because illicit	170
5528154976	Nostalgia	A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically associated with happiness	171
5528154977	Edification	The correction or improvement of a person morally or intellectually	172
5528154978	Atavistic	Relating to or characterized by reversion to something ancient	173
5528154979	Garrulous	Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters	174
5528154980	Affability	Distinguishing warmth and friendliness	175
5528154981	Deference	Humble submission and respect, look to for guidance or decision	176
5528154982	Rustic	Relating to, or living in the country	177
5528154983	Abject	Extremely bad, unpleasant and degrading; completely without pride or dignity	178
5528154984	Indolence	Avoidance of activity or extension; laziness	179
5528154985	Ingratiate	Bring oneself into favor with someone by flattering or trying to please them	180
5528154986	Benevolence	Desire to do good to others; goodwill	181
5528154987	Pomposity	Over the top; arrogant	182
5528154988	Pragmatism	Dark realism, logical way of making choices	183
5528154989	Bellicose	Demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight, warlike	184
5528154990	Subservient	Prepared to obey others unquestioningly to a problematic degree	185
5528154991	Pious	Devoutly religious; making a hypocritical display of virtue	186
5528154992	Rhetoric	The art of being affective or persuasive speaking or writing especially the use of figures of speech etc	187
5528154993	Libertine	A person, especially a man, who behaves without moral principals or a sense of responsibility, especially in sexual matters	188
5528154994	Aesthetic	Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty	189
5528154995	Haughty	Arrogantly superior and disdainful	190
5528154996	Admonition	Scolding, authoritative, counsel or warming	191
5528154997	Disconsolation	Hopeless, unhappy	192
5528154998	Salient	Most noticeable	193
5528154999	Omnipresent	Always present	194
5528155000	Somnolence	Of or relating to sleep	195