AP Vocab 16 Flashcards

7011566837	Colloquial	Of or relating to slang or regional dialect, used in familiar everyday conversation	0
7011566838	Meiosis	the use of understatement to highlight a point or explain a situation or to understate a response used to enhance the effect of a dramatic moment	1
7011566839	Metaphysical Poets	a term coined by the poet and critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of English lyric poets of the 17th century, whose work was characterized by the inventive use of conceits, and by speculation about topics such as love or religion. These poets were not formally affiliated; most of them did not even know one another or read one another's work	2
7011566840	Mock Heroic	imitating the style of heroic literature in order to satirize an unheroic subject.	3
7011566841	Romanticism	a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual	4
7011566842	Abstruse	Difficult to in penetrate	5
7011566843	Acerbic	Sour or bitter in taste	6
7011566844	Articulation	The manner in which things come together and are connected	7
7011566845	Contentious	Showing an inclination to disagree	8
7011566846	Erudite	Having or showing profound knowledge	9
7011566847	Esoteric	Understandable only by an enlightened inner circle	10
7011566848	Grotesque	Distorted and unnatural in shape or size	11
7011566849	Inane	Devoid of intelligence	12
7011566850	Indignant	Angered at something unjust or wrong	13
7011566851	Pedantic	Marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning	14
7011566852	Perturbation	The act of causing disorder	15
7011566853	Sanguine	Confidently optimistic and cheerful	16
7011566854	Sensuous	Taking delight in beauty	17
7011566855	Somber	Grave or even gloomy in character	18
7011566856	Temperate	Not extreme	19
7011566857	Alliteration	The repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. Example: In cliches: sweet smell of success, a dime a dozen, bigger and better, jump for joy.	20
7011566858	Allusion	A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature	21
7011566859	Antecedent	The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers.	22
7011566860	Antithesis	A concept that is directly opposed to a previously presented idea.	23
7011566861	Apostrophe	An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend	24
7011566862	Assonance	The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same	25
7011566863	Austere	Of stern or strict bearing or demeanor	26
7011566864	Elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead	27
7011566865	Euphemistic	Substituting a mild term for a harsher or distasteful one	28
7011566866	Euphony	Euphony refers to the quality of being pleasant to listen to. Euphony generally comes about through a harmonious combination of sounds and words. An author can create euphony in many different ways, such as using pleasant vowel and consonants, or by employing other literary devices, such as rhythm, rhyme, consonance, and assonance to create an overall harmonious sound to a work of literature.	29
7011566867	Feminine Rhyme	a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables (e.g., stocking / shocking, glamorous / amorous).	30
7011566868	Hyperbole	Use of specific words and phrases that exaggerate and overemphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect	31
7011566869	Lugubrious	Excessively mournful	32
7011566870	Lyric Poetry	Originally a composition meant for musical accompaniment. The term refers to a short poem in which the poet, the poet's persona, or another speaker expresses personal feelings.	33
7011566871	Metaphor	Makes an implicit, implied or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. In other words, a resemblance of two contradictory or different objects is made based on a single or some common characteristics	34
7011566872	Motif	a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.	35
7011566873	Parallelism	Also known as parallel structure; a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure	36
7011566874	Personification	A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. The non-human objects are portrayed in such a way that we feel they have the ability to act like human beings	37
7011566875	Purpose	a person's reason for writing, such as to inform, entertain, explain, or persuade.	38
7011566876	Syntax	The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns, such as phrases, clauses, and sentences.	39
7011566877	Theme	a main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly	40