AP Language Vocabulary #3 Flashcards

4885357255	Eminent	Standing out so as ready to be readily perceived or noted, conspicuous, famous within a profession	0
4885371496	Imminent	Likely to occur at any moment, impending	1
4885375932	Evocation	Calling forth, bringing out, elicit	2
6623932892	Debacle	Sudden downfall, collapse	3
6623936803	Churlish	Rude, selfish, or mean person	4
6623945634	Aberration	A deviation from what is right, abnormal	5
6623948712	Inimitable	Impossible to copy, unique	6
6623952513	Credulous	Ready to believe, especially on certain evidence, gullible, naive	7
6623957348	Usurped	To take over, to seize or use something without authority	8
6623962927	Unprecedented	Never done before , never known before	9
6623966675	False Analogy	When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them	10
6623982330	Figurative Language	Language that contains figures of speech, such as similes and metaphors, in order to create associations that are imaginative than literal	11
6623995062	Figures of Speech	Expressions, such as similes, metaphors, and personifications, that make imaginative, rather than literal, comparisons or associations	12
6624006244	Foreshadowing	The use of a hint or clue to suggest a larger event that occurs late in the work	13
6624025864	Freight-Train	Sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions	14
6624031247	Generalization	When a writer bases a claim upon an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable	15
6624056568	Genre	A type of literary work, such as a novel or poem	16
6624062641	Hubris	The excessive pride of ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warnings of impending doo, eventually causing his or her downfall	17
6633694128	Humor	Anything that causes laughter	18
6633715757	Hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration in order to create humor or emphasis (he was so hungry he could have eaten a horse)	19
6633724164	Image	a word or words, either figurative or literal, used to describe a sensory experience or an object perceived by the sense.	20
6633747013	Imagery	words or word phrases that use a collection of images to appeal to one or more of the five senses in order to create a mental picture	21
6633761462	Induction	the process that moves from a given specifics to a generalization	22
6633768967	Inference	a conclusion one can draw from the from the presented details	23
6633776108	Interior Monologue	writing that records the conversion that occurs inside a character's head	24
6633784882	Invective	a verbally abusive attack	25
6633786628	Inversion	reversing the customary (subject first, then verb, then compliment) order of elements in sentence or phrase; Often phrased as a question: "Are you going to the store?"	26
6633814008	Irony	a situation or statement in which the actual outcome or meaning is opposite to what is expected	27
6633826653	Jargon	the special language of a profession or group; like the writings of a lawyer and the literary critic.	28
6633836262	Logic	the process of reasoning	29