AP Language Vocab Flashcards

9717002996	Apollonian	relating to the rational, ordered, and self-disciplined aspects of human nature	0
9717012126	Archaic language	old-fashioned.	1
9717034223	Bowdlerize	remove material that is considered improper or offensive from a text, makig it weaker or less effective.	2
9717044931	Carpe Diem	used to urge someone to make the most of the present time and give little thought to the future	3
9717125868	Catharsis	The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions at the end of a piece	4
9717181057	Cavalier	marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful dismissal of important matters	5
9717208473	didactic	intended to teach	6
9717394433	Dionysian	realting to sensual, spontaneous, and emotional aspects of human nature	7
9717402195	Dissonance	tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements	8
9717412743	Eponym	a person after whom a discovery, invention, place is named or thought to be named	9
9717435830	Microcosm	a community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristic qualities or features of something much larger	10
9717446792	Mimesis	representation or imitation of the real world in art and literature	11
9717453245	Pantheism	a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or universe is a manifestation of God. Reality is identical to divinity	12
9717479202	Pedantic	excessively concerned with minor details or rules; oversrupulous	13
9717500970	Primitivism	Belief in the value of what is simple and unsophisticated, expressed as a philosophy of life or through art or literature	14
9717509677	Semantics	Meaning of a word, phrase, or text	15
9717514164	Aestheticism	the approuch to art exemplified by the aesthetic movement	16
9717530106	Miracle play	A mystery play	17
9717532967	Mock epic	long poem narrating deed or adventures	18
9717541807	Paean	song of praise or triumph	19
9717552411	beat generation	movement of young people in 50s and 60s who rejected conventional society	20
9731088277	Gothic literature	style of writing characterized by elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements	21
9731098850	Hedonism	the persuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence; pleasure is the highest aim of life	22
9731122138	Horatian satire	Donoting an ode of several stanzas each with the same metrical pattern	23
9731140876	Lampoon	Criticize someone using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm	24
9731145381	Lexicon	Vocabulary of a person, langage, or branch of knowledge	25
9731157124	Metaphysical poetry	highly intellectualized marked by bold and ingenious conceits, imagery, complex and subtle thought, paradox, and often harshness or rigidity of expression	26
9731179111	Conceit	fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor	27
9731189396	Farce	comic dramatic work using baffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations	28
9731199543	Homily	Tedious moralizing piece	29
9731208538	Dirge	a mournful lament	30
9731216395	Elegy	a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.	31
9731221758	Burlesque	absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something; a parody	32
9731232398	Bildungsroman	novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education	33
9731242122	Aubade	a poem or piece of music appropriate to the dawn or early morning	34
9731275923	Travelogue	book about places visited by or experiences of a traveller	35
9731304508	Paean	a creative work expressing enthusiastic praise	36
9731313390	Tract	typically religious literary work, often a brief pamphlet	37
9731328080	Parataxis	Placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination.	38
9731336432	palindrome	a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards	39
9731350708	Portmanteau	a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others	40
9731368041	Zeugma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses	41
9731384441	Sentential	relating to a sentence	42
9731386928	Invective	insulting, abusive, or highly critical language	43
9731392768	Synaesthesia	writing that presents ideas, characters, or places in such a manner that they appeal to more than one sense, like hearing, sight, smell, and touch at a given time	44
9731442813	Dionysian	based on certain features of ancient Greek mythology	45
9731464721	Hypophora	figure of speech in which the speaker poses a question and then answers the question	46
9731476205	Gustatory imagery	imagery related to the sense of taste	47
9731505454	Regionalism	fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region.	48
9731537140	Kenning	A compound expression in Old English and Old Norse poetry with metaphorical meaning.	49
9742768340	Bathos	Anticlimax created by an unintentional laps in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous	50
9742777994	pedantry	excessive concern with minor details and rules	51
9742779852	Meiosis	intentionally understates something or implies that it is lesser in significance or size than it really is.	52
9742787028	Misnomer	A wrong or inaccurate use of a name	53
9742797341	Insipid language	lacking vigor or interest	54
9742818467	Symploce	First and last word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence are repeated in one or more successive clauses	55
9742827812	Bombast	high-sounding language with little meaning, used to impress people	56
9742838958	Proverb	a short saying stating a general truth or piece of advice	57
9742846564	Comma splice	an instance of using a comma to link two independent clauses	58
9742851621	The Lost Generation	group of American writers who came of age during WW1 and established reputations in 1920s.	59
9742861328	Memoir	historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources	60
9742866491	loose sentence	set of words that is complete in itself	61
9742888362	Sociological novel	genre of novel that shows the influence of economic and social conditions on characters and events with an eye towards social reform	62
9742912181	Subject complement	adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb	63
9742925650	Existentialism	movement in philosophy and literature that emphasizes indivuidual existence, freedom and choice	64
9742962198	Juvenalian satire	bitter and ironic criticism of contemporary persons and institutions that is filled with personal invective, angry moral indignation, and pessismism.	65
9742971073	conduplicatio	figure of repetition in which the key word or words in one phrase, clause, or sentence is repeated at or near the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or phrases	66
9742985033	Socratic irony	when you pretend to be ignorant to expose the ignorance or inconsistency of someone else	67
9742998475	Rhetorical shift	a change or movement in a piece from one point or idea to another Definition	68
9743007008	False Dilemma	logical fallacy when one choice is false and one is true-or one is acceptable and the other is not	69
9743017389	Thesis	short statement that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay, etc.	70
9743021147	Epithet	application of a word or phrase to someone that descrives that person's attributes or qualities.	71
9743031661	Straw man	someone argues that a person holds a view that is actually not what the person believes, but a distorted version.	72
9743036379	Courtly love	conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry	73
9743041105	Antanagoge	figure in rhetoric, in which, not being able to answer the accusation of an adversary, a person instead makes a counter-allegation or counteracting an opponent's proposal with an opposing proposition in one's own speech or writing.	74
9774209085	Pertinacity	Sticking with something, no matter what	75
9774451958	Syllogism	Deductive scheme of a formal argument with a major and minor premise and conclusion	76
9774519253	Procatalepsis	rhetorical figure by which an opponent's objections are anticipated and answered	77
9774535861	Metabasis	inference or connection based on analogy	78
9774550667	Rhetorical mode	major kinds of language-based communication: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation	79
9774573345	Rhetorical purpose	goal a literary work is meant to achieve in terms of influencing people	80
9774592605	Begging the question	writer assumes the statement under examination to be true. Uses a premise to support itself	81
9774612022	Ad hominem	response to a person's argment by attacking the preson's character rather than the logic or content of the argument	82
9774648593	Didactic	intended to teach	83
9774653656	Analogy	device that creates a rleationship between two ideas based on parallels or connections.	84
9774669684	Alliteration	occurence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	85
9774680926	Tautology	saying of the same thing twice over in different words	86
9774700448	Jargon	special words or expressions used by a profession or group that are difficult for others to understand	87
9774718713	Juxtaposition	the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect	88
9774730771	Verisimilitude	a literary text is believable	89
9774747883	Leitmotif	recurrent theme through the pieve, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation	90
9774764409	Pun	joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings	91
9774780777	Resources of language	general phrase for lingusitic devices or techniques that a writer can use	92
9774794813	Satire	writing that seeks to arouse a reader's disapproval of an object by ridicule	93
9774812928	Assonance	repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	94
9791203096	hypostatization	to treat or regard a concept or idea as reality	95
9807419093	Malapropism	mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with an amusing effect	96
9807435281	Hyperbaton	inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis	97
9807450873	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	98
9807464617	Litotes	ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary	99
9807472015	Understatement	presentation of something as being smaller or less good or important than it really is	100
9807482680	Olfactory imagery	words that pertain to the sense of smell	101
9807502819	Wit	elements designed to make the audience laugh or feel amused	102
9807514281	Allusion	A reference to something outside of the work of literature, such as an event, person, or work	103
9807527600	Mood	element that evokes certain feelings or vibes through words and descriptions. Typically the emotional atmoshphere of the piece	104
9807545812	Oxymoron	figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	105
9807560330	Expose'	A piece that reveals the truth about a sitiuation or person, especially something involving shocking facts	106
9807585844	Predicate nominative	a word in the nominative case that completes a copulative verb, such as son in the sentence Charlie is my son.	107
9807603656	Fable	short story, typically with animals as characters, or supernatural, conveying a moral	108
9807630518	Feminism	piece advocating for women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes	109
9807660563	Melodrama	sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions	110
9807671340	Active voice	form or set of forms of a verb in which the subject is typically the person or thing perfomring the action and which can take a direct object	111
9807686488	Apposition	Relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent.	112
9807704030	Dangling participle	participle intended to modify a noun which is not actually present in the text	113
9807720875	Gerund	verb form which functions as a noun (asking in 'do you mind my asking you?')	114
9807736534	Imperative sentences	gives instructions or advice	115
9807747589	infinitive	basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense	116
9807755246	Epistolary	in the form of letters	117
9807768298	Loose sentence	begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases and/or clauses that modify the main clause	118
9807798372	misplaced modifier	word, phrase, or clause that is improperly separated from the word it modifies/describes	119
9807810520	Parenthesis	word or phrase inserted as an explanation or afterthought into a passage which is grammatically complete without it, marked off by brackets, dashes, or commas	120
9807827264	Participle	word formed from a verb and used as an adjective or noun.	121
9807841531	Participle phrase	phrase that has a particple pls modifiers, objects, and/or complements	122
9807855211	Passive voice	form or set of forms of a verb in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb (ex: they were killed)	123
9807869435	Periodic sentence	has the main clause or predicate at the end for emphasis.	124
9807880927	Sentence structure	How a sentence is grammatically arranged; including where the noun and verb fall within an individual sentence	125
9807909198	Subordinate clause	clause, typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause	126
9807960271	Anecdote	short amusing or interesting story, often propesed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh	127
9807977573	Rhetoric	effective or persuasive writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques	128
9807992325	Biased sample	Make a claim about something based on a sample that is erroneous or somehow not representative of the whole	129
9808019368	Rhetorical device	technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading	130
9808036879	Rhetorical question	question that not be expecting an answer. Could be one that has an obvious answer but it makes a point, persuades, or is for literary effect	131
9808060490	Detail	fact or significant term that makes up a larger picture or story	132
9834375021	Loaded Words	have strong emotional implications and involve strongly positive or negative reactions beyond their literal meaning.	133
9834383755	Slippery Slope	a fallacy that suggests taking a minor action will lead to major and often ludicrous sonsequences	134
9834395180	Determinist	believes that acts of the will, occurrences in nature, or social or psychological phenomena are casually determined by preceding events or natura laws.	135
9834412374	Ambiguity	multiple meanings a literary work may convey, mostly two meanings that are incompatible	136
9834428391	Antecedent	What goes before, especially the word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers.	137
9834434571	Soliloquy	speech where a character is alone and speaks their thoughts aloud.	138
9834440574	Irony	Expression of a meaning by usig language that usually means the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect	139
9834449693	Naturalism	literary genre based on the idea that environment determines and governs human character	140
9834471355	Denotation	dictionary meaning of a word	141
9834475305	Allegory	story in which people, things, and events have another meaning	142
9834479986	Imagery	parts of a literary work that evoke the senses; images	143
9834482488	Digression	use of material unrelated to the subject	144
9834489671	Ode	A poem that is usually praising something; often addressed to the subject of the praise	145
9834501072	Cosmic irony	the idea that fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations	146
9834506956	Implied metaphor	type of metaphor that compares two unlike things, but does it without mentioning one of them; instead describing it in some way.	147
9834517645	Foreshadowing	The author hints at something that is going to happen later in the piece	148
9835194522	Polysyndeton	Repetition of conjunctions	149