Ap literature terms Flashcards
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| 7480746992 | Allegory | Story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities | 0 | |
| 7480793015 | Animistic | Animism is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. | 1 | |
| 9535698072 | Appositive | of, relating to, or standing in grammatical apposition | 2 | |
| 9535698073 | Bulwark | A defensive wall | 3 | |
| 9535702739 | Circumspect | wary and unwilling to take risks. | 4 | |
| 9535706508 | Crudities | assorted raw vegetables served as an hors d'oeuvre, typically with a sauce into which they may be dipped. | 5 | |
| 9535706509 | Deference | Humbled submission and respect | 6 | |
| 9535710760 | Effacement (self) | Making ones self inconspicuous | 7 | |
| 9535720299 | Egotism | the practice of talking and thinking about oneself excessively because of an undue sense of self-importance. | 8 | |
| 9535720300 | Evocate | To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | 9 | |
| 9535723293 | Idiosyncratic | Peculiar or individual | 10 | |
| 9535725730 | Idolatrous | Worshiping idols, being infatuated with someone | 11 | |
| 9535727510 | Integral | Necessary to make a whole complete | 12 | |
| 9535730101 | Mendacious | Lying | 13 | |
| 9535732116 | Monotany | Lack of variety | 14 | |
| 9535736214 | Paradoxical inversions | Contradictory | 15 | |
| 9535739245 | Pastoral | Used to graze cattle | 16 | |
| 9535741765 | Quasi (religious) | Something sacred | 17 | |
| 9535741766 | Romantic (anti) | An anti-romance, sometimes referred to as a satire, is a type of story characterized by having an apathetic or self-doubting anti-hero cast as the protagonist, who fails in the object of his journey or struggle. ... An anti-romance is the antithesis of a romance. | 18 | |
| 9535744309 | Syllogism | an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion | 19 |