AP Literature Midterm Study Guide Flashcards

9279585943	Banal	Hackneyed, trite, commonplace	0
9279585944	Belabor	To work on excessively; to thrash soundly	1
9279585945	Emulate	To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model	2
9279585946	Eschew	To avoid, shun, keep away from	3
9279585947	Tenable	Capable of being held or defended	4
9279585948	Halcyon	A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent	5
9279678113	germane	relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting	6
9279678114	Pejorative	Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling	7
9279678115	undulate	to move in waves or with wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form	8
9279802040	propriety	the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable	9
9279802041	celerity	swiftness, rapidity of motion or action	10
9279802042	histrionic	pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic	11
9279802043	Verbiage	Language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression	12
9279802044	verdant	green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment	13
9279802045	feckless	lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable	14
9279802046	nefarious	wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards	15
9279802047	unwonted	not usual or expected; not in character	16
9279802048	credence	belief, mental acceptance	17
9279802049	exigency	urgency, pressure; urgent demand, pressing need; an emergency	18
9279802050	pecuniary	consisting of or measured in money; of or related to money	19
9279802051	pusillanimous	contemptibly cowardly or mean-spirited	20
9279802052	frenetic	frenzied, highly agitated	21
9279802053	glean	to gather bit by bit; to gather small quantities of grain left in a field by the reapers	22
9279802054	recumbent	in a reclining position, lying down, in the posture of one sleeping or resting	23
9279802055	esoteric	intended for or understood by only a select few, private, secret	24
9279802056	fecund	fruitful in offspring or vegetation; intellectually productive	25
9279802057	ignominy	Shame or dishonor; a disgraceful act or conduct	26
9279802058	mundane	earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary	27
9279802059	ubiquitous	present or existing everywhere	28
9279802060	enervate	to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of; enfeeble, hamstring	29
9279802061	complicity	involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice	30
9281665773	indubitable	certain, not to be doubted or denied	31
9281665774	Moot	open to discussion and debate, unresolved; to bring up for discussion; a hypothetical law case argued by students	32
9281665775	neophyte	a new convert, beginner, novice	33
9281665776	inane	silly, empty of meaning or value	34
9281665777	intermittent	stopping and beginning again, sporadic	35
9281665778	Ambiguity	a vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation	36
9281665779	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea	37
9281665780	Allegory	A story in which a second meaning is to be read beneath the surface	38
9281665781	Alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or lines in a poem	39
9281665782	Anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a series of phrases, clauses, or sentences	40
9282211344	Anastrophe	the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses	41
9282211345	anecdote	short account of an amusing or interesting event	42
9282211346	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast.	43
9282211347	Antithesis	A rhetorical opposition or contrast of ideas by means of a grammatical arrangement of words	44
9282211348	Apostrophe	A locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present	45
9282211349	Assosance	The repetition of two or more vowel sounds in a group of words or lines of a poem	46
9282211350	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	47
9282211351	Chiasmus	two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a)	48
9282532063	Conceit	A witty or ingenious thought; a diverting or highly fanciful idea, often stated in figurative language	49
9282532064	Connotation	The suggested or implied meaning of a word or phrase	50
9282532065	Dialect	the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people	51
9282532066	Caesura	A pause somewhere in the middle of a verse, often marked by punctuation	52
9282532067	Consonance	repetition of two or more consonant sounds within a line	53
9282532068	Diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	54
9282532069	didactic	instructive	55
9282532070	Epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning	56
9282532071	Episteophe	The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases or clauses	57
9282532072	epithet	an adjective or phrase that expresses a striking quality of a person or thing	58
9282532073	Enjambment	In poetry, the use of successive lines with no punctuation or pause between them	59
9282532074	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence	60
9282532075	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	61
9282532076	situational irony	what actually happens is the opposite of what is expected or appropriate	62
9282532077	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something the characters do not	63
9282532078	Juxtaposition	A place by side in order to show similarities or differences	64
9282532079	Litotes	A form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis of intensity	65
9282532080	Metonymy	A figure of speech that users the name of one thing to represent something else with which t is associated	66
9282532081	Motif	A phrase, idea, or event that through repetition serves to unify or convey a theme	67
9282532082	parody	an imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject	68
9282532083	Polysyndeton	The use of conjunctions between each word, phrase, or clause	69
9282532084	rhetorical question	a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer	70
9282532085	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.	71
9282532086	Understatement	A statement that says less than what is meant	72
9282532087	rhyme scheme	the pattern of rhyme in a poem	73
9282532088	Slant/near/approximate rhyme	The words sound close but are not exact rhymes	74
9282532089	free verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	75
9282532090	blank verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	76
9282532091	Stanza	A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem	77
9282532092	Metaphor	figure of speech comparing two different things	78
9282532093	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	79
9282532094	Symbol	A thing, person, or idea that stands for something else	80
9282532095	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	81
9282532096	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	82
9282532097	Hyperbole	Overstatement; gross exaggeration for rhetorical effect	83
9282532098	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	84
9282532099	lyric poem	a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker	85
9282532100	Ballad	A simple narrative verse that tells a story that is sung or recited	86
9282532101	elegy	A poem or prose selection that laments or mediates on the passing or death of something or someone of value	87
9282532102	Ode	A lyrical poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject	88
9282532103	Sonnet	a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme	89
9282532104	Ethos	credibility or an ethical appeal which involves persuasion by the character involved.	90
9282532105	Logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	91
9282532106	Pathos	Emotional appeal	92
9282532107	logical fallacy	faulty reasoning	93
9282532108	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	94
9282532109	parallelism/parallel structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	95