AP Language Tone, Attitude, Style Words Flashcards

11031009190	accusatory	charging of wrongdoing	0
11031009191	apathetic	indifferent due to lack of energy or concern	1
11031009192	awe	solemn wonder	2
11031009193	bitter	exhibiting strong animosity as a result of pain or grief	3
11031009194	cynical	questions the basic sincerity and goodness of people	4
11031009195	condescension	a feeling of superiority	5
11031009196	callous	unfeeling, insensitive to the feelings of others	6
11031009197	contemplative	studying, thinking, reflecting on an issue	7
11031009198	critical	finding fault	8
11031009199	choleric	hot-tempered, easily angered	9
11031009200	contemptuous	showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect	10
11031009201	caustic	intense use of sarcasm, stinging, biting	11
11031009202	conventional	lacking spontaneity, originality, and individuality	12
11031009203	disdainful	scornful	13
11031009204	didactic	author attempts to educate or instruct the reader	14
11031009205	derisive	ridiculing, mocking	15
11031009206	earnest	intense, a sincere state of mind	16
11031009207	erudite	learned, polished, scholarly	17
11031009208	fanciful	using the imagination	18
11031009209	forthright	directly frank without hesitation	19
11031009210	gloomy	sadness, darkness, rejection	20
11031009211	haughty	proud and vain to the point of arrogance	21
11031009212	indignant	marked by anger, aroused by injustice	22
11031009213	intimate	very familiar	23
11031009214	judgmental	authoritative and often having critical opinions	24
11031009215	jovial	happy	25
11031009216	lyrical	expressing a poets inner feelings, emotional, full of images, song-like	26
11031009217	matter of fact	accepting of conditions, not fanciful or emotional	27
11031009218	mocking	treating with contempt or ridicule	28
11031009219	morose	gloomy, sullen, surly, despondent	29
11031009220	malicious	purposefully hurtful	30
11031009221	objective	an unbiased view, able to leave personal judgments aside	31
11031009222	optimistic	hopeful, cheerful	32
11031009223	obsequious	polite and obedient in order to gain something	33
11031009224	patronizing	air of condescension	34
11031009225	pessimistic	seeing the worst side of things, no hope	35
11031009226	quizzical	(adj.) puzzled; mocking; odd; equivocal	36
11031009227	ribald	offensive in speech or gesture	37
11031009228	reverent	treating a subject with honor and respect	38
11031009229	ridiculing	slightly contemptuous banter, making fun of	39
11031009230	reflective	illustrating innermost thoughts or emotions	40
11031009231	sarcastic	sneering, caustic	41
11031009232	sardonic	scornfully and bitterly sarcastic	42
11031009233	satiric	ridiculing to show weakness in order to make a point, teach	43
11031009234	sincere	without deceit or pretense, genuine	44
11031009235	solemn	deeply earnest, tending toward sad reflection	45
11031009236	sanguineous	optimistic and cheerful	46
11031009237	whimsical	odd, strange, fantastic, fun	47
11031009238	anadiplosis	beginning a sentence by repeating the last word of the previous sentence	48
11031009239	anaphora	the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses	49
11031009240	epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses	50
11031009241	litote	a positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions	51
11031009242	asyndeton	the omission of a conjugation between parts of a sentence	52
11031009243	zeugma	a word applies to more than one noun	53
11031009244	Antimetabole/Chiasmus	a sentence is repeated in reverse order	54
11031009245	apposition (use of appositives)	two words or phrases are grammatically parallel and have the same referent	55
11031009246	hypophora	a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to the question	56
11031009247	synechdoche	a part is made to represent the whole	57
11031009248	polysyndeton	conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession	58
11031009249	paradox	contains two statements that are true, but cannot be true at the same time	59