AP Literature Flashcards
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| 11136914584 | raze | (v.) to tear down, destroy completely; to cut or scrape off or out | 0 | |
| 11136920407 | reticent | silent; reserved | 1 | |
| 11136922826 | retort | To respond critically or sarcastically | 2 | |
| 11136926032 | subvert | overturn or overthrow from the foundation; undermine | 3 | |
| 11136931906 | tractable | (adj.) easily managed, easy to deal with; easily wrought, malleable | 4 | |
| 11136935764 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 5 | |
| 11136943680 | Asyndeton | the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. | 6 | |
| 11136947468 | attitude | A person's consistently favorable or unfavorable evaluations, feelings, and tendencies toward an object or idea | 7 | |
| 11136949789 | Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas | 8 | |
| 11136953677 | ballad stanza | a four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. | 9 |