AP Vocabulary Flashcards

13798838791	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	0
13798838792	Anachronism	something out of place in time	1
13798838793	Anthropomorphism	the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects	2
13798838794	Bathos	when writing strains for grandeur it can't support and tries to elicit tears from every little hiccup	3
13798838795	black humor	this is the use of disturbing themes in comedy. e.g. two tramps comically debating over which should commit suicide first, and whether the branches of a tree will support their weight	4
13798838796	cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	5
13798838797	coinage	the invention of new words	6
13798838798	dirge	a song for the dead	7
13798838799	Hubris	excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy	8
13798838800	lament	a poem of sadness or grief over the death of a loved one or over some other intense loss	9
13798838801	Parable	like a fable or an allegory, it's a story that instructs; a story consisting of events from which a moral or spiritual truth may be derived	10
13798838802	pastoral	A poem set in tranquil nature or even more specifically, one about shepherds.	11
13798838803	rhapsody	an intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise	12
13798838804	syncope	contracting or shortening a word by removing internal sounds, syllables, or letters and inserting an apostrophe	13
13798838805	truism	a way-too-obvious truth	14
13798838806	Utopia	an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect	15
13798838807	verisimilitude	the appearance of being true or real	16
13798838808	Zeugma	the use of a word to modify two or more words, but used for different meanings	17
13798838809	plaint	a poem or speech expressing sorrow	18
13798838810	elegy	A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner.	19