AP Language & Composition: Cumulative Vocabulary Flashcards

13753706233	disdainful tone	scornful and arrogant	0
13753706240	Apathetic tone	showing or feeling no interest, enthusiasm, or concern	1
13753706241	Equivocation	the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication	2
13753706242	ipso facto	by the fact itself	3
13753706243	Invocation	To call up	4
13753706244	active voice	the subject performs the action	5
13753706245	Hasty Generalization	A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached because of inadequate evidence.	6
13753706246	Colloquialism	informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing	7
13753706247	Demotic tone	conversational, colloquial	8
13753706248	Haughty tone	proud and vain to the point of arrogance	9
13753706249	Gothic	of the middle ages; of or relating to a mysterious, grotesque, and desolate style of fiction	10
13753706250	superfluous information	Unnecessary	11
13753706253	malapropism	a word humorously misused	12
13753706254	sanguineous tone	optimistic, cheerful	13
13753706257	Travesty	a grossly inferior imitation	14
13753706258	Slippery Slope	a fallacy which assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented	15
13753706259	Staccatto	Word.word.word	16
13753706260	round character	a well-developed character	17
13753706261	subjective tone	Opinionated	18
13753706262	imperative statement	A command statement with a verb phrase that indicates an operation to perform (example: "move forward")	19
13753706263	Impunity	freedom from punishment or harm	20
13753706264	Litote	A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement(he is not that bad)	21
13753706265	tongue-in-cheek	expressing a thought in a way that appears to be sincere, but is actually joking	22
13753706268	dichotomy/dichotomous	having two conflicting sides, one person is divided.	23
13753706269	Semantics	Meaning of words and sentences	24
13753706270	stream of consciousness	a style of writing that portrays the inner (often chaotic) workings of a character's mind.	25
13753706271	flat character	Character without lots of info	26
13753706272	Flippant tone	lacking proper respect or seriousness	27
13753706273	obfuscation	confusing, making unclear	28
13753706274	Ominicent narrator	Knows all about characters	29
13753706275	Platonic Theory	Plato's phil ass	30
13753706276	Philosophical assumptions	the writer's basic beliefs about life	31
13753706277	Dirty Realism	stories are reduced to the barest elements; often a bleak quality; prominent in the UK	32
13753706278	altruism	unselfish concern for the welfare of others	33
13753706279	discourse	conversation	34
13753706280	Straw Man	A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea.	35
13753706281	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	36
13753706282	stock character	a stereotypical character	37
13753706283	Structural device	devices used to construct the form of a composition	38
13753706284	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	39
13753706285	dynamic character	A character that changes throughout the story	40
13753706286	Epistle	Fancy letters	41
13753706289	cyclical structure	material heard in one movement recurs in later movements; creates structural unity in a multi-movement work	42
13753706290	didacticism (tone)	when the writer addresses the readers as if they must learn something	43
13753706291	Ere	before	44
13753706292	Ergo	conj. therefore	45
13753706293	Erudite tone	having or showing profound knowledge /learned, polished, scholarly	46
13753706294	extended metaphor	A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.	47
13753706295	Exsistentialism	a philosophical doctrine and literary and dramatic movement that insists on the existence of individual as basic and important	48
13753706296	Impudent tone/diction	arrogant, cocky, cheeky	49
13753706297	incongruity	nonconformity, disagreement, incompatibility	50
13753706298	independent variable	a variable (often denoted by x ) whose variation does not depend on that of another.	51
13753706299	Pedantic tone	Intellectually boring	52
13753706300	Polytheism	Belief in many gods	53
13753706304	Archetype	a perfect example; an original pattern or model	54
13753706305	Appositive	A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it(an insect,a cockroach...)	55
13753706307	Assertion	a declaration or statement	56
13753706309	Cognizant diction	Knowledge of something usually out of personal experience	57
13753706310	code switching	Shifting back and forth between languages in the same conversation	58
13753706311	Cohesive	condition of sticking together	59
13753706312	didactic tone	intended to teach people a moral lesson	60
13753706313	dependent clause	A phrase that can't stand alone as a complete sentence.	61
13753706314	elevated diction	Talking about something spiritual or philosophical	62
13753706315	Elliptical structure	A sentence containing a deliberate omission of words to make it shorter w/o changing the meaning (I ate the apple;my brother, the orange)	63
13753706320	Anachronism	something out of place in time or sequence	64
13753706321	Anthropomorphism	the attribution of humanlike characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature	65
13754418810	Anon	soon, shortly	66
13754418811	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.(Adeline but her lip) Adeline and her	67
13758375914	accoutrement	equipment; outfit	68
13758375915	ad hominem	a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute	69
13758375916	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	70
13758375917	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds (she sells sea shells)	71
13758375918	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	72
13758375919	Altruism	unselfish concern for the welfare of others	73
13758375920	ambivalent (tone)	indecisive	74
13758375921	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause(strength through purity,purity through faith)	75
13758375922	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	76
13758375923	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses( good food. Good times. Good cheer)	77
13758375924	anomaly	The one that doesn't fit	78
13758375925	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	79
13758375926	Apollonian perspective	Apollo	80
13758375927	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	81
13758375928	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity(it made you feel real)	82
13758375929	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions(I came. I saw. I conquered)	83
13758375930	balanced sentence	a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast	84
13758375931	Bathos	insincere or overdone sentimentality	85
13758375932	begging the question	A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt.	86
13758375933	belletristic	written and regarded for aesthetic value rather than content	87
13758375934	Bellicose tone	argumentative	88
13758375935	Bildungsroman	A coming of age story	89
13758375936	Bombastic diction	high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated	90
13758375937	Bourgeoisie	upper class	91
13758375938	burlesque	A work of literature meant to ridicule a subject; a grotesque imitation.	92
13758375939	cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	93
13758375940	callous tone	unfeeling, insensitive to feelings of others	94
13758375941	candid (tone)	1. frank and sincere; 2. natural and unrehearsed	95
13758375942	casual relationship	Form of argumentation in which the writer claims that one thing results from another, often used as part of a logical argument.	96
13758375943	Chiasmus	xyyx	97
13758375944	circular reasoning	a fallacy in which the writer repeats the claim as a way to provide evidence	98
13758375945	circumlocution	talking in circles	99
13758375946	Comic Juxtaposition	Linking things which do not normally go together to make a point	100
13758375947	complex sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	101
13758375948	compound sentence	a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions(I like tea, and he likes coffee)	102
13758375949	compound-complex sentence	at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses	103
13758375950	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	104
13758375951	Consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds(the furrow followed free)	105
13758375952	contemptuous tone	showing or feeling that something is worthless or lacks respect	106
13758375953	cumulative sentence	sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	107
13758375954	Dark Romanticism	Focused on the dark, evil aspects of human nature.	108
13758375955	deductive reasoning	reasoning in which a conclusion is reached by stating a general principle and then applying that principle to a specific case (The sun rises every morning; therefore, the sun will rise on Tuesday morning.)	109
13758375956	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word	110
13758375957	dependent clause	does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence	111
13758375958	dissonance	Unpleasant or unharmonious sound	112
13758375959	Dogma	Belief or theology	113
13758375960	dogmatism	Religious language	114
13758375961	dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	115
13758375962	dynamic character	A character that changes throughout the story	116
13758375963	Dystopia	imaginary place where living conditions are dreadful	117
13758375964	either/or reasoning	When the writer reduces an argument or issue to two polar opposites and ignores any alternatives.	118
13758375965	Elongated Sentence	An extended/lengthened sentence used to create an effect.	119
13758375966	emulation	effort or desire to equal or excel others	120
13758375967	Enthymeme	an argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated	121
13758375968	epic poetry	A long narrative poem about the adventures of an almost superhuman character	122
13758375969	epic simile	a detailed comparison in the form of a simile that is many lines in length	123
13758375970	epigram	witty comment	124
13758375971	Episodic Structure	made up of a series of chapters or stories linked together by the same character, place, or theme but held apart by their individual plot, purpose, and subtext.	125
13758375972	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences(see no evil,feel no evil,speak no evil)	126
13758375973	epitome	a typical example	127
13758375974	Et al	others	128
13758375975	Ethos	Ethical appeal	129
13758375976	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	130
13758375977	euphony	beautiful sound	131
13758375978	Exhorative tone	A. Offering advice	132
13758375979	exhortation	a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action	133
13758375980	expository text	this type of text informs or instructs the reader. It is nonfiction.	134
13758375981	external conflict	A struggle between a character and an outside force	135
13758375982	False Dilemma	A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options (usually two) when in fact more options are available.	136
13758375983	Faulty enthymeme	argument in which one of the premises or the conclusion is not explicitly stated.	137
13766081160	innocuous	Meaningless	138
13766081161	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	139
13766081162	Literary Conceit	an extended metaphor, sometimes using apparent opposites to highlight an underlying truth.	140
13766081163	pathetic fallacy	faulty reasoning that inappropriately ascribes human feelings to nature or nonhuman objects	141
13766081164	Sic		142