Vocabulary 5 AP Language Arts Flashcards
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| 13676349912 | a capella | (Italian) sung without instrumental accompaniment (literally "in chapel style") | 0 | |
| 13676357132 | bon mot | (French) a clever or witty remark (literally "good word") | 1 | |
| 13676365735 | Mary Rowlandson | "The Narrative of the Captivity"- were many captivity/historical narratives, some not true | 2 | |
| 13676373690 | Benjamin Franklin | Poor Richard's almanac- full of aphorisms (wise sayings) | 3 | |
| 13676378243 | rationalism | the idea that humans can arrive at truth through reasoning | 4 | |
| 13676388677 | romanticism | the idea that values feeling and intuition over reason- characterized by heroes and journeys, nature, imagination | 5 | |
| 13709377212 | cause célèbre- (fr) | a controversial issue attracting much pubic attention (literally- famous case) | 6 | |
| 13709380100 | deja vu (fr) | the sense of having experienced the same situation before (literally- already seen) | 7 | |
| 13709387565 | James Fennimore Cooper | 1st American novelist- LASR IF THE MOHICANS- developed the "American romantic hero" | 8 | |
| 13709394025 | Washington Irving | wrote "Rip Van Winkle" and "the legend of sleepy hollow" | 9 | |
| 13709402711 | American Romantic Hero | traits- knowledge based on intuition not formal education, loves nature, quests for a higher truth | 10 | |
| 13709421421 | American Renaissance | "coming of age" in American Literature- many masterpieces written (1840-1860) Authors: Hawthorne Poe , Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman | 11 | |
| 13709565836 | deus ex machina (Lat) | an unexpected event that saves an apparently hopeless situation- (lit- god from the machinery) | 12 | |
| 13709570812 | dolce vita | (lt) a life of pleasure and luxury (lit- sweet life) | 13 | |
| 13709577656 | Nathaniel Hawthorne | "The Scarlet letter" | 14 | |
| 13709581287 | Herman Melville | "Moby Dick"- monomanical | 15 | |
| 13709584165 | Edgar Allan Poe | "The Raven," "Tell-tale Heart" | 16 | |
| 13709588409 | Dark Romanticism | traits of romanticism, but add good vs evil, guilt and sin, horror, insanity, supernatural (Poe, Hawthorne, Melville) | 17 | |
| 13756836570 | idée fixe | in psychology, an irrational obsession- an idea or a desire which is so strong that you cannot think about anything else0 in music literature, a recurring theme or character trait that serves as the structural foundation of a work. | 18 | |
| 13756868805 | in situ | in the original or appropriate position | 19 | |
| 13756874305 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | - transcendentalist -"Self-Reliance", "Nature" | 20 | |
| 13756882736 | Henry David Thoreau | transcendentalist- "Civil Disobedience", walden | 21 | |
| 13756891544 | Transcendentalism | traits of Romanticism, but add spiritual- the oversoul and god in nature | 22 | |
| 13831779039 | je ne sais quoi | something that is hard to describe, usually positive (lit- I do not know what) EX. Although he's not conventionally attractive, he has a certain je ne sais quoi that makes him popular with the ladies. | 23 | |
| 13831791036 | laissez-faire | a policy that allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government | 24 | |
| 13831797529 | Walk Whitman | poet, free verse, cadence, cataloging, themes, patriotism, celebration of the human spirit- Leaves of Grass | 25 | |
| 13831807262 | Emily Dickinson | poet- short rhyming poems, slant rhyme, unusual use of capital letter, dashes, and lack of punctuation- wrote about emotion | 26 | |
| 13831813427 | free verse | poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter | 27 | |
| 13831885425 | saint rhyme | refers to words that almost rhyme (farm, yard) or appear to the eye to do so (said, paid) | 28 | |
| 13831897227 | cadence | a regular beat rhythm: the way a person's voice changes by raising or falling when he or she is speaking | 29 | |
| 13929854231 | uber alles (german) | above all else | 30 | |
| 13929856606 | mano a mano (sp) | direct confrontation or conflict | 31 | |
| 13929860215 | Stephen Crane | naturalist- Red Badge of Courage- Civil War | 32 | |
| 13929863220 | Theodore Dreiser | naturalist- an American tragedy | 33 | |
| 13929871033 | psychological realism | focus on the interior characterization, motives, thoughts, feelings | 34 | |
| 13929874524 | memento mori (latin) | (literally) remember that you will die | 35 | |
| 13929887662 | verboten(Ger) | forbidden | 36 | |
| 13929889660 | Fredrick douglass | realist- the life and times of frederick douglass- slavery | 37 | |
| 13929893351 | upton sinclair | realist, The jungle - meat packing industry | 38 | |
| 13929897563 | Realism | depicts life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing, contemporary life, often middle and lower class | 39 | |
| 13929905285 | Naturalism | shows human behavior as determined by heredity, environment and laws of nature (very pessimistic) | 40 | |
| 13929954988 | sine qua non | a thing that is absolutely essential | 41 | |
| 13929958486 | savoir faire | the ability to act appropriately in social situations | 42 | |
| 13929964621 | samuel clemens | regionalist, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer | 43 | |
| 13929967489 | kate chopin | regionalist, The Awakening | 44 | |
| 13929969625 | local color | customs, manner of speech, dress, or other typical features of a place or period that contribute to its particular character | 45 | |
| 13929977223 | regionalism | literature that uses local color | 46 | |
| 13929987448 | que sera sera (sp) | what will be, will be | 47 | |
| 13929990931 | poco a poco (sp) | little by little | 48 | |
| 13929994612 | john stein beck | grapes of wrath- realist/naturalist | 49 | |
| 13929998697 | william faulkner | The Sound and the Fury - realist/naturalist | 50 | |
| 13930006508 | F scott fitzgerald | farewell to arms- modernist | 51 | |
| 13930010064 | modernism | experimentation with new styles (i.e. stream of consciousness, and nontraditional themes, asking question about meaning and purpose) influeced by ideas of marx and freud | 52 | |
| 14045420973 | en masse (fr) | all together | 53 | |
| 14045420974 | deo gratias (l) | thanks to be god | 54 | |
| 14045429619 | Edith Wharton | psych realism- the age of innocence | 55 | |
| 14045431295 | ambrose Bierce | psych realism- "occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" The devil's dictionary | 56 | |
| 14045444529 | Harlem Renaissance | cultural movement of african-american artists, writers, musicians, and performers- mostly located harlem in NYC | 57 | |
| 14045462725 | Ernest Hemingway | farewell to arms- modernists | 58 | |
| 14045473348 | über alles (germ) | above all else | 59 | |
| 14045476818 | mano a mano (Sp) | direct confrontation or conflict | 60 | |
| 14045479117 | stephen crane | naturalist- red badge of courage- civil war | 61 | |
| 14045492590 | psychology realism | focus on the interior characterization, motives, thoughts, and feelings | 62 |