AP LANGUAGE 4 Flashcards

14691039212	indignant	angered at something unjust or wrong	0
14691039213	elegiac	mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful	1
14691039214	nostalgia	a longing for something past; homesickness	2
14691039215	cynical	believing the worst of human nature and motives	3
14691039216	lyrical	expressing a poet's inner feelings; emotional; full of images; song-like	4
14726394275	wry	cleverly and often ironically or grimly humorous	5
14726394276	objective	impersonal; not influenced by emotions	6
14726394277	disdainful	showing arrogant superiority	7
14726394278	imflammatory	tending to make people angry	8
14726394279	apprehensive	in fear or dread of possible harm or evil	9
14811073459	incredulous	disbelieving, skeptical	10
14811073460	sardonic	scornfully mocking	11
14811073461	staid	serious and dignified	12
14811073462	didactic	instructive	13
14811073463	admonitory	warning	14
14923464270	accusatory	accusing	15
14923464271	erudite	very educated	16
14923464272	candid	honest and direct	17
14923464273	flippant	treating a serious subject in a way that is not serious	18
14923464274	jubilant	joyful	19
15038346141	colloquial	informal and conversational	20
15038346142	solemn	serious and dignified	21
15038346143	exuberant	happy, excited, and full of energy	22
15038346144	querulous	complaining; grumbling	23
15038346145	condemnatory	strongly disapproving	24
15275712071	Persona	the personality the author creates with a text to appeal to the audience	25
15275712072	Rhetoric	the art of effective or persuasive speaking/writing	26
15275712073	Exigence	whatever motivates a speaker to write for argue	27
15275712074	Ethos	used to gain the audience's trust; the most important appeal	28
15275712075	context	the time, place, culture, events, and motivating forces that surround and create the rhetorical question	29