Ap Literature Flashcards
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| 11874355244 | admonition | gentle warning; friendly reproof | 0 | |
| 11874355245 | anticlimactic | having an end that is less important than what precedes it | 1 | |
| 11874355246 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 2 | |
| 11874355247 | Aphorism | A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. | 3 | |
| 11874355248 | axiomatic | self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule sentence: The oceans waves hissed at the billis to come join them, and his axiomatic mind was drawn to the sea's never ending call. | 4 | |
| 11874355249 | Bildungsroman | a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education. | 5 | |
| 11874355250 | bourgeois | a member of the middle class | 6 | |
| 11874355251 | Chiasmus | a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form, "fare is foul and foul is fair" "if its not broke dont fix it " | 7 | |
| 11874355252 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation. | 8 | |
| 11874355253 | didactic | intended to instruct | 9 | |
| 11932300325 | lampoon | to ridicule with satire | 10 | |
| 11932300326 | axiomatic (adj) | self-evident or unquestionable | 11 | |
| 11932300327 | epigram | a pity remark expressing an idea in an amusing way | 12 | |
| 11932300328 | episolary | def: relating to writing of letters sentence: Mary had kept an epistolary collection of the secret romance between her and her bf NO SYNONYMS | 13 | |
| 11932300329 | sanctimonious(adj) | making a show of being morally superior to other people sentence: mr collins making comments that he marrys his sister and brags that hes married and elizabeths still single | 14 | |
| 11932300330 | lampoon verb | publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm sentence: syn: mock , ridicule | 15 | |
| 12001465645 | satirize(Verb) | to utter or write satire Syn: Mock, lampoon, deride sentence: The poet looked for many ways to satirize the boring poem dub give it more humorous appeal | 16 | |
| 12001465646 | homily ( noun) | a religious discourse that is intended primarily for spiritual edification syn: sermon, lecture, lesson | 17 | |
| 12001465647 | Malapropism noun | 1. a mistaken use of a word in place of similar sounding one 2. religious discourse syn: misuse, blunder,infelicity | 18 | |
| 12001465648 | Limerick (noun) | a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming aabba, popularized by Edward Lear. syn: ? | 19 |