AP Lit Challenging Terms Flashcards

11303891028	lyre	a greek stringed instrument; predecessor to the harp	0
11303897809	Consonance	the repetition of consonant sounds in a series of words	1
11303906683	masculine rhyme	A rhyme ending on the final stressed syllable	2
11303913989	Femenine Rhyme	A rhyme with the final syllables unstressed	3
11303934751	Enjambment	the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.	4
11303937881	spectral	of or like a ghost	5
11303960037	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	6
11303964547	sardonic	grimly mocking or cynical	7
11657508239	Conceit	extended metaphor	8
11657517728	Iamb	a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.	9
11657523675	iambic pentameter	a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable	10
11657552209	invocation	a call (usually upon a higher power) for assistance, support, or inspiration	11
11657559641	Apostrophe	a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction	12
11657565236	arcane	understood by few; mysterious or secret	13
11657570913	explicit metaphor	directly equates the comparison in the metaphor	14
11657581059	Exact/True/Perfect Rhyme	When the stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds.	15
11657587875	slant/half rhyme	imperfect, approximate rhyme (ex. "sea" and "beak" "rain" and "again")	16
11657594343	inchoate	not fully formed; disorganized	17
11657598885	internal rhyme	a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.	18
11657612969	disseminate	to scatter or spread widely	19
11657612970	polemical	causing debate or argument	20
11657618143	irreparable	incapable of being repaired	21
11657618144	falliable	capable of being wrong, mistaken, or inaccurate	22
11657622884	self-deprecating	modest about or critical of oneself, especially humorously so	23
11657622885	acerbic	biting, bitter in tone or taste, sharp	24
12309528556	terza rima	"3 rhyme" 3 lines, scheme is aba, bcb	25
12309544914	heroic couplet	2 lines in iambic pentameter, with lofty language	26
12309556493	fastidious	very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail	27
12368452623	Allegory	A song, story or poem that represents something else	28
12368456743	Anectdote	brief story about an interesting event, narrative	29
12368459240	Apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	30
12368467852	Asyndeton	lack of conjunctions	31
12368482260	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	32
12368490533	incorrigible	difficult to change	33
12368497407	laudatory	expressing praise	34
12368503253	valiant	brave, courageous	35
12368507156	temerity	rashness, boldness	36
12368509611	wistfulness	having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing	37
12489065396	mercer	A dealer of fabrics and fine materials	38
12489073233	solicitous	showing interest, care, or concern	39
12489078284	officious	intrusively helpful	40
12489085271	cloying	sickly sweet; excessive	41
12489089227	vigilant	watchful	42
12489089228	obsequious	overly submissive and eager to please	43
12489093101	perturbed	anxious or unsettled; upset	44
12489103240	incredulous	skeptical, doubtful	45
12489107080	disillusioned	disappointed	46
12489107081	bemused	lost in thought	47
12489110883	ingratiate	to gain another's favor by flattery or false friendliness	48
12489116543	interior monologue	a piece of writing expressing a character's inner thoughts	49
12489128875	stream of consciousness	A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.	50
12489139204	missive	a long, official letter	51
12489142741	underscore	(v) emphasize (or, literally, to underline text)	52
12489146025	obtuse	annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand	53
12549742219	morose	sullen and ill-tempered	54
12549745429	surreptitious	secret, stealthy	55
12549750710	philanderer	one who engages in love affairs lightly or insincerely	56
12549754811	penurious	destitute, poor	57
12549759219	libidinous	lustful	58
12549762693	meek	quiet, gentle, and easily imposed on; submissive.	59
12549762694	astute	(adj.) shrewd, crafty, showing practical wisdom	60
12549766747	ardor	enthusiasm or passion	61
12549779176	venality	openness to bribery or corruption	62
12549782249	Oxymoron	two words or phrases juxtaposed with one another that seem to contradict each other	63
12549794794	Paradox	an idea that seems to contradict itself	64
12549802052	Colloquialism	the use of ordinary or familiar words or phrases in a particular area	65
12549811963	malapropism	a word humorously misused	66
12549824418	slander	False charges and malicious oral statements about someone	67
12549832054	amorous	sexual desire	68
12549835848	ambivalent	having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone	69
12549843472	wily	skilled at deceit and gaining an advantage	70
12549856131	guileful	deceitful, cunning, sly	71
12549858747	unrequited	not returned	72
12639347741	Protagonist	Main character in a story	73
12639347743	magnanimous	generous in forgiving	74
12639350952	acrimonious	angry and bitter	75
12639373095	dispassionate	unemotional	76
12639381566	euphony	beautiful sound	77
12639388842	grandiloquent	pompous or high-flown in speech	78
12639402821	provincial	narrow-minded	79
12639402822	tenuous	weak	80
12862228740	mitigate	to make less severe	81
12862241544	discernment	the ability to judge well	82
12862241545	excoriate	to criticize severely	83
12862245403	boon	a gift or blessing	84
12862248673	hapless	unfortunate	85
12862252572	unfettered	free, unrestrained	86
12862267544	temerity	rashness, boldness	87
12862271468	resilience	the ability to recover quickly	88
12862278714	timorous	timid	89
12862281571	resolute	determined	90
12862287157	penitent	regretful	91
13031591658	Immutability	unable to change	92
13031597255	mutability	ability to change	93
13031605039	Variability	the ability to change; lack of consistency	94
13031615892	Epistrophe	Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	95
13031622333	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	96
13031625263	Antithesis	Direct opposite	97
13031640477	droll	dryly amusing	98
13031670027	Eschatology	the theology of the end of the age	99
13031678211	Cosmogony	A theory of the origin of the universe	100
13031683855	Teleology	the study of design or purpose in natural phenomena	101
13031690074	Hermeneutics	the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.	102
13031694800	apostasy	rejection of faith	103
13031698526	ephemeral	short-lived	104
13031701691	theism	belief in a god or gods	105
13031718741	Atheism	The denial of the existence of God	106
13031723312	Deism	belief in a supreme being that does not interfere	107
13031736640	Agnosticism	Not being sure whether God exists	108
13031740061	Animism	the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects and natural phenomena	109
13127555461	anachronism	something out of place in time	110
13127560545	ode	A poem that celebrates a person or thing	111
13127609407	Ballad	a poem that tells a story	112
13127613107	Sonnet	14 line poem that rhymes	113
13127618978	admonition	warning	114
13127622162	Lyric	a musical and emotional poem	115
13127626267	vehement	passionate	116
13127629646	maudlin	overly sentimental	117
13127632683	ephermal	short-lived	118
13217641514	Diction	word choice	119
13217682126	fatalistic	believing that all events in life are inevitable and determined by fate	120
13546270259	Overture	introduction to a poem	121
13546272953	denouement	the final part of a story that ties up all loose ends	122
13546283754	Coda	concluded event or remarks of a poem, an epilougue	123
13546291643	Appositive	the fat of a sentenfe	124
13546295804	epithet	title or nickname	125
13546299625	reticent	hesitant	126
13546303497	admonishing	warning	127
13546307255	conciliatory	trying to keep one from anger	128
13546309565	iamb	unstressed, stressed	129
13546315143	Trochee	stressed, unstressed	130
13546320118	slant rhyme	A rhyming sound that is not exact.	131
13546325991	Caesura	dramatic pause	132
13546350139	refrain	A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem.	133
13546359079	indifferent	Having no preference	134
13546363124	ambivalence	mixed feelings or emotions	135
13546369899	coy	shy	136
13546369900	em dash	denotes a pause	137
13546372584	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	138
13631901380	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order	139
13631903859	mercurial	moody	140
13631906511	santimonious	pretending to be righteous	141
13631910736	promiscuous	loose, sexually uncontrolled	142