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AP English Vocab. #1
Vocabulary List #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as seen in its beliefs and aspirations, morals and ethics | ethos (ethical appeals) |
| a quality that evokes pity or sadness | pathos (emotional appeals) |
| the principle that governs and develops the universe, usually facts or statistics | logos (logical appeals) |
| the art of skilled, eloquent public speaking | oratory |
| a person skilled in powerful public speaking | orator |
| a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation | aphorism |
| the act of conceding or yielding, as a right, a privilege, or a point or fact in an argument | concession |
| an extravagant statement or figure of speech, not intended to be taken literally, overstatement | hyperbole |
| representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts; understate the obvious | understatement |
| a character that contrasts the 2nd character that highlights certain qualities of that 1st character | foil |
| resemblance of sounds, vowel rhyme, repetition of vowel sounds | assonance (the sleeping bee...) |
| the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words | alliteration |
| the choice of a particular word as opposed to others | diction |
| the way in which words are put together to form phrases, word order | syntax |
| an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong | anachronism |
| form of extended metaphor, objects, persons, actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself | allegory |
| brief reference to a person, event, place, work of art... mythology, literature, history | allusion |
| a trite phrase that has become overused | cliche |
| misleading, or false notion, belief | fallacy |
| a story in which the protagonist undergoes growth throughout the entire narrative | bildungsroman |
| offensively condescending manner | patronizing |
| learned, polished, scholarly | erudite |
| hopeful, cheerful | optimistic |
| seeing the worst side of things; no hope | pessimistic |
| odd, strange, fantastic; fun | whimsical |
| treating a subject with honor and respect | reverent |
| happy | jovial |
| an unbiased view- able to leave personal judgments aside | objective |
| characteristic of an individual | subjective |
| purposely hurtful | malicious |
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