AP Language Composition Flashcards | StudBudAP Language Composition
Reading comprehension
212
- stupid men are usually married
- poor and impoverished women rarely have husbands
- difficult and intemperate women have men to care for them
- drunken and unkind men abuse women but rarely
39
- Women
- Age
- Hypocrisy
- Bad Habits
413
- good for cleaning and they can burn
- good for cleaning and are nonrational
- nonrational and last a long time
- easy to store somewhere and last a long time
53
- furious
- irreverent
- sympathetic
- detached
66
- a book of wisdom left on a dusty shelf
- a religious saint seeking to rid the world of evil
- a fool goaded by vanity
- an unappreciated provider, husband, and father
714
- all different ways people gossip about one another
- God's wrath attacking human error
- a man attacking the wickedness of others
- a man slowly deteriorating
88
- persons of sentiment and compassion
- creatures prone to judge favorable the faults of others
- beings who favor their own opinions and find faults in other
- religious creatures sent to live a life worthy of God
910
- is deeply worried about our collective future
- wants to emphasize the ludicrous nature of man
- is trying to make important what he knows is not
- is so angry that he feels like screaming
1011
- "and left him with a withered trunk" (line 19)
- "a remor of greviences" (line 34)
- "condemned to do her drudgery" (line 19)
- "grovelling on the earth" (line 32)
1115
- Sadness
- Antipathy
- Admiration
- Discontent
125
- systematic
- careless
- unequal
- unpredictable
134
- alert the reader to the change of argument
- emphasize the humor of the analogy
- seek a rhetorical response to developing question
- switch tenses to assert the power of history
142
- a dirty mop
- an upside-down tree
- kindling
- a bat or kind of weapon
157
- "proper branches" (line 17)
- "a topsyturvy creature" (line 30)
- "puts on a periwig" (lines 19-20)
- "raises a mighty dust" (line 36)
