AP Lit Vocab final

Blunder in conduct, manners, speech, etc.

Indirect, implied, or implicit.

Asserting opinions as if they are facts.

Cutting or division into two; division of mutually exclusive ideas or groups.

Extreme exaggeration.

Adopt; support; to advocate as though one's own.

unimpressed; bored.

Double-dealing; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.

A statement that contradicts itself but may nonetheless be truth.

A humorous play on words that can have many different meanings.

A guess or supposition.

A short account of a humorous or interesting incident.

To pacify or sooth; to satisfy; to give in to.

Lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme.

Lines that do not have regular meter and do not contain rhyme.

Bold or daring.

Lack of variety or excitement.

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables established in a line of poetry.

Forcibly pulled away.

Predicament affording no escape; impassible road.

Used in ordinary or informal conversion; not formal or literary.

Frankness; being candid.

Opinion contrary to popular belief (religion).

Strong dislike; aversion; strong revulsion.

About to happen; upcoming.

Work that makes fun of another work by imitating some aspect of the writer's style.

A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line (in poetry).

Not easily upset or excited; calm; bland.

Word choice, type of words, and the level of language.

To misunderstand the meaning of.

Refers to something or someone well-known.

Word or phrase to which a pronoun refers.

To weaken or make feeble; deplete one's strength.

Excessive speed or urgency in movement.

Quiet, gentle, easily imposed upon.

Time of greatest success; prime.

Attempting to avoid notice or attention because of guilt.

Showing and flashy but lacking good taste.

To make less severe; appease or moderate.

rambling; not speaking on the given subject.

Abounding or swarming with something, as with people.

Knowledge or mythology passed down through oral traditions.

Quack; pretender to knowledge; a fake; claims to possess a given level of knowledge or skill.

Figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

A poem of lamentation about a death.

Lying, untruthful.

Act of halting or squelching.

Irritatingly grand; self-important.

Increase in size, extent or scope.

Stylish.

A person or area that is poor.

Scathing; very sarcastic in a negative manner.

Figure of speech that makes a surprising connection between two seemingly dissimilar things.

Running over hastily.

A large, open area.

Narrative poem composed of quatrains.

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance than possessed.

Direct contrast; opposition; opposite.

Disheveled; uncared for in appearance.

To expose the falseness of something or someone.

Friendly, lively and enjoyable.

Says the opposite of what is intended or expected.

Unable to be affected.

Unusual or old-fashioned.

Word order and sentence structure.

Appeal to emotions.

Bring about strong images, memories or feelings to mind.

Practical; not idealistic; concerned with the practical worth or impact of something.

Not in harmony; out of place.

To move beyond the natural limits of.

The audience/reader knows something the character does not.

An overused expression or notion.

Refined and well-educated.

Without the desired effect.

A short poem that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral one.

Unfeeling or insensitive.

The use of humor to ridicule the shortcomings and failings of society, individuals.

Having the quality of being excessively concerned with minor details and rules.

Pandemonium; confusion; chaos.

An uneasy feeling of guilt, worry or fear.

Totally clear; definite.

Worshiping idols or false gods.

Emphasis on ineffectiveness and powerlessness.

Exclamatory passage addressed to an absent or dead person or thing.

Short period of rest or calm.

An unhappy person.

Of or relating to rural or shepherd life.

To sharpen or improve.

Near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical, but not the vowels.

Repetition of the same vowel sounds in poetry.

Lack of caring; indifference.

Word for word; exact.

Open to or having several possible meanings.

Deep respect.

Verse with end rhyme and usually with a regular, consistent meter.

Merciful or decisive finishing stroke.

One thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified.

Moment of sudden insight or revelation.

A character, symbol that is familiar to people because it occurs frequently in literature, myth

Shade of differencing in meaning or color.