AP Lit Vocab final

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

Worshiping idols or false gods.

A statement that contradicts itself but may nonetheless be truth.

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

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

Knowledge or mythology passed down through oral traditions.

Irritatingly grand; self-important.

An overused expression or notion.

A short account of a humorous or interesting incident.

Short period of rest or calm.

Unable to be affected.

Unusual or old-fashioned.

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

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

A large, open area.

Narrative poem composed of quatrains.

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

Running over hastily.

Shade of differencing in meaning or color.

Word or phrase to which a pronoun refers.

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

Merciful or decisive finishing stroke.

Lying, untruthful.

Pandemonium; confusion; chaos.

Unfeeling or insensitive.

The audience/reader knows something the character does not.

An unhappy person.

Open to or having several possible meanings.

A poem of lamentation about a death.

Excessive speed or urgency in movement.

Refined and well-educated.

Figure of speech in which contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Not easily upset or excited; calm; bland.

Predicament affording no escape; impassible road.

Not in harmony; out of place.

Without the desired effect.

To move beyond the natural limits of.

Bold or daring.

Lack of caring; indifference.

Repetition of the same vowel sounds in poetry.

Word for word; exact.

Of or relating to rural or shepherd life.

Abounding or swarming with something, as with people.

Double-dealing; hypocrisy; deceitfulness.

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

Stylish.

Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance than possessed.

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

Friendly, lively and enjoyable.

Lack of variety or excitement.

Moment of sudden insight or revelation.

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

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

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

Lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme.

About to happen; upcoming.

Appeal to emotions.

Bring about strong images, memories or feelings to mind.

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

To sharpen or improve.

Opinion contrary to popular belief (religion).

Says the opposite of what is intended or expected.

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

To expose the falseness of something or someone.

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

A guess or supposition.

To misunderstand the meaning of.

An uneasy feeling of guilt, worry or fear.

Asserting opinions as if they are facts.

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

Scathing; very sarcastic in a negative manner.

Extreme exaggeration.

Deep respect.

To make less severe; appease or moderate.

Frankness; being candid.

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

rambling; not speaking on the given subject.

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

Forcibly pulled away.

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

Direct contrast; opposition; opposite.

Quiet, gentle, easily imposed upon.

Strong dislike; aversion; strong revulsion.

Showing and flashy but lacking good taste.

Refers to something or someone well-known.

Attempting to avoid notice or attention because of guilt.

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

Totally clear; definite.

Word order and sentence structure.

Emphasis on ineffectiveness and powerlessness.

Indirect, implied, or implicit.

A person or area that is poor.

Act of halting or squelching.

Disheveled; uncared for in appearance.

Blunder in conduct, manners, speech, etc.

Increase in size, extent or scope.

unimpressed; bored.

Time of greatest success; prime.

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

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