Ap English Midterms Words

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lugubrious

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sad, gloomy, mournful

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mocking

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teasing or laughing in a scornful manner

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moralistic

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ideals of right human contact

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mournful

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expressing sadness, regret or grief

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nostalgic

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sentimental yearning for the past

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pedantic

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ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules

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petty

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undue concern for trivial manners

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pretentious

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attempting to impress by affecting greater importance than is possessed

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sardonic

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grimly mocking or cynical

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satirical

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using irony or ridicule

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solemn

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formally not cheerful or smiling; serious

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somber

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grave and dark mood

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taunting

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provoking or challenging with insulting remarks

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turgid

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tediously pompous or bombastic

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urbane

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polite, refined and elegant in manner

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logos

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using logic to persuade

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pathos

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persuading by using emotional appeals

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ethos

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using credibility of speaker to persuade

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types of persuasion

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ethos, logos, pathos

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appeals of persuasion

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narratio, exodium, confirmatio, confutatio, peroratio

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narratio

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speaker provides a narrative account of what happened

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exordium

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the introduction part of the appeal

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confirmatio

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main argument where logic is used

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confutatio

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answering the counter arguments of the opponents

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peroratio

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summing up the argument

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anadiplosis

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repetition of the last word to begin the next clause

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anaphora

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repetition of words at the beginning of neighboring clauses

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anthimeria

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us of one part of speech for another

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antimetabole

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repetition of words in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order

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antithesis

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contrasting ideas by means of parallel words.

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apposition

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placing nouns side by side, with one defining the other

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chiasmus

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ABBA "Fair is foul. Foul is Fair"

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erotema

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rhetorical question

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metonymy

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one word substitutes for another with a close meaning

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paralipsis

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an idea is emphasized by the pretence that it is too obvious

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paronomasia

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pun= using a word in a different sense to achieve humor

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polyptoton

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repetition of words derived from the same root word but with different endings

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schemes

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figure of speech that deals with word order, syntax,letters, sounds

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synecdoche

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one part is used for the whole

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tropes

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figure pf speech that deals with the meaning of words

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characterization

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method used by narrators to develop characters

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connotation

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commonly understood emotional association that a word carries

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denotation

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explicit or literal meaning

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diction

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word choice

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dramatic "i"

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irony that is understood by the audience but not the characters in the play

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irony

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situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions

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satire

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verbal, situational, dramatic
sarcasm or ridicule in exposing vice

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syntax

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formation of grammatical sentences in a

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tone

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attitude towards the subject in a literary work

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voice

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individual writing style of an author

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kenning

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compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete word

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persona

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social role of character of someone

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sarcasm

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sharp, satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain