Ap English Vocab

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Vituerative

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Scolding or talking about in an extremly harsh way

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Ubiquitous

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Everywhere at the same time

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Obsequious

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overly obedient; submissive

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Rectitude

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correctness

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Inauspicious

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Unlucky; not boding well for the future

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Eclipsis

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the omission of essential grammatical elements

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Lugubriousness

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sadness or mournfulness espicially in an exaggerated way

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Burlesque

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comically imitation, parodying

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Staid

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quiet, dignified, and serious

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Recondity

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dealing with difficult subjects

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Paltry

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practically worthless, insignificant

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Profundity

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intellectual depth

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Trepidation

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anxious uncertainty

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Ostentation

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conspicuous display

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Presentiment

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A feeling that something, especially of evil nature, is about to happen

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Litotes

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A rhetorical figure in which an assertion is made by means of negation or understatement; an ironic understatement. It contains an understatement for emphasis, and is therefore the opposite of hyperbole

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Aphorism

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A brief, sententious statement of a truth or principle. A brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of principle, or precept given in pointed words

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Allusion

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A casual and brief reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event

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Alliteration

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The recurrence of initial consonant sounds

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Simile

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A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, in such a way as to clarify and enhance an image

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech consisting of the form of antithesis in which, for emphasis or in an eplgram

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech consisiting of that form of antithesis in which, for emphasis or in an elpgram, contradictory terms are brought sharply together

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Epigraph

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In literation, it is a moto or quotation at the beginning of a book, play, chapter, or poem

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Acrid

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bitter, irritating

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Chiasmus

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In rhetoric, a contrast by parallelism in reverse order. It is crossing parallelism, where the 2nd part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first, only in reverse order

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Allegory

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A sustained metaphor continued through whole sentences or even through a whole discourse

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Conceit

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An elaborate, usually intellectually ingenious poetic comparison or image, such as an analogy or metaphor

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which the part stands for the whole, and thus something else is understood within the thing mentioned

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Syllogism

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Deduction, from two propostions containing 3 terms of which one appears in both, of a conclusion that is true if they are true

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Euphemism

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The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one

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Metonymy

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Uses something more generally or loosely associated with a concept to stand in for it

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Parrallelism

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Consists of phrases or sentences of similar construction and meaning placed side by side, balancing each other

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Anecdote

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A brief account of a story about an individual or an incident

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Symbolism

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An object, animate, or inanimate, which represents or stands for something else

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Paradox

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An apparently self-contradictory statement which, on closer inspection, is found to contain a truth reconciling the conflicting opposites

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Hyperbole

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Poetic or rhetorical overstatement; exaggeration used for emphasis; it can be used to heighten effect, it catalyze recognition, or create humorous perception

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Metaphor

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A rhetorical trope where a comparison is made between two seemingly unrelated subjects

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Onomatopoeia

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The formation and use of words to imitate sounds

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Repetition

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An essential unifying element in nearly all poetry and much prose. It may consist of sounds, particular syllables and words, phrases, stanzas, metrical patterns, ideas, and shapes that are repeated

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Illusion

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An unreal image seemingly presented to the senses - any misleading appearance; false perception; the act of deceiving or misleading by false appearances

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Synesthesia

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The juxaposition of one sensory image with another image that appears to an unrelated sense

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Delusion

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Commonly defined as a false belief, and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception

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Personification

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The metaphorical representation of an animal or inanimate object as having human attributes - attributes of form, character, feelings, behavior, and so on

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Asyndeton

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The omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythem or vehement effect

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Polysyndeton

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The repetition of conjunctions. Employing many conjunctions between clauses, often slowing the tempos or rhythm