Ap English Vocabulary For Midterm

Front 1

Figurative Language
(Figures of Speech)

Back 1

Language that departs from the literal level of meaning

Front 2

Simile

Back 2

Comparison of one thing to another using "like" or "as"
ex. "my love is like a red, red rose"

Front 3

Metaphor

Back 3

Comparison that does not use "like or as"
ex. "my love is a rose"
NOTE: An extended metaphor would continue the comparison (her skin is petals, etc.)

Front 4

Personification

Back 4

Human qualities that are attributed to things that are not human such as plants or animals
ex. "the trees waved their arms wildly"

Front 5

Symbol

Back 5

Something (a concrete subject) that retains its own identity while simultaneously referring to one or more other meanings, usually abstract
ex. Yeats used the rose as a symbol of England; the letter is a symbol in "The Scarlet Letter" (it's an actual physical object but can also be seen as a symbol of Adultery, Able, America, independence, sin, etc.)

Front 6

Allegory

Back 6

A story that is entirely symbolic (characters tend to be symbols).
ex. Orwell's "Animal Farm", John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"

Front 7

Onomatopoeia

Back 7

A word that sounds like the sound it describes
ex. buzz, hum

Front 8

Alliteration

Back 8

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words
ex. "the crackling of the confounded coconut", "the slithering of the slimy snake"
NOTE: This is common in English poetry; in Old English poems like "Beowulf," every line has alliteration.

Front 9

Assonance

Back 9

Repeated vowel sounds.
ex. "low moan"
NOTE: Often this provides a soothing effect, while alliteration provides a more percussive effect.

Front 10

Imagery

Back 10

Descriptive language that refers to sense impressions (primarily visual, but also for sounds, tastes, etc.)

Front 11

Apostrophe

Back 11

A direct address to someone (including a divinity) or something, typically using "O" or "!" or both.
ex. "Bright star! World I were steadfast as thou art!", "O Muse, inspire me!"

Front 12

Allusion

Back 12

A reference to an earlier work or event. Most are to earlier literature, but they may also be to historical events.
ex. In "Bridget Jones's Diary", one character is named Mr. Darcy, and have other situations that reflect "Pride and Prejudice".

Front 13

Rhyme

Back 13

May be "slant" or "off" rhyme: two words that almost rhyme, but not quite.

Front 14

Foot

Back 14

The unit of the poetic line, often comprising two or three syllables.

Front 15

Kinds of feet:
1) Iambic:
2) Trochaic:
3) Dactylic:
4) Anapest:
5) Trochee:

Back 15

1) Unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable
2) Stressed followed by unstressed
3) Stressed followed by two unstressed
4) Two unstressed followed by stressed
5) two stressed syllables

Front 16

Number of feet (Names come from Greek):
1) Monometer:
2) Dimeter:
3) Trimeter:
4) Tetrameter:
5) Pentameter:
6) Hexameter:
7) Heptameter:

Back 16

1) 1 feet
2) 2 feet
3) 3 feet
4) 4 feet
5) 5 feet
6) 6 feet
7) 7 feet

NOTE: For serious metrical verse in English, the most common pattern is iambic pentameter. This is used by Shakespeare.

Front 17

One key characteristic of poetry is that in poems the lines break before the margin. Lines may be:
1) End-stopped:
2) Enjambed:

Back 17

1) Ending with a mark of punctuation
2) No punctuation at end of a line; meaning flows over the line break

Front 18

Caesura

Back 18

Clear break (often indicated by a punctuation mark such as a semi-colon, colon, or period) in the middle of a line.

Front 19

Vocabulary from Wuthering Heights:
1) physiognomy
2) vexatious
3) propitiate
4) laconic
5) querulous
6) reprobate
7) virulence
8) miscreant
9) obviate
10) copious
11) condole
12) homily
13) curate
14) palaver
15) asseverate
16) lachrymose
17) maxillary
18) changeling
19) vehemence
20) vindictive

Back 19

1) face
2) annoying
3) conciliate, appease
4) terse
5) given to complaining
6) person without morals
7) antagonism, hostility
8) villain
9) render unnecessary
10) abundant
11) express sympathy
12) sermon
13) clergyman who has charge of a parish
14) idle chatter
15) assert
16) tearful
17) having to do with the upper jaw
18) a child secretly exchanged with another
19) forcefulness or intensity of emotion
20) inclined to revenge

Front 20

Latin and Greek Roots (Prefixes):
1) a,ab-
2) ad
3) de-
4) e,ex-
5) eu
6) in
7) meta
8) re-
9) sub-
10) tele
11) trans

Back 20

1) away from
2) towards
3) down from
4) out from
5) good (Greek)
6) not or in
7) beyond
8) again
9) under
10) far off
11) across

Front 21

Verbs and Nouns:
1) Cedo, cedare, cedi, cessus (v)
2) Capio, capire, cepi, captus (v)
3) Cogito, cogitare (v)
4) Cor (n)
5) Corpus, corpora (n)
6) Credo, credare, credi (v)
7) Curro, currare (v)
8) Dico, dicere, dixi, dictus (v)
9) Duco, ducere, duxi, ductus (v)
10) Facio, facere, feci, factus (v)
11) Graph (n)
12) Loquor, loquitor, locutus (v)
13) Mitto, mittere, misi, missus (v)
14) Scribo, scribere, scripsi, scriptus (v)
15) Specto, spectare, spectatus (v)
16) Tempus, tempora (n)
17) Voco, vocare, vocatus (v)

Back 21

1) yield
2) take, hold, grasp
3) to know, to think
4) heart
5) body
6) believe, trust
7) run
8) to say, speak, assert
9) to lead
10) to make, to do
11) writing
12) speak
13) to send
14) to write
15) to look at, behold
16) time
17) to call

Front 22

Prefixes (Latin except where otherwise indicated):
1) ambi
2) anti
3) ante
4) archa
5) bi
6) circum-
7) co-
8) contra-
9) dia
10) hier
11) hyper
12) hypo
13) meta
14) neo
15) omni
16) pan
17) para
18) peri
19) post

Back 22

1) around, both
2) against (Greek)
3) before
4) ancient (Greek)
5) two
6) around
7) with
8) against
9) through, across (Greek)
10) sacred (Greek)
11) above
12) less than
13) beyond
14) new
15) all
16) all
17) beyond
18) around
19) after

Front 23

Verbs and Nouns:
1) Ago, agere, egi, actus (v)
2) Animus, -a, -um (n)
3) Fides (n)
4) Fluvus (n)
5) Fumo, fumare (v)
6) Gens (n)
7) Habeo, habere (v)
8) Jus, juris (n)
9) Logos (n)
10) Mor, mores (n)
11) Mortare, mortatus (v)
12) Mundus, munda, mundum (n)
13) Nomen, nominis (n)
14) Null, nihil (n)
15) Patria (n)
16) Pax, pacis (n)
17) Porto, portare, portus (v)
18) Pono, ponere, posui, positus (v)
19) Teneo, tenire, teni, tentus (v)
20) Venio, venire, veni, ventus (v)
21) Video, videre, vidi, visus (v)
22) Vinco, vincere, vici, victus (v)
23) Vivo, vivere, vivi, vitus (v)

Back 23

1) to act
2) life, mind
3) faith
4) river
5) to smoke
6) race, family, kind
7) have, hold, dwell
8) law, right
9) word
10) custom
11) to die
12) world
13) name
14) nothing
15) homeland
16) peace
17) to carry
18) to place, put
19) to hold
20) to come, approach
21) to see, to look
22) to conquer
23) to live