AP Multiple Choice Vocab

Question 1

Malevolent

Answer 1

Wishing evil or harm to others

Question 2

Bountiful

Answer 2

Liberal in bestowing gifts,generous; abundant ample

Question 3

Benevolent

Answer 3

Expressing goodwill or kindness; charitable

Question 4

Understatement

Answer 4

Affirmative expressed by the negation of opposite

Ex. She is tall.

Understatement: She is not short.

Question 5

Aphorism

Answer 5

Statement that expresses general truth or moral principle;summation of authors point

Ex. If you mess with the bull, you’ll get the horns.

Question 6

Morbidity

Answer 6

Unhealthy metal state or attitude; characteristic of disease

Question 7

Suspense

Answer 7

Mental uncertainty or excitement

Question 8

Apostrophe

Answer 8

Figure of speech that addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction such as liberty or love

Question 9

Aposiopesis

Answer 9

Unfinished thought ( can end with … or -)

Question 10

Anastrophe

Answer 10

S-V-O (I like potatoes) changed to O-S-V (Potatoes I like)

Question 11

Apposition

Answer 11

Noun phrase placed after another

Ex. Mia,a cat, meows.

Placement of opposites side by side

Ex. The angel flies high in the sky while the devil creeps stealthy below.

Question 12

Isocola

Answer 12

Sentence with parallel structure

Ex. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Question 13

Existentialism

Answer 13

Philosophical movement stressing importance of personal experience

Question 14

Surrealism

Answer 14

Stressing subconscious or nonrational significance of imagery

Question 15

Allegory

Answer 15

Story elements or characters symbolically present abstraction in addition to literal meaning

Question 16

Asyndeton

Answer 16

Conjunctions omitted from text

Ex. I came, I saw, I conquered

Question 17

Polysyndeton

Answer 17

Using conjunctions in close succession in order to slow rhythm