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AP Vocab 4/10 Flashcards

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Homily

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Sermon

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Sardonic

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Scornful mocking; disdainfully humorous

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Aphorism

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Pithy saying embodying a general truth

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Hyperbole

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Exaggeration

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Parallelism

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The use of identical or equivalent syntactic constructions in corresponding clauses or phrases

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Paradox

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A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

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Parable

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A short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson

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Derisive

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Contemptuous, mocking

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Disingenuous

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Lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere

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Chiasmus

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A reversal in the of words in two otherwise parallel phrase

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it’s related.

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special.

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Vicissitude

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Change, especially in fortune

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Spoonerism

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The transportation of initial or the other sounds of words, usually by accidents

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Malapropism

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An act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, esp. By the confusion of words that are similar in sound.

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Argumentum ad absurdum (argument from pity or misery)

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The fallacy committed when pity or a related emotion such as sympathy compassion is appealed to for the sake of getting a conclusion accepted.

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Reductio ad absurdum

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A reduction to an absurdity; the refutation of a proposition by demonstrating the inevitably absurd conclusion to which it would logically lead

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Argumentum ad hominem (abusive and circumstantial)

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The fallacy of attacking the character or circumstances of an individual who is advancing a statement or an argument instead of trying to disprove the truth of the statement or the soundness or the argument. Characterized as a personal attack.

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Non sequitur

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  1. An inference that does not follow from the premises; a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and it’s consequent
  2. A statement that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said
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Pathos

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The quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.

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Bathos

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Insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness

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Ethos

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Persuasion through convincing listeners of ones moral competence

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Logos

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An argument on logos needs to be logical and normally implies numbers, polls, and other mathematical or scientific data.

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Apostrophe

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A digression in the form of an address to someone not present or to a personified object or idea

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Ambivalence

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The coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.

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Castigate

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To criticize or reprimand severely

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Lugubrious

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Mournful, dismal, or gloomy in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner.

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Supercilious

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Haughtily disdainful or contemptuous as a person or facial expression

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Cryptic

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Mysterious in meaning; puzzling, ambiguous

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Didactic

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Intended for instruction; inclined to teach or lecture others too much

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Incongruous

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Not congruous; disagreeing or inharmonious in character

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Pious

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Having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations

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Obdurate

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Stubborn

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Coquettish

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Flirtatious

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Flippant

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Frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity

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Self aggrandizing

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Exhibiting self importance

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Vitriolic

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Very caustic, scathing

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Disparagement

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Something that derogates or casts in a bad light, as a remark or censorious essay

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Litotes

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Ironic understatement

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Lambaste

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To reprimand or berate harshly; censure, excoriate

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Pragmatic

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Practical

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Periphrasis

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Adding in superfluous words to extend the message you are trying to give “beating around the bush”

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Juxtaposition

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An act or instance of placing close together or side by side or comparison or contrast. OR A state of being close together side by side

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Pathetic fallacy

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The attribution of human traits to nature or inanimate objects

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Bildungsroman

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A story in which the protagonist undergoes growth throughout the entire narrative, generally starting off by being removed or chased from their home. Their growth is often impeded by opposition of their desires by other characters

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Avarice

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Greed

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Mendacious

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Telling lies habitually

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Opprobrium

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The disgrace or reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful; infamy

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Mercurial

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Changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic

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Idyll

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A poem or prose composition, usually describing pastoral scenes or events or any charming simple episode, appealing incident

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Epigram

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Any witty, ingenious, or pointer saying tersely expressed

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