AP Lit Unit 3 Vocab

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Allude (v)

suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at.

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Carping (adj)

tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; difficult to please; critical.

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Delineate (v)

to describe, portray, or set forth with accuracy or in detail; to indicate the exact position of (a border or boundary).

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Elicit (v)

to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response)

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Incendiary (adj)

deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion. (n) one who deliberately sets fires; arsonist; one who causes strife

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Inept (adj)

having or showing no skill; clumsy

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Maelstrom (n)

a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation or state of confused movement or violent turmoil.

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Myopic (adj)

nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

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Pejorative (adj)

expressing contempt, disapproval, or disparagement; derogatory and belittling

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Vacillate (v)

to waver in mind, will, or feeling: hesitate in choice of opinions or courses

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Antihero (n)

central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes, lacking courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples

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Assonance (n)

the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are together

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Connotation (n)

the associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase, in addition to its strict dictionary definition

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Epigraph (n)

a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work, suggestive of the theme

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Enjambment (n)

any line of poetry that does not end in a punctuation mark

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