AP LANG VOCAB 3 KETTERLING

Eloquent

marked by forceful and fluent expression

Futile

serving no useful purpose; completely ineffective

Impede

to interfere with or slow the progress of

Dogmatic

expressing opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts

Capricious

impulsive; unpredictable

Intrepid

characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance

Juxtaposition

placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect

Anaphora

repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses

Invective

insulting or abusive language

Parallelism

sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns