Ap lang Midterm Vocab

Contrite

Feeling very sorry and guilty for something bad that you have done

Tone

the author's attitude towards the subject (e.g., sarcastic, serious, joyful) conveyed through word choice

Mood

The overall feeling or ambiance evoked in the reader by the work

Despondent

unhappy and with no hope

Hegemony

the position of being the strongest and most powerful and can control others

Supercilious

behaving as if you are better then other people and that their opinions are not important

Puerile

behaving in a silly way not like an adult

Stultify

to prevent something or someone developing

August

having great importance and highest social class

enscoce

to make yourself very comfortable or safe in a place or position

Grim

Extremely bad, worrying or without hope, foreboding, uninviting

Irreverent

Not showing the expected respect for an official, important, or holy things, and unconcern with acting with respect

Ebullient

very energetic, positive, and happy, effervescent

Ardent

showing strong feelings, loud, passionate

Histrionic

showing a lot of emotions in order to persuade others or attract attention, negative

Didactic

Intended to teach, or improve morals by teaching

Scornful

showing or feeling scorn for something or someone; expressing depression

Elegiac

relating to or similar to an elegy (a sad poem or song especially remembering someone who has died or something in the past)

Sarcasm

remarks that means the opposite of what they say, made to criticize someone or something in a way that is amusing to others

Ethos

establishes credibility and trust, explaining why a person or organization is a reliable authority on a topic

Pathos

the use of emotion to persuade someone of your beliefs and opinions

Logos

a literacy device that can be described as a fax, excerpts, cause-and-effect, sequence, statement, sentence, or argument used to convince or persuade the Target audience by employing logic

Verbal Irony

irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another

3rd person limited

the POV that uses a narrator with access to only one or two characters perspectives

Situational Irony

Irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended

Dramatic Irony

A literacy device by which the audiences or readers understanding of events or individuals in a work suppresses that of its characters

Active voice

clarity and directness

Passive Voice

empassive the action or recipient or when the doer is unknown or irrelevant

3rd person objective POV

The narrator reports the events that take place without knowing the motivations or thoughts of any of the characters

3rd person Omniscent POV

The narrator knows every character’s thoughts, feelings, and motivations

Vapid

showing no intelligence or imagination

Galvanize

to cause someone to take action, especially by shocking or exciting them

Laconic

using few words to express what you mean

Indignant

angry because of something that is wrong or not fair

Redolent

smelling strongly of something or having qualities that make you think of something else

Overt

done or shown publicly or in a obvious way and not secret

Temerity

a willingness to do or say something that shocks or upsets other people

Poignant

causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness

Internecine

an conflict within a single group, religion, or country, often involving bloody fighting or warfare

Putative

Generally thought to be or to exists, even if this may not be really true

Obfuscate

to make something less clear and harder to understand, especially internally