Terms 1
Braggart
What is a person who boasts about achievements or possessions?
A slight objection or criticism about a trivial matter
What is Quibble?
The length of the AP Lang exam
What is 3 hours and 15 minutes?
Conceding or dismissing alternative viewpoints
What is Concession?
Poignant
What is evoking a keenly felt sense of emotion?
Conciliatory
What is the intention to placate or pacify?
Tending or aiming to exhort
What is Hortatory?
Amount of multiple choice questions
What is 45?
Dull and uninspired
What is Stodgy?
Anadiplosis
What is repitition of a prominent and usually last word in one phrase or clause at the beginning of the next?
Anachronism
What is something belonging to a period other than that in which it exists or is portrayed?
Avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility)
What is Shirk?
Types of essays on the test
What is synthesis, Rhetorical analysis, and argument?
Ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary
What is Litotes?
Cognizant
What is having knowledge or being aware of?
Elegiac
What is relating to or characteristic of an elegy?
A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses or to two others of which it semantically suits only one
What is Zeugma?
Date of exam
What is May 13th?
A newly coined word or expression
What is Neologism?
Cavort
What is to jump or dance around excitedly?
Equivocation
What is the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth?
A word or phrase That is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation
What is Colloquialism?
What you’re going to get on the exam
What is a 5?
Impossible to stop or prevent
What is Inexorable?
Circumlocution
What is the use of many words where fewer words would do?