English Terms

List Nouns/Adjectives

100

Conspicuous

Easily noticeable;prominent

200

Consummate

Highly skilled; perfect

300

Rueful

Sorrowful; feeling or showing pity

400

Meritocracy

a system in which people are rewarded based on talent and ability

500

Munificent

Generous

List Adjectives/Nouns

100

Alacrity

A cheerful readiness or willingness, often with a prompt response

200

Gregarious

Outgoing; sociable.

300

Vehement

Intense emotion; zealous; ardent; violent

400

Parsimonious

Extremely frugal or even stingy

500

Triskaidekaphobia

Fear of the number 13

List transitive verbs/ poetry terms

100

Caesura

A pause, usually near the middle of a line verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause.

200

Alliteration

The repition of identical or similar consonant sounds

300

Assonance

The repition of identical or similar vowel sounds

400

Venerate

to predict

500

Prognosticate

to predict

AP Lit Terms

100

Anti-hero

A protagonist who is the antithesis of the hero-graceless, inept, stupid, sometimes dishonest

200

Ad hominem

Latin for "to the man"; attacking the arguer and not the argument; mud-slanging

300

Chiasmus

Repition in successive clauses which are usually parallel in syntax

400

Epithet

Nickname or appelllation, i.e. "Helen of the white arms" in the lliad 

500

Epiphora

The repetition of a word or expression at the end of successive phrases for rhetorical or poetic effect

Poetry Terms

100

Synesthesia

Using sense in a way that doesn't make sense

200

Synechdoche

A form of metaphor which, in mentioning a par,t signifies the whole. ex. "Foot soldiers" for the infantry and "Field hands" for manual laborers who work in agriculture

300

Metonomy

A figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself. The king as the "crown" an object closely associated with kindship

400

Elegy

A sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet's meditations upon death or another solemn theme.

500

Villanelle

A nineteen-line poem divided into five tarcets and a final quatrain.