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AP English 12 : Vocabulary: 30-60 Terms
AP English: Vocabulary: 30-60 Terms
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12th Grade
01/18/2015
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What is Assonance?
 Definition
The Repetition of Vowel Sounds
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What is Asyndeton?
 Definition
Series Without Conjunctions
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What is Atmosphere?
 Definition
Mood
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What is Attitude?
 Definition
Author's Feelings
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What is a Ballad?
 Definition
Song-like poem
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What is a Ballad Meter?
 Definition
Four Line Stanza With An ABCD Rhyme Scheme
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What is A Balanced Sentence?
 Definition
A Sentence That Shows parallel structure in Multiple Parts
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What is Bathos?
 Definition
Overly Sentimental
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What is Begging The Question?
 Definition
Restatement of Question Instead of Answer
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What is Blank Verse?
 Definition
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
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What is Cacophony?
 Definition
Harshness
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What is Ceasura?
 Definition
Gramatical pause based on Natural Speech
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What is Chiasmus?
 Definition
Parallel Parts Where Part Two is Reversed
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What is Cinquain?
 Definition
A Group of Five
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What is Circumlocution?
 Definition
Indirect Idea Expression
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What is A Claim?
 Definition
Assertion of something as fact
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What is Classicism?
 Definition
Emphasis on Tradition
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What is Classification?
 Definition
Systematic Arrangement
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What is A Clause?
 Definition
Subject and Verb In Incomplete Sentence
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What is Close Reading?
 Definition
Careful Reading
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What is Colloquialism?
 Definition
Informal Writing
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What is Commentary?
 Definition
A Series of Interpretations
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