Vocab Words for AP English
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- Sardonic
- Sarcastic
- Pedantic
- Scholastic, sticking to the books
- Maudlin
- Sentimental
- Lugubrious
- Overly gloomy
- Vituperative
- Scathing
- Jingoistic
- Overly nationalistic/patriotic
- iamb
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da DA, da DA
(toDAY, beCAUSE) - trochee
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DA da, DA da
(HAPpy, LIGHTly) - anapest
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da da DA, da da DA
(twas the NIGHT before CHRISTmas and ALL through the HOUSE) - dactyl
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DA da da, DA da da
(MASculine, CHALlenges, INterstate, MICrophone) - spondee
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DA DA, DA DA
(downtown, slipshod) - anaphora
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repitition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases/clauses/sentences.
To think on death is misery,/ To think on life it is a vanity,/ To think on the world verily it is,/ To think that here man hath no perfect bliss.