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AP Tone And Style Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Immature (when applied to adults or to writing)
Childish
Rhythmic
Pompous
Erudite
2. Undisturbing - unemotional - and uninteresting
Stark
Bland
Sardonic
Rhythmic
3. Involving letters
Fluid
Evocative
Epistolary
Depressing
4. Able to get a person to do something or agree with one by an appeal to reason or other convincing devices
Iconoclastic
Classical
Sardonic
Persuasive
5. Using very few words to express a great deal
Concise
Decadent
Elegiac
Nostalgic
6. Learned - scholarly
Erudite
Affected
Objective
Classical
7. Stressing the subjective and symbolic in art and literature
Bombastic
Ambiguous
Sardonic
Expressionistic
8. Having to do with twilight or shadowy areas (as in the darker and more hidden parts of human experience)
Iconoclastic
Crepuscular
Pompous
Anecdotal
9. Inclined to examine things by studying their contents or parts
Effeminate
Analytical
Bizarre
Comic
10. Having the characteristics of melodrama in which emotions and plot are exaggerated and characterization is shallow
Persuasive
Metaphorical
Surrealistic
Convoluted
11. Pretentious and pompous
Classical
Bombastic
Realistic
Eulogistic
12. Strict or severe in matters or morality
Decadent
Childish
Classical
Puritanical
13. Flowing smoothly
Flamboyant
Mundane
Fluid
Puritanical
14. Stale - worn out - as in trite expressions
Ironic
Poetical
Trite
Angry
15. A tendency to believe that all human behavior is selfish and opportunistic
Victorian
Ironic
Sardonic
Cynical
16. Having to do with the human mind and human behavior
Expressionistic
Romantic
Realistic
Psychological
17. Having the ability to call forth memories or other responses
Surrealistic
Bland
Evocative
Ironic
18. Having two or more possible meanings
Erudite
Cinematic
Ambiguous
Fatalistic
19. Inclined to attack cherished beliefs and traditions
Iconoclastic
Baroque
Analytical
Ominous
20. Persuasive - believable - plausible
Classical
Convincing
Decadent
Evocative
21. Conspicuously bold or colorful
Expressionistic
Mundane
Flamboyant
Classical
22. Expressing sorrow of lamentation (elegy is a mournful poem)
Whimsical
Elegiac
Bland
Expressionistic
23. Inclined to represent things as they really are
Archaic
Fatalistic
Expressionistic
Realistic
24. Involving formal praise in speech or writing - usually in honor of someone dead
Eulogistic
Sardonic
Facetious
Mundane
25. Assuming a false manner or attitude to impress others
Childish
Banal
Psychological
Affected
26. Characteristic or ordinary and informal conversation
Colloquial
Victorian
Breezy
Baroque
27. Using more words than necessary to say What you have to say
Pious
Wordy
Absurd
Farcical
28. Disinterested - unbiased - emotionally disconnected
Metaphorical
Analytical
Wordy
Detached
29. Characterized by personal admissions of faults
Confessional
Colloquial
Primitive
Impressionistic
30. Much given to strong feelings
Comic
Wordy
Emotional
Ominous
31. Feeling or expressing grief (certain literary forms are devoted to the expression of grief - such as elegies)
Puritanical
Mournful
Metaphorical
Cinematic
32. Having feelings or thoughts of love - but when associated with nineteenth century literature or any such literature it suggests a style that emphasizes freedom of form - imagination - and emotion
Rhythmic
Romantic
Discursive
Analytical
33. Mocking - taunting - bitter - scornful - sarcastic
Ominous
Expressionistic
Subjective
Sardonic
34. Elaborate - grotesque - and ornamental
Baroque
Colloquial
Puritanical
Archaic
35. Having the characteristics of a dream
Analytical
Flamboyant
Subjective
Dreamlike
36. Ordinary of common - as in everyday matters ('His mind was filled with mundane matters')
Angry
Mundane
Facetious
Crepuscular
37. Effectively concise - brief
Whimsical
Terse
Parody
Poetical
38. Displaying one's importance in an exaggerated way; sometimes this quality is found in some comic characters
Romantic
Irreverent
Decadent
Pompous
39. Expressing contempt or disdain
Contemptuous
Terse
Rhythmic
Victorian
40. In the style of an earlier period
Philosophical
Expressionistic
Ambiguous
Archaic
41. Resentful - enraged
Erudite
Angry
Comic
Romantic
42. Indicating or threatening evil or danger as dark clouds indicate that a storm is coming
Ominous
Breezy
Analytical
Detached
43. Inclined to be playful - humorous - or fanciful
Surrealistic
Whimsical
Cinematic
Impressionistic
44. Inclined to use subjective impressions rather than objective reality
Nostalgic
Impressionistic
Surrealistic
Evocative
45. Inclined to long for or dwell on things of the past; sentimental
Anecdotal
Nostalgic
Parody
Lyrical
46. Simple and crude (Primitivism in the arts tries to make use of a sophisticated way of what seems simple and crude.)
Primitive
Pompous
Convoluted
Bland
47. Preoccupied with lewd and lustful thoughts
Depressing
Confessional
Metaphorical
Prurient
48. Interested in the study of basic truths of existence and reality
Philosophical
Dreamlike
Contemptuous
Trite
49. Stressing imagery and the subconscious and sometimes distorting ordinary ideas in order to arrive at artistic truths
Prurient
Stark
Earthy
Surrealistic
50. Soft - delicate - unmanly
Colloquial
Effeminate
Fatalistic
Sardonic