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AP Tone And Style Vocab
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1. Taking pleasure in things that appeal to the senses; sensual suggests a strong preoccupation with such things - especially sexual pleasures
Puritanical
Sensuous
Confessional
Expressionistic
2. A tendency to believe that all human behavior is selfish and opportunistic
Trite
Whimsical
Cynical
Flamboyant
3. Displaying one's importance in an exaggerated way; sometimes this quality is found in some comic characters
Archaic
Pompous
Prurient
Earthy
4. In the style of an earlier period
Pious
Naturalistic
Archaic
Eulogistic
5. Plain - harsh - completely (as in 'stark raving mad'); simple or bare - when applied to style - sometimes even bleak or grim
Cinematic
Ironic
Journalistic
Stark
6. Involving short narratives of interesting events
Cinematic
Banal
Impressionistic
Anecdotal
7. Preoccupied with lewd and lustful thoughts
Absurd
Prurient
Breezy
Ironic
8. Using more words than necessary to say What you have to say
Archaic
Mundane
Ironic
Wordy
9. Showing disrespect for things that are usually respected or revered
Romantic
Earthy
Irreverent
Surrealistic
10. Persuasive - believable - plausible
Archaic
Whimsical
Impressionistic
Convincing
11. Inclined to be playful - humorous - or fanciful
Whimsical
Wordy
Absurd
Discursive
12. Contrary to logic - but sometimes artistically viable
Expressionistic
Farcical
Flamboyant
Absurd
13. Characterized by personal admissions of faults
Objective
Detached
Victorian
Confessional
14. Having two or more possible meanings
Nostalgic
Erudite
Iconoclastic
Ambiguous
15. Expressing sorrow of lamentation (elegy is a mournful poem)
Elegiac
Comic
Sensuous
Poetical
16. Moving pointlessly from one subject to another; rambling
Absurd
Epistolary
Dreamlike
Discursive
17. Mocking - taunting - bitter - scornful - sarcastic
Affected
Sardonic
Archaic
Realistic
18. Flowing smoothly
Journalistic
Fluid
Ironic
Irreverent
19. Simple and crude (Primitivism in the arts tries to make use of a sophisticated way of what seems simple and crude.)
Primitive
Ambiguous
Comic
Fluid
20. Resentful - enraged
Cynical
Wordy
Childish
Angry
21. Feeling or expressing grief (certain literary forms are devoted to the expression of grief - such as elegies)
Prurient
Iconoclastic
Childish
Mournful
22. Expressing contempt or disdain
Journalistic
Cinematic
Contemptuous
Puritanical
23. Involving letters
Victorian
Convoluted
Detached
Epistolary
24. Using sarcasm and irony - often humorously to expose human folly
Bland
Satirical
Analytical
Naturalistic
25. Relying on one's own inner impressions - as opposed to being objective
Psychological
Epistolary
Effeminate
Subjective
26. Interested in the study of basic truths of existence and reality
Detached
Primitive
Concise
Philosophical
27. Much given to strong feelings
Emotional
Baroque
Angry
Psychological
28. A satirical imitation of something serious - such as a comic takeoff of Romeo and Juliet (the parody must have enough elements of the original for it to be recognized)
Puritanical
Parody
Austere
Romantic
29. Effectively concise - brief
Terse
Surrealistic
Fluid
Childish
30. Intense - spontaneous - musical
Depressing
Irreverent
Surrealistic
Lyrical
31. Inclined to represent things as they really are
Mournful
Subjective
Realistic
Farcical
32. Humorous in a light way - comedy with high exaggeration
Farcical
Bombastic
Iconoclastic
Classical
33. Involving formal praise in speech or writing - usually in honor of someone dead
Abstract
Prurient
Eulogistic
Analytical
34. Stressing imagery and the subconscious and sometimes distorting ordinary ideas in order to arrive at artistic truths
Farcical
Satirical
Concise
Surrealistic
35. Using very few words to express a great deal
Concise
Realistic
Iconoclastic
Baroque
36. Learned - scholarly
Evocative
Stark
Philosophical
Erudite
37. Having the characteristics of melodrama in which emotions and plot are exaggerated and characterization is shallow
Metaphorical
Evocative
Childish
Flamboyant
38. Elaborate - grotesque - and ornamental
Comic
Ominous
Baroque
Contemptuous
39. Strict or severe in matters or morality
Dreamlike
Banal
Epistolary
Puritanical
40. Characterized by the kind of language used in journalism
Baroque
Eulogistic
Journalistic
Rhythmic
41. Soft - delicate - unmanly
Primitive
Ironic
Banal
Effeminate
42. Stern - strict - frugal - unadorned
Nostalgic
Baroque
Sardonic
Austere
43. Characterized by certain patters - beats - or accents (as in dancing - music - poetry)
Ironic
Confessional
Classical
Rhythmic
44. Stale - worn out - as in trite expressions
Surrealistic
Trite
Austere
Stark
45. 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
Irreverent
Urbane
Romantic
Iconoclastic
46. Having or displaying a reverence for God and religion; sometimes used pejoratively - when the display is excessive and overly righteous
Farcical
Abstract
Victorian
Pious
47. Very complicated or involved (as in the case of sentences with many qualifiers - phrases - and clauses)
Childish
Mundane
Convoluted
Confessional
48. Immature (when applied to adults or to writing)
Poetical
Childish
Analytical
Abstract
49. Pointless and uninteresting
Bizarre
Cynical
Classical
Banal
50. Theoretical - without reference to specifics
Breezy
Ominous
Eulogistic
Abstract