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AP Tone And Style Vocab
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1. Using very few words to express a great deal
Concise
Subjective
Colloquial
Journalistic
2. Strict or severe in matters or morality
Puritanical
Stark
Analytical
Irreverent
3. Elaborate - grotesque - and ornamental
Convoluted
Earthy
Baroque
Flamboyant
4. Having the characteristics of melodrama in which emotions and plot are exaggerated and characterization is shallow
Contemptuous
Metaphorical
Bland
Iconoclastic
5. Characterized by certain patters - beats - or accents (as in dancing - music - poetry)
Bizarre
Victorian
Rhythmic
Bombastic
6. Having the ability to call forth memories or other responses
Evocative
Prurient
Cynical
Stark
7. Assuming a false manner or attitude to impress others
Prurient
Affected
Fluid
Romantic
8. Theoretical - without reference to specifics
Abstract
Irreverent
Journalistic
Bizarre
9. Disinterested - unbiased - emotionally disconnected
Detached
Terse
Comic
Pompous
10. Conspicuously bold or colorful
Archaic
Dreamlike
Flamboyant
Irreverent
11. Taking pleasure in things that appeal to the senses; sensual suggests a strong preoccupation with such things - especially sexual pleasures
Sensuous
Angry
Earthy
Flamboyant
12. Inclined to be playful - humorous - or fanciful
Depressing
Evocative
Whimsical
Philosophical
13. Soft - delicate - unmanly
Colloquial
Effeminate
Austere
Ambiguous
14. Sad - gloomy (without any redeeming qualities of true tragedy)
Depressing
Epistolary
Baroque
Childish
15. Moving pointlessly from one subject to another; rambling
Subjective
Psychological
Impressionistic
Discursive
16. Learned - scholarly
Puritanical
Decadent
Crepuscular
Erudite
17. Involving letters
Surrealistic
Emotional
Urbane
Epistolary
18. Ordinary of common - as in everyday matters ('His mind was filled with mundane matters')
Impressionistic
Mundane
Cynical
Pious
19. Stale - worn out - as in trite expressions
Romantic
Psychological
Trite
Ambiguous
20. Marked by a decay in morals - values - and artistic standards
Decadent
Wordy
Fatalistic
Ominous
21. Undisturbing - unemotional - and uninteresting
Bland
Objective
Urbane
Bizarre
22. Uninfluenced by personal feelings; seeing things from the outside - not subjectively
Objective
Realistic
Irreverent
Ominous
23. Pretentious and pompous
Facetious
Affected
Bombastic
Contemptuous
24. Very complicated or involved (as in the case of sentences with many qualifiers - phrases - and clauses)
Anecdotal
Dreamlike
Rhythmic
Convoluted
25. Much given to strong feelings
Sensuous
Emotional
Romantic
Nostalgic
26. Expressing contempt or disdain
Epistolary
Wordy
Contemptuous
Farcical
27. Intense - spontaneous - musical
Lyrical
Effeminate
Decadent
Pious
28. Unusually strange or odd
Iconoclastic
Bizarre
Persuasive
Convincing
29. A tendency to believe that all human behavior is selfish and opportunistic
Emotional
Cynical
Objective
Whimsical
30. Indicating or threatening evil or danger as dark clouds indicate that a storm is coming
Urbane
Ominous
Facetious
Impressionistic
31. Having two or more possible meanings
Pious
Bombastic
Convoluted
Ambiguous
32. Inclined to attack cherished beliefs and traditions
Earthy
Iconoclastic
Metaphorical
Urbane
33. Involving formal praise in speech or writing - usually in honor of someone dead
Detached
Pious
Journalistic
Eulogistic
34. Effectively concise - brief
Terse
Cynical
Farcical
Abstract
35. Stressing the subjective and symbolic in art and literature
Persuasive
Ambiguous
Urbane
Expressionistic
36. Expressing sorrow of lamentation (elegy is a mournful poem)
Poetical
Terse
Elegiac
Lyrical
37. Inclined to examine things by studying their contents or parts
Analytical
Subjective
Terse
Dreamlike
38. Having the qualities of a motion picture
Primitive
Cinematic
Angry
Classical
39. Relying on one's own inner impressions - as opposed to being objective
Breezy
Angry
Subjective
Affected
40. Using more words than necessary to say What you have to say
Wordy
Expressionistic
Earthy
Ambiguous
41. In the style of an earlier period
Terse
Decadent
Archaic
Flamboyant
42. Having the characteristics of a dream
Objective
Dreamlike
Convincing
Lyrical
43. Having to do with twilight or shadowy areas (as in the darker and more hidden parts of human experience)
Erudite
Puritanical
Breezy
Crepuscular
44. Simple and crude (Primitivism in the arts tries to make use of a sophisticated way of what seems simple and crude.)
Concise
Realistic
Primitive
Victorian
45. Displaying one's importance in an exaggerated way; sometimes this quality is found in some comic characters
Mundane
Effeminate
Pompous
Prurient
46. Humorous in a light way - comedy with high exaggeration
Farcical
Naturalistic
Baroque
Victorian
47. Prudish - stuffy - and puritanical (qualities associated with Queen Victoria's reign)
Victorian
Depressing
Pious
Persuasive
48. Inclined to represent things as they really are
Anecdotal
Realistic
Classical
Depressing
49. Realistic - rustic - coarse - unrefined - instinctive - animalize
Detached
Sardonic
Earthy
Childish
50. Feeling or expressing grief (certain literary forms are devoted to the expression of grief - such as elegies)
Eulogistic
Cynical
Mournful
Earthy
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