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AP Tone And Style Vocab
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Preoccupied with lewd and lustful thoughts
Metaphorical
Prurient
Objective
Effeminate
2. Displaying one's importance in an exaggerated way; sometimes this quality is found in some comic characters
Pompous
Romantic
Baroque
Ambiguous
3. Characterized by personal admissions of faults
Confessional
Evocative
Baroque
Crepuscular
4. Assuming a false manner or attitude to impress others
Stark
Affected
Mundane
Cynical
5. Ordinary of common - as in everyday matters ('His mind was filled with mundane matters')
Mundane
Journalistic
Realistic
Epistolary
6. Uninfluenced by personal feelings; seeing things from the outside - not subjectively
Convoluted
Objective
Irreverent
Analytical
7. Involving formal praise in speech or writing - usually in honor of someone dead
Earthy
Emotional
Contemptuous
Eulogistic
8. Feeling or expressing grief (certain literary forms are devoted to the expression of grief - such as elegies)
Analytical
Terse
Concise
Mournful
9. Tending to present things in art and literature as they appear in nature or actuality
Victorian
Confessional
Psychological
Naturalistic
10. Characterized by certain patters - beats - or accents (as in dancing - music - poetry)
Rhythmic
Facetious
Fatalistic
Concise
11. In the style of an earlier period
Fluid
Archaic
Urbane
Subjective
12. Very complicated or involved (as in the case of sentences with many qualifiers - phrases - and clauses)
Ambiguous
Ironic
Prurient
Convoluted
13. Using sarcasm and irony - often humorously to expose human folly
Eulogistic
Satirical
Convincing
Sensuous
14. Pointless and uninteresting
Ironic
Depressing
Banal
Farcical
15. Having the characteristics of melodrama in which emotions and plot are exaggerated and characterization is shallow
Affected
Absurd
Metaphorical
Confessional
16. Characterized by an unexpected turn of events - often the opposite of what was intended
Depressing
Anecdotal
Comic
Ironic
17. Characteristic or ordinary and informal conversation
Epistolary
Colloquial
Victorian
Cinematic
18. Using very few words to express a great deal
Earthy
Naturalistic
Concise
Baroque
19. Prudish - stuffy - and puritanical (qualities associated with Queen Victoria's reign)
Expressionistic
Primitive
Victorian
Austere
20. Using more words than necessary to say What you have to say
Impressionistic
Wordy
Epistolary
Sardonic
21. Plain - harsh - completely (as in 'stark raving mad'); simple or bare - when applied to style - sometimes even bleak or grim
Wordy
Dreamlike
Stark
Anecdotal
22. Intense - spontaneous - musical
Dreamlike
Convincing
Lyrical
Realistic
23. Simple and crude (Primitivism in the arts tries to make use of a sophisticated way of what seems simple and crude.)
Primitive
Objective
Fluid
Subjective
24. Realistic - rustic - coarse - unrefined - instinctive - animalize
Comic
Farcical
Earthy
Fatalistic
25. Able to get a person to do something or agree with one by an appeal to reason or other convincing devices
Persuasive
Discursive
Fluid
Sensuous
26. Relying on one's own inner impressions - as opposed to being objective
Farcical
Absurd
Subjective
Primitive
27. Inclined to long for or dwell on things of the past; sentimental
Subjective
Nostalgic
Cinematic
Decadent
28. Inclined to use subjective impressions rather than objective reality
Classical
Earthy
Impressionistic
Mournful
29. Having the characteristics of a dream
Naturalistic
Rhythmic
Stark
Dreamlike
30. Stern - strict - frugal - unadorned
Prurient
Affected
Expressionistic
Austere
31. Flowing smoothly
Flamboyant
Dreamlike
Lyrical
Fluid
32. Soft - delicate - unmanly
Sardonic
Urbane
Effeminate
Earthy
33. Having to do with the human mind and human behavior
Puritanical
Contemptuous
Stark
Psychological
34. Having two or more possible meanings
Prurient
Ambiguous
Dreamlike
Angry
35. Believing that everything that happens is destined and - therefore - out of the hands of the individual
Comic
Baroque
Eulogistic
Fatalistic
36. Having or displaying a reverence for God and religion; sometimes used pejoratively - when the display is excessive and overly righteous
Pious
Eulogistic
Primitive
Philosophical
37. Inclined to attack cherished beliefs and traditions
Archaic
Bland
Iconoclastic
Cinematic
38. Immature (when applied to adults or to writing)
Childish
Victorian
Convincing
Primitive
39. A tendency to believe that all human behavior is selfish and opportunistic
Sardonic
Fluid
Mournful
Cynical
40. Amusing - but light - unserious - frivolous
Confessional
Prurient
Facetious
Journalistic
41. Disinterested - unbiased - emotionally disconnected
Detached
Urbane
Wordy
Angry
42. Much given to strong feelings
Emotional
Urbane
Evocative
Epistolary
43. Undisturbing - unemotional - and uninteresting
Bland
Childish
Naturalistic
Cynical
44. Having to do with twilight or shadowy areas (as in the darker and more hidden parts of human experience)
Crepuscular
Epistolary
Nostalgic
Wordy
45. Mocking - taunting - bitter - scornful - sarcastic
Austere
Sensuous
Baroque
Sardonic
46. Stale - worn out - as in trite expressions
Subjective
Trite
Earthy
Sensuous
47. Unusually strange or odd
Fluid
Archaic
Bizarre
Irreverent
48. 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
Psychological
Earthy
Puritanical
Romantic
49. Inclined to examine things by studying their contents or parts
Analytical
Fluid
Subjective
Realistic
50. Indicating or threatening evil or danger as dark clouds indicate that a storm is coming
Wordy
Archaic
Sardonic
Ominous