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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. Resentful - enraged
Comic
Primitive
Angry
Sardonic
2. Prudish - stuffy - and puritanical (qualities associated with Queen Victoria's reign)
Metaphorical
Parody
Sensuous
Victorian
3. A tendency to believe that all human behavior is selfish and opportunistic
Wordy
Victorian
Cynical
Affected
4. Having or displaying a reverence for God and religion; sometimes used pejoratively - when the display is excessive and overly righteous
Ironic
Pious
Satirical
Erudite
5. Believing that everything that happens is destined and - therefore - out of the hands of the individual
Trite
Fatalistic
Flamboyant
Childish
6. Unusually strange or odd
Baroque
Bland
Pompous
Bizarre
7. Conspicuously bold or colorful
Poetical
Flamboyant
Fatalistic
Austere
8. Having the qualities of a motion picture
Contemptuous
Flamboyant
Ironic
Cinematic
9. 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)
Metaphorical
Lyrical
Breezy
Parody
10. Taking pleasure in things that appeal to the senses; sensual suggests a strong preoccupation with such things - especially sexual pleasures
Baroque
Banal
Anecdotal
Sensuous
11. Flowing smoothly
Prurient
Abstract
Convincing
Fluid
12. Involving formal praise in speech or writing - usually in honor of someone dead
Abstract
Flamboyant
Eulogistic
Journalistic
13. Using more words than necessary to say What you have to say
Wordy
Erudite
Metaphorical
Cinematic
14. Stressing the subjective and symbolic in art and literature
Expressionistic
Fatalistic
Pious
Dreamlike
15. Ordinary of common - as in everyday matters ('His mind was filled with mundane matters')
Mundane
Ironic
Archaic
Absurd
16. Simple and crude (Primitivism in the arts tries to make use of a sophisticated way of what seems simple and crude.)
Psychological
Convoluted
Satirical
Primitive
17. Theoretical - without reference to specifics
Prurient
Lyrical
Archaic
Abstract
18. Preoccupied with lewd and lustful thoughts
Childish
Poetical
Mundane
Prurient
19. Uninfluenced by personal feelings; seeing things from the outside - not subjectively
Objective
Crepuscular
Realistic
Parody
20. Able to get a person to do something or agree with one by an appeal to reason or other convincing devices
Effeminate
Persuasive
Colloquial
Urbane
21. Sad - gloomy (without any redeeming qualities of true tragedy)
Trite
Depressing
Poetical
Concise
22. Characterized by personal admissions of faults
Poetical
Cinematic
Confessional
Satirical
23. Expressing contempt or disdain
Epistolary
Sensuous
Contemptuous
Abstract
24. Intense - spontaneous - musical
Lyrical
Earthy
Colloquial
Stark
25. Feeling or expressing grief (certain literary forms are devoted to the expression of grief - such as elegies)
Cinematic
Objective
Mournful
Depressing
26. Using sarcasm and irony - often humorously to expose human folly
Crepuscular
Satirical
Earthy
Eulogistic
27. 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
Romantic
Stark
Abstract
Terse
28. Pointless and uninteresting
Contemptuous
Banal
Whimsical
Stark
29. Characterized by certain patters - beats - or accents (as in dancing - music - poetry)
Rhythmic
Bombastic
Philosophical
Effeminate
30. In the style of an earlier period
Archaic
Childish
Prurient
Discursive
31. Undisturbing - unemotional - and uninteresting
Bland
Childish
Crepuscular
Impressionistic
32. Inclined to attack cherished beliefs and traditions
Ambiguous
Iconoclastic
Dreamlike
Breezy
33. Humorous in a light way - comedy with high exaggeration
Farcical
Archaic
Flamboyant
Ironic
34. Having two or more possible meanings
Discursive
Objective
Ambiguous
Fatalistic
35. Having the characteristics of melodrama in which emotions and plot are exaggerated and characterization is shallow
Metaphorical
Facetious
Victorian
Stark
36. Much given to strong feelings
Emotional
Romantic
Classical
Farcical
37. Involving letters
Rhythmic
Epistolary
Surrealistic
Urbane
38. Having the characteristics of a dream
Prurient
Wordy
Mundane
Dreamlike
39. Mocking - taunting - bitter - scornful - sarcastic
Pious
Sardonic
Archaic
Mournful
40. Persuasive - believable - plausible
Poetical
Contemptuous
Convincing
Surrealistic
41. Moving pointlessly from one subject to another; rambling
Ominous
Trite
Facetious
Discursive
42. Marked by a decay in morals - values - and artistic standards
Decadent
Impressionistic
Contemptuous
Philosophical
43. Inclined to represent things as they really are
Realistic
Fluid
Effeminate
Dreamlike
44. Characteristic or ordinary and informal conversation
Anecdotal
Colloquial
Facetious
Convoluted
45. Sophisticated - socially polished
Urbane
Satirical
Mundane
Eulogistic
46. Having to do with the human mind and human behavior
Contemptuous
Emotional
Wordy
Psychological
47. Having to do with twilight or shadowy areas (as in the darker and more hidden parts of human experience)
Bombastic
Realistic
Crepuscular
Austere
48. Inclined to use subjective impressions rather than objective reality
Wordy
Earthy
Impressionistic
Comic
49. Involving short narratives of interesting events
Classical
Ironic
Anecdotal
Journalistic
50. Very complicated or involved (as in the case of sentences with many qualifiers - phrases - and clauses)
Persuasive
Earthy
Convoluted
Depressing