AP English Language

Quarter 1 Vocabulary

Lesson 4
31. inversion
Lesson 1 32. rhetorical question
1. rhetoric 33. synthesize
2. context 34. dismal
3. ethos 35. sentient
4. pathos 36. longevity
5. logos 37. plausible
6. assumption 38. vestigial
7. concede 39. indelible
8. refute 40. affinity
9. propagandistic
10. polemical Lesson 5 (from “I Know Why the Caged Bird
Cannot Read” by Francine Prose
Lesson 2
11. satiric 41. idiosyncratic
12. sycophantic 42. supple
13. extricate 43. decried
14. indignation 44. moribund
15. colloquialism 45. lucid
16. hyperbole 46. dogged
17. parallelism 47. sententious
18. juxtaposition 48. rumination
19. antithesis 49. piety
20. periodic sentence 50. opaque

Lesson 3 Lesson 6
21. cumulative sentence 51. turgid
22. oxymoron 52. convoluted
23. zeugma 53. paradigm
24. archaic 54. parse
25. hortative 55. obscure
26. antimetabole 56. felicitous
27. allusion 57. affable
28. anaphora 58. benevolent
29. asyndeton 59. dubious
30. polysyndeton 60. soporific