AP Lit Vocab-Week 9 (Pre 12 Week IA)

Naivete

• the quality of being innocent or unsophisticated; lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
• a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another.
• the state of being successful in material terms; flourishing financially.
• evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Foil

• a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another.
• a very typical example of a certain person or thing; a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
• the quality of being innocent or unsophisticated; lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
• disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.

Poignant

• evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
• agriculture or medicine: one object inserted into another living object so the two things can grow togetehr
• the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant
• a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Belittlement

• the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant
• disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.
• in a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.
• a very typical example of a certain person or thing; a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Disillusioned

• disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.
• evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
• fasten (something) securely with a cord or rope.
• agriculture or medicine: one object inserted into another living object so the two things can grow togetehr

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Prosperity

• the state of being successful in material terms; flourishing financially.
• fasten (something) securely with a cord or rope.
• evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret.
• the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Archetype

• a very typical example of a certain person or thing; a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
• in a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.
• disappointed in someone or something that one discovers to be less good than one had believed.
• the quality of being innocent or unsophisticated; lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Graft

• agriculture or medicine: one object inserted into another living object so the two things can grow togetehr
• the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant
• a very typical example of a certain person or thing; a recurrent symbol or motif in literature, art, or mythology.
• the state of being successful in material terms; flourishing financially.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Lash

• fasten (something) securely with a cord or rope.
• the quality of being innocent or unsophisticated; lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
• agriculture or medicine: one object inserted into another living object so the two things can grow togetehr
• in a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Irrevocably

• in a way that cannot be changed, reversed, or recovered.
• the state of being successful in material terms; flourishing financially.
• a person or thing that contrasts with and so emphasizes and enhances the qualities of another.
• fasten (something) securely with a cord or rope.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4