AP English Lit Unit 11 Vocabulary

One who forsakes his or her religion, party, or cause

• raconteur

• apostate

• impasse

• quagmire

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

A display of false or assumed courage

• quagmire

• vendetta

• bravado

• mystique

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

A collective or general agreement of opinion, feeling, or thinking

• consensus

• impasse

• non sequitur

• concord

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

To make smaller or narrower, draw together, squeeze; to stop or cause to falter

• mystique

• constrict

• astringent

• apostate

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

A division into two contradictory or mutually exclusive parts; a branching or forking in an ancestral line

• duplicity

• quiddity

• consensus

• dichotomy

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Highly demonstrative; unrestrained

• gothic

• euphoria

• mystique

• effusive

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

A feeling of great happiness or well-being, often with no objective basis

• mystique

• metamorphosis

• euphoria

• euthanasia

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

Characterized by or emphasizing a gloomy setting and grotesque or violent events; such a literary or artistic style; a type or medieval architecture

• gothic

• metamorphosis

• effusive

• dichotomy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A dead end; a position from which there is no escape; a problem to which there is no solution

• impasse

• raconteur

• constrict

• consensus

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

Sad, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree

• nefarious

• lugubrious

• epiphany

• dichotomy

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E