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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.