AP English Lit Unit 11 Vocabulary

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

• raconteur

• apostate

• impasse

• quagmire

A display of false or assumed courage

• quagmire

• vendetta

• bravado

• mystique

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

• consensus

• impasse

• non sequitur

• concord

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

• mystique

• constrict

• astringent

• apostate

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

• duplicity

• quiddity

• consensus

• dichotomy

Highly demonstrative; unrestrained

• gothic

• euphoria

• mystique

• effusive

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

• mystique

• metamorphosis

• euphoria

• euthanasia

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

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

• impasse

• raconteur

• constrict

• consensus

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

• nefarious

• lugubrious

• epiphany

• dichotomy