AP Lit 2012-2013

peccadillo
aberration
onus
adulation
chagrin
insidious
impetuous
besmirch
ubiquitous
bereft
acquiesce
enamored
cavalier
negate
quibble
chasten
allege
detrimental
hiatus
anachronistic
hackneyed
replicate
tumultuously
salient
visceral
hurly burly
irony
soli

His rudeness was such an aberration from his normal kindness that she knew he was stressed and forgave him quickly.

The onus of learning these words falls on your shoulders: No one can do it for you.

Heap adulation upon those you love this week: Giving thanks improves your mental health.

“Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment” (Henry David Thoreau).

peccadillo
aberration
onus
adulation
chagrin
insidious
impetuous
besmirch
ubiquitous
bereft
acquiesce
enamored
cavalier
negate
quibble
chasten
allege
detrimental
hiatus
anachronistic
hackneyed
replicate
tumultuously
salient
visceral
hurly burly
irony
soli

"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought" (Thucydides).

"For them to go after the U.N. Ambassador, who had nothing to do with Benghazi and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation is outrageous" (Obama).

"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence" (Godfrey Reggio).

"He's a stiff, bereft of life, he rests in peace. If you hadn't had nailed him to the perch he'd be pushing up the daisies. He's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!” (Monty Python).

"I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means no" (Pirates of the Caribbean).

"Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number"(Anna Quindlen.)

“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason” (Jack Handy).

“Once you label me, you negate me” (Soren Kierkegaard).

"Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country. Black women don't quibble about things that are not important” (Wilma Rudolph).

“If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you to bind up" (Brigham Young).

"Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude" (William Blake).

"I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental" (Seann William Scott).

Our recent hiatus from school was refreshing: Now we need to focus on finishing well.

A clock chiming in a play set in ancient Rome is anachronistic.

“The cliché is a hackneyed idiom that hopes that it can still palm itself off as a fresh response" (John Gross).

"The other salient characteristic of the Declaration is its universality: it applies to all human beings without any discrimination whatever" (Rene' Cassin).

"Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously" (Chopin par. 7).

We are studying AP writing responses in the hope that you can replicate the successes of the best ones.

She has a visceral response to lima beans: she gags every time she sees them on her plate.

Dramatic irony happens when the audience knows something the characters on stage don't know.

In a famous soliloquy, Lady Macbeth sleepwalks and tries to wash her hands to clean them of blood.

"I see thee yet, in form as palpable
As this which now I draw" (II.2.39-40).

"Then 'tis most like
The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth" (II.4. 29b-30).

"Yet it was said / It should not stand in thy posterity" (III.i.3b-4).

"Did he not straight
In pious rage the two delinquents tear
That were the slaves of drink and thralls of sleep?"
(III.6.11b-13).

"Let this pernicious hour
Stand aye accursed in the calendar" (IV.1.134b-135).

"Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him" (IV.1.92-94b).

"A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching" (V.1.7-8a).

"[N]o sooner had his prowess confirmed
In the unshrinking station where he fought" (V.8.41-42).

The preternatural presence of the witches brought an eerie tone to Macbeth.

“Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies" (Napoleon Bonaparte).

Are you cognizant of the fact that you have a Word of the Day test today?

"The success of the Rat Pack was due to the camaraderie, the three guys who work together and kid each other and love each other" (Sammy Davis, Jr.)

"My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows" (Kid Rock).

The principal countermanded the teacher's rule against cellphones, and the students are allowed to use phones in the school.