AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Octave 8 line stanza

Chaismus

Litotes A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite; antenantiosis or moderatour

Caesurae Caesuras (or caesurae) are those slight pauses one makes as one reads verse.

A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Personification

Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

a sentence in which words, phrases, or clauses are set off against each other to emphasize a contrast

Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events

Shakespeare Sonnet The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg

Euphemism

Ellipsis three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation

when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't

Denouement the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

Scansion The process of marking lines of poetry to show the type of feet and the number of feet they contain

Connotation an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words

A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it

Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

three line stanza

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Synaesthesia

Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Assonance

Epistrophe

Inexact/Slant Rhyme It is defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of the ending consonants match, but the vowels do not.

three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

The dictionary definition of a word

Quintet a five line stanza

Using the same conjunction lots of times

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

Extended Metaphor A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.

A play on words

Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Epistrophe

Dramatic Irony

Apostrophe A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected

Paradox A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Personification

Anaphora

8 line stanza

Sestet six line stanza

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Quatrain A four line stanza

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Repetition of consonant sounds

Juxtaposition

End Rhyme A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line

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