AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Couplet

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

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

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Quintet

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

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

Tercet three line stanza

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

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.

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

Diction

Paradox

Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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

8 line stanza

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details

Apostrophe

Verbal irony A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant

Euphemism An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant

Pun A play on words

A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed

a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events

Motif (n.) a principal idea, feature, theme, or element; a repeated or dominant figure in a design

Juxtaposition Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

Parallel Structure

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

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

Pedantry (n.) a pretentious display of knowledge; overly rigid attention to rules and details

Synaesthesia

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Personification A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

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

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Synecdoche a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

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

Pun A play on words

Denotation

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

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

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

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

Damning with faint praise (fallacy) attacking a person by formally praising him/her, but for an achievement that should not be praised

Colloquial 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

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

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

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

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

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

End this game?