AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Blank Verse

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

a five line stanza

Diction

Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

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

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

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

Pedantry

Octave

Syncope

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

A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.

Quatrain A four line stanza

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

Shakespeare Sonnet

Homophones

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

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

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

Internal Rhyme

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Anaphora

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

Scansion

a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events

Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

cutting short of words through omission of a letter or syllable. Ev'ry for every.

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

Syntax

Free Verse Poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme

a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Pun A play on words

Damning with faint praise

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Homophones These are words that are pronounced the same, but have different meanings.

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

Repetition of consonant sounds

Spenserian A sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a couplet in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee.

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

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

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

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

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.

Exact Rhyme

Octave

Quintet

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