AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Shakespeare Sonnet

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Syntax

six line stanza

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line

Asyndeton

Tercet

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

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

Epistrophe

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

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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

Couplet

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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

Denouement

Pun

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

Syntax

Digression

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

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

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

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

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

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

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

Litotes

Internal Rhyme

Octave 8 line stanza

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

Asyndeton

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

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

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

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

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

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

three line stanza

Assonance

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.

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

Quintet a five line stanza

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