AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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

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

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

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

Synaesthesia

Spenserian

Couplet

Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

Epistrophe

Dramatic Irony

Atmosphere

Using the same conjunction lots of times

Quintet

Syllogism

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

Sestet six line stanza

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Syllepsis

Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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

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

Parallelism

Paradox

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

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

Situational Irony

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

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

a construction in which one word is used in two different senses ("After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.")

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

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.

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Diction

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

Extended Metaphor

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

Shakespeare Sonnet

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

Omitting conjunctions

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

Using the same conjunction lots of times

Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

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

Pun A play on words

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

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

Euphemism

Sonnet

Repetition of consonant sounds

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

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

six line stanza

Quatrain A four line stanza

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