AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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

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

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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

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

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

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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

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

Epistrophe

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

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

Shakespeare Sonnet

Parallel Structure

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

Situational Irony

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

8 line stanza

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Digression

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

Euphemism

six line stanza

Using the same conjunction lots of times

Tercet three line stanza

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

End Rhyme

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Ellipsis

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

Syntax

Metonymy

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

Synaesthesia

A play on words

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Digression

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

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

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

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

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

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

Quatrain A four line stanza

Synecdoche

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

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

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

Polysyndeton

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Syncope

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

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

a five line stanza

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