AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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

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

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

Using the same conjunction lots of times

Denotation

Uses words with identical end sound

Quintet a five line stanza

Syntax

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

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

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

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

Couplet

Caesurae

three line stanza

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

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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

Anaphora

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

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.

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

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

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

Atmosphere

a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

Colloquial

Blank Verse

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

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

Situational Irony An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected

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

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

Homophones

Tercet

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Juxtaposition

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

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

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

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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

Quatrain

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

The dictionary definition of a word

Litotes

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

Damning with faint praise

Octave 8 line stanza

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

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

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

Parallel Structure

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

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Pedantry

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