AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Shakespeare Sonnet

Homophones

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

a five line stanza

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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

Atmosphere

Extended Metaphor

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

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

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Tercet

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

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

Motif

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

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

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

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

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

Digression

Pun A play on words

Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Denotation

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

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

Assonance

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Internal Rhyme

Dramatic Irony

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

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

Quintet a five line stanza

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

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

Spenserian

Pun

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Quatrain

Pedantry

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

Repetition of vowel sounds

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

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

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

Apostrophe

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Ellipsis

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

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

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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