AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Antithesis

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

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

Synaesthesia

Anaphora

Metonymy

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

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

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

Paradox

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

Extended Metaphor

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

Digression

Ellipsis

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.

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

Quatrain A four line stanza

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

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Shakespeare Sonnet

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

Pun

The dictionary definition of a word

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

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Sestet six line stanza

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

six line stanza

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

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

End Rhyme

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

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

The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg

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

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

Anaphora

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

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

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

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

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

Denouement

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

Syntax

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

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

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

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

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

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

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

Quatrain A four line stanza

Quintet a five line stanza

Syllepsis

Connotation

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