AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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.

Polysyndeton

Verbal irony

Syllepsis

Assonance

Spenserian

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

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

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

Exact Rhyme

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

Omitting conjunctions

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

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

Chaismus

Motif

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

Apostrophe

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

Synecdoche

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

A four line stanza

End Rhyme

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

The dictionary definition of a word

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

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

Pedantry

Repetition of consonant sounds

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

Homophones

Syllepsis

a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

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

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

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

Quatrain A four line stanza

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

Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

Damning with faint praise

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Denouement 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.

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

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

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

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

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

Sestet

Colloquial

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

Uses words with identical end sound

Polysyndeton

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

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