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.

Epiphany

Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

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

Epistrophe

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

Dramatic Irony

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

Situational Irony

Metonymy

Parallel Structure

Spenserian

Octave 8 line stanza

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

Blank Verse

Personification

Paradox

Euphemism

Digression a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

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

Syllepsis

Quatrain

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

Damning with faint praise

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

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

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

Consonance

Syncope

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

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

Antithesis

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

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

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

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

Tercet three line stanza

Free Verse

Consonance

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

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

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

Motif

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Personification

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Syntax

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

Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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.

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

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

Sestet six line stanza

Quintet a five line stanza

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

Euphemism

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

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