AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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.

Sestet

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

Consonance

Repetition of vowel sounds

Exact Rhyme

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

Quintet

Euphemism

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

Metonymy A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it

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

Quatrain A four line stanza

Extended Metaphor

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

A play on words

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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

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

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

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

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

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

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

Syncope

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

Syntax

Tone

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

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

Mood

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

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

Damning with faint praise

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

Spenserian

Apostrophe

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

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

Tercet

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

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

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Balanced Sentences

Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Repetition of vowel sounds

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

Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

Repetition of consonant sounds

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