AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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

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

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

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

Pun A play on words

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

Verbal irony

a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

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

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Parallel Structure

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

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

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

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

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

Polysyndeton

Spenserian

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

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

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

a five line stanza

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

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

Shakespeare Sonnet

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

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

Octave 8 line stanza

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

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

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

Colloquial

Syllogism

Denouement

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

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

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

Scansion

Epiphany

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

Anticlimax

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

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

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

a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

Quatrain

Connotation

Parallel Structure

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

Sestet

Oxymoron

Mood

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

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

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

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

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

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