AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

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

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

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

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

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

Parallel Structure

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

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

Quatrain A four line stanza

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

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

Quintet

Tercet three line stanza

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

Scansion

Denotation

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

Dramatic Irony

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

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Synaesthesia

Polysyndeton

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Diction

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

Denotation

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Using the same conjunction lots of times

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

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

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

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

Syllepsis

Sonnet

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

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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

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

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Colloquial

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

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Pedantry

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

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

Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

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

Sestet

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

Atmosphere

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

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

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