AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Paradox

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

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

8 line stanza

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

Personification

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

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

Syntax The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Free Verse

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

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

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

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Syllogism

Anaphora

Pun

Mood

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

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

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

Parallel Structure

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

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

Caesurae

Sestet

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.

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

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

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Synecdoche

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

Consonance

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

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

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

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

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

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

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

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

Quintet a five line stanza

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

Omitting conjunctions

Pun A play on words

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

Tercet three line stanza

Octave

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

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