AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Damning with faint praise

Denotation

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Euphemism

Sestet six line stanza

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

Quintet

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

Quatrain A four line stanza

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

8 line stanza

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

Atmosphere

Digression

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

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

Anaphora

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

Mood

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

Consonance

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events

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

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

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

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

Syntax

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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

Juxtaposition

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

Oxymoron

Paradox

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Quintet a five line stanza

Pun

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

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

Quatrain

Repetition of vowel sounds

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

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

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

Anticlimax a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events

Shakespeare Sonnet The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg

Octave 8 line stanza

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

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

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

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

The dictionary definition of a word

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

End Rhyme

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

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