AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Dramatic Irony

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

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

Connotation

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

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

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

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

Synaesthesia

Oxymoron

Denotation

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Octave 8 line stanza

Tercet three line stanza

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

Uses words with identical end sound

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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.

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Syllepsis

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

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

a five line stanza

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

Litotes

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

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

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

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

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

A play on words

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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

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

Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

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

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

Scansion

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Repetition of vowel sounds

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

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

Pedantry

a five line stanza

Omitting conjunctions

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

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

Damning with faint praise

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

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

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.

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