AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

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

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

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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

Octave

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

Using the same conjunction lots of times

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

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

Oxymoron

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

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

Free Verse

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

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

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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

Pedantry

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

Pun A play on words

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

Mood

Asyndeton

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

Tercet three line stanza

Synaesthesia

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

Syllepsis

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

Quatrain A four line stanza

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

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

Omitting conjunctions

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

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

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

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

Epistrophe

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

Chaismus

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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

three line stanza

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

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

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

The dictionary definition of a word

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

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

Pun

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

Caesurae

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

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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