AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

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

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

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

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

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

Free Verse

Repetition of vowel sounds

Syncope

Parallelism

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

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.

Syntax

Quintet a five line stanza

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

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

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

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

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

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

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Pun A play on words

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

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Omitting conjunctions

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

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

Using the same conjunction lots of times

Pedantry

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

Exact Rhyme

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

Homophones

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

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

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

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

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

Assonance

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

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.

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

Metonymy

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

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

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

Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Syllogism

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

Apostrophe

Juxtaposition

Anticlimax

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

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