AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Metonymy

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

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

Synecdoche

Tercet three line stanza

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Repetition of vowel sounds

Octave 8 line stanza

Quatrain A four line stanza

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

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

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

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

Sestet six 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.

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

Extended Metaphor

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

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

Tone Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character

Quintet a five line stanza

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

Couplet

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

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

Pedantry

Euphemism

Synaesthesia the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

Parallel Structure

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

End Rhyme

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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

Blank Verse

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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.

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

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

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

Atmosphere

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

A play on words

Tercet three line stanza

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

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

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

Omitting conjunctions

Syncope

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

Scansion

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

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