AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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

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

Omitting conjunctions

8 line stanza

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

Pun A play on words

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

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

A four line stanza

Oxymoron

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

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

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

Denouement

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

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

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

six line stanza

A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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

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

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

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

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

Anaphora

Tercet three line stanza

End Rhyme

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

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

Consonance

Ellipsis

Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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

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

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

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

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

Parallelism

Syntax

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

Diction

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

Connotation

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

Chaismus

Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

Tercet three line stanza

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

Denotation

A play on words

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

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

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

Octave

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

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

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

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

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

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