AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Epistrophe

Pun A play on words

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

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Anaphora

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Denotation

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

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

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

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

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

Octave 8 line stanza

Paradox

Colloquial

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

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

Oxymoron

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

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

Personification

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

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

Uses words with identical end sound

Spenserian

Motif

Pun A play on words

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

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

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

a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events

a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing

8 line stanza

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

Uses words with identical end sound

six line stanza

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.

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

Dramatic Irony

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

a five line stanza

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Quatrain

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

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

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

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

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

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

Synaesthesia

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Couplet

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