AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

A four line stanza

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

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

Diction

Polysyndeton Using the same conjunction lots of times

Sestet six line stanza

Atmosphere

Uses words with identical end sound

Syncope

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

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

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

Syntax

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

8 line stanza

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

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

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

A play on words

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

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

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

Synecdoche

Syllogism

Tercet

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

Colloquial

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Blank Verse

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

Anaphora

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

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

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

Pun

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

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

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

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

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

Dramatic Irony

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.

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

Quatrain

Diction

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

three line stanza

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

Shakespeare Sonnet

Using the same conjunction lots of times

Blank Verse

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

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

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

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