AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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.

Personification

Octave

Situational Irony

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Quatrain A four line stanza

a five line stanza

three line stanza

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

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

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

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Apostrophe

Epiphany

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

Colloquial

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

six line stanza

Uses words with identical end sound

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

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

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

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

Parallelism

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

Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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

Using the same conjunction lots of times

Diction

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

Epiphany

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Assonance

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

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

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

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

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

Motif

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

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Asyndeton

Inexact/Slant Rhyme

Litotes

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

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

Uses words with identical end sound

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

Dramatic Irony

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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