AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

Mood

Uses words with identical end sound

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.

three line stanza

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

Syncope

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

Dramatic Irony

Juxtaposition

Polysyndeton

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

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

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

Spenserian

Parallelism similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses

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

Motif

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Omitting conjunctions

Repetition of vowel sounds

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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

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

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

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

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

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Octave 8 line stanza

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

Synecdoche

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

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

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

Couplet

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

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

Polysyndeton

Quatrain

Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

Scansion

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

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

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

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

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

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

Motif

Diction

Extended Metaphor

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

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

Parallelism

Verbal irony

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

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