AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

Paradox

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

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

Uses words with identical end sound

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

Connotation

Internal Rhyme

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

Syntax

Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

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

Balanced Sentences

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

Motif

Tercet

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.

Chaismus

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

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

Spenserian

Parallelism

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

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

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

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

Anaphora

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

Polysyndeton

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

The sonnet form composed of three quatrains and a final couplet written in iambic pentameter with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg

Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

a five line stanza

The dictionary definition of a word

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

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

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

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

Scansion

Pun A play on words

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

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

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

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

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

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

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

End Rhyme

Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Diction A writer's or speaker's choice of words

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Atmosphere

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

Octave 8 line stanza

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

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

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