AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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

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

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

Tercet

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

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

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

Quatrain A four line stanza

Pun

Chaismus

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Sestet six line stanza

Pedantry

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

Spenserian

Synecdoche

Antithesis the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

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

Motif

Syllepsis

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

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

Asyndeton

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

Octave 8 line stanza

Homophones

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

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

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

the use of one kind of sensory experience to describe another

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

Polysyndeton

Tercet

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

8 line stanza

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

Blank Verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Damning with faint praise

Asyndeton Omitting conjunctions

Chaismus

Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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.

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

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

Atmosphere Feeling or atmosphere that writer creates for the characters

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

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

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

End Rhyme

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

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

Quintet a five line stanza

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

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