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.

Quintet a five line stanza

Asyndeton

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

Polysyndeton

8 line stanza

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

Repetition of vowel sounds

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

Denotation The dictionary definition of a word

Balanced Sentences

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

Metonymy

Extended Metaphor

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

Anticlimax

six line stanza

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

Scansion

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

Digression

Oxymoron

Mood Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the readers

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

the direct opposite, a sharp contrast

Synaesthesia

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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

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

Exact Rhyme Uses words with identical end sound

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

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

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

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

a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events

Sestet six line stanza

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

Atmosphere

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

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

Parallelism

Parallel Structure Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

a five line stanza

Pun A play on words

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

Scansion

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

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

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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

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

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

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

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

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

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

Digression

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

Ellipsis

End this game?