AP Lang and 8th grade English duel

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

Octave

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

Personification

Oxymoron

Pun A play on words

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

Dramatic Irony

Uses words with identical end sound

Situational Irony

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds

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

Couplet Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Anaphora Repeating word patterns in front, across sentences.

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

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

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

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

Denouement

Sestet six line stanza

Epiphany A moment of sudden revelation or insight

Having the same word patterns pop up in one sentence

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

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

Denotation

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

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

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

Epistrophe

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

Octave

Assonance Repetition of vowel sounds

Tercet three line stanza

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quatrain

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

Parallel Structure

Consonance

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

Chaismus

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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

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

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

Sonnet

Colloquial Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing

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

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

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

Epistrophe Repeating word patterns in the back, across sentences.

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

Sestet six line stanza

Metonymy

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

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