Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative.

An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent a common meaning for an audience.

a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words. It is a theatrical convention that the aside is not audible to other characters on stage.

a character speaking aloud to himself, or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage.

Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry. Many modern genres such as short stories, novels, letters, essays, and treatises are typically written in prose.

There are three general meanings for verse (1) a line of metrical writing, (2) a stanza, or (3) any composition written in meter (i.e., poetry generally). Remember that rhyme is not the identifying mark of poetry, but rather meter.

A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress. Compositions written in meter are said to be in verse. There are many possible patterns of verse. Each unit of stress and unstressed syllables is called

Iambic: a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable. We name a metric line according to the number of "feet" in it. If a line has five feet, it is pentameter.

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12th Terminology 2

Seniors' literature terminology 2

Question	Answer
Foreshadowing	Suggesting, hinting, indicating, or showing what will occur later in a narrative.
Archetypes	An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent a common meaning for an audience.
Soliloquy	An original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent a common meaning for an audience.
Aside	a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words. It is a theatrical convention that the aside is not audible to other characters on stage.
Monologue	a character speaking aloud to himself, or narrating an account to an audience with no other character on stage.
Prose	Any material that is not written in a regular meter like poetry. Many modern genres such as short stories, novels, letters, essays, and treatises are typically written in prose.
Verse	There are three general meanings for verse (1) a line of metrical writing, (2) a stanza, or (3) any composition written in meter (i.e., poetry generally). Remember that rhyme is not the identifying mark of poetry, but rather meter.
Meter	A recognizable though varying pattern of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress. Compositions written in meter are said to be in verse. There are many possible patterns of verse. Each unit of stress and unstressed syllables is called
Iambic Pentameter	Iambic: a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable. We name a metric line according to the number of "feet" in it. If a line has five feet, it is pentameter.

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