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English Exam
final exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Drama | 1. Aristotle said, "Drama is an imitation of life." 2. it is a written story that is performed on a stage 3. it is a script with a dialogue 4. it has stage instructions 5. it has plots & scenery 6. it is divided into Acts & Scenes |
| Stage Direction | An instruction in the text of a play. |
| protagonist | The leading character or a major character in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text. |
| antagonist | A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary. |
| exposition | The part of a movement, esp. in sonata form, in which the principal themes are first presented. |
| setting | The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place |
| character | The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual. |
| rising action | The events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax. |
| conflict | A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. |
| climax | The most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex. |
| internal conflict | A psychological conflict within the central character. |
| external conflict | a struggle occurring outside the mind of a character. |
| denouement | The final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are resolved. |
| foreshadowing | Be a warning or indication of (a future event). |
| theme | The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic |
| tragedy | An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. |
| tragic flaw | the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall. |
| blank verse | Verse without rhyme, esp. that which uses iambic pentameter. |
| allusion | a reference to something in another work of literature, mythology, or history |
| couplet | Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, forming a unit. |
| dramatic foil | contrasts with another character and helps to highlight this character's traits. |
| dramatic irony | a device whereby a character's words or actions have one meaning for the character and a quite different meaning for the audience or reader. |
| free verse | Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter. |
| sonnet | A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. |
| dialogue | Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. |
| meter | The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line. |
| pentameter | A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable. |
| iambic | a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
| monologue | A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. |
| aside | A remark by a character in a play intended to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters. |
| soliloquy | An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, esp. by a character in a play. |
| rhyme scheme | The ordered pattern of rhymes. |
| simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind |
| personification | a figure of speech in which a quality, idea, or any nonhuman being is represented as having human traits |
| metaphor | A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. |
| figurative language | language that uses figures of speech |
| symbol | A thing that represents or stands for something else, esp. a material object representing something abstract. |
| imagery | Visually descriptive or figurative language, esp. in a literary work |
| tone | refers to the feelings and emotions the accompany the words in a monologue |
| tragic hero/heroine | a great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat |
| oxymoron | A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction |
| historical inference | the technique of arriving at conclusions about a person or time in history based on limited evidence |
| Elizabethan Period | a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity |
| round characters | a character in fiction whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author. |
| flat characters | an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author. |
| rhythm | A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound. |
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