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Fry Finals Terms
Mr. Fry's second semester finals terms: literary and drama
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Allusion | A reference to a well-known work of literature, a famous person, or a historical event with whom the reader is assumed to be familiar with. |
| Aside | A stage whisper to a character to get the audience to hear their thoughts but the rest of the people on stage can't. |
| Blank Verse | Poetry with rythem, but no rhyme. |
| Iambic Petameter | five beats of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables; ten syllables per line. |
| Quatrain | A stanza of four lines |
| Couplet | A stanza of two lines. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words. |
| Metephor | A metaphor compares two unlike things without the word like or as. |
| Exeunt | Used as a stage direction to indicate that two or more performers leave the stage. |
| Dramatic Irony | The reader, or audience, knowing something about what's happening in the plot, and the characters have no knowledge of it. |
| Exposition | The part of the plot that provides background information and introduces the story's setting, its conflict, and often its main character or characters. |
| Turning Point | The peak of intensity in a work of literature. This results in a change of the way the plot is heading. |
| Resolution | The final part of the plot of a story. This often blends with the falling action, and explains how the conflict is resolved and may also answer the reader's remaining questions pertaining to the plot. |
| Foil | a character who personality or actions are in striking contrast to those of another charactor. |
| Foreshadowing | A technique used to hint of an event that will happen later in the story. |
| Soliloquy | A speech when only the person speaking is on stage. |
| Monologue | A speech on stage, others are on stage as well. |
| Pun | A play on words. |
| Tragedy | A drama that starts in calm and ends in violence, often with the death of one or more of the main charaters. |
| Anarchronism | Something in a story that is historically out of place. |
| Characterization | This refers to the techniques a writer uses to create and develop a character. |
| Climax | The turning point in the plot of a literary work. |
| Conflict | The struggle between opposing forces that is the basis of the plot of a story. |
| Falling Action | This occurs after the climax in a work of fiction or drama and shows the effects of the climax. |
| Flashback | An inturruption in the chronological order of events in a story to present a conversation or event that happened before the beginning of the story. |
| Free Verse | Poetry without the regular patterns of rhyme and meter. |
| Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which and exaggeration is made for empahsis or humerous effect. |
| Idiom | A common phrase of expression that has a different meaning from the actual meaning of the individual words. |
| Imagery | Refers to words and phrases that appeal to the readers' senses, such as sight. |
| Irony | The contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens. |
| Meter | The regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. |
| Mood | The feeling that the writer wants the reader to get from a work of literature, such as excitement, anger, saddness, happiness, or pity. |
| Personification | A figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to an object, animal, or idea. |
| Plot | The sequence of actions and events in a literary work. The five stages are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. |
| Point of view | The perspective in which a story is told. This includes First-Person, Second-Person, and Third-person/omnicient. |
| Repetition | The literary technique in which a word or group of words is repeated throughout a selection. |
| Rhyme | The repetition of the vowals and consonant sounds at the ends of two or more verbs. |
| Rhythm | The pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in poetry. |
| Rising Action | This forms the second stage in the development of the plot.This is the part of the plot in which the story becomes obvious. Thisi is where complications begin to arise and suspense begins to build as the main characters struggle to solve their problems. |
| Setting | The time and place in which the action occurs. |
| Simile | A comparison of two things using like or as. |
| Stanza | A gorup of lines that form a unit in poetry. |
| Stereotype | This refers to something or someone that conforms to a fixed or general pattern. |
| Suspense | The growing feeling of anxiety and excitment that makes a reader curious about the outcome of a story. |
| Symbol | A person, place, or thing that stands for something beyond itself. |
| Theme | In a literary work, this is the message or insight about life or human nature that the writer presents to the reader. |
| Tone | The writer's attitude toward his or her subject. |
| Comedy | A drama that begins in turmoil and ends in calm. |
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