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Literature terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dialogue | varied length, between 2 characters, others onstage can hear/respond |
| Monologue | Longer speech, one character, others onstage can hear what is said and respond to it, explain a character's actions |
| Soliloquy | Longer speech, one character, no others can hear what is said, reveals inner thoughts or motives |
| Aside | shorter comment, one character, no others can hear what is said |
| Shakespearean tragedy | drama with serious and dignified style, shows violent catastrophic events by a tragic hero (a noble figure) |
| Noble stature | tragic hero must be essentially admirable and good- usually of noble birth |
| Hubris | excessive pride |
| Hamatia | the tragic flaw that eventually leads to tragic hero's downfall |
| Peripeteia | a reversal of fortune brought about by the hero's tragic flaw |
| Anagnorisis | tragic recognition/insight- the hero realizes the cause of his downfall |
| Catharsis | the feeling of fear and pity that the downfall evokes in the audiences |
| Blank verse | verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter |
| Iambic Pentameter | line of verse with 10 syllables with unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables |
| Rhyme | a repetition of accented vowel sound and all subsequent sounds in a word |
| Exact rhyme | perfect rhyme |
| Approximate rhyme | similar sounds |
| End rhymes | rhymes that occur at the end of the line |
| Internal rhyme | rhymes that occur within lines |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| Consonance | repetition of consonant sounds |
| Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds in words appearing close together |
| Metrical Poetry | poetry with a strict rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line |
| Onomatopoeia | use of words to sound like what they mean/use of ending of words |
| Couplet | two lines at the end of a poem |
| Figurative language | language based on some sort of comparison that is not literally true |
| Personification | figure of speech giving human qualities to a nonhuman thing or to an abstract idea |
| Poetry | a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations |
| Quatrain | rhyming four-line stanzas |
| Symbol | Figure of speech in which an ordinary object, event, animal, or person stands for itself and something beyond itself |
| Metaphor | figure of speech with a direct comparison between two unlike things |
| Simile | figure of speech that uses the words "like, as, than, resembles" to compare things that seem to have little or nothing in common |
| Image | a representation of anything we can see, hear, taste, touch, or smell |
| Imagery | language that appeals to our five senses |
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