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honors english 1 literary devices
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aside | a device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech thatr is heard by the audience but not other characters in the play |
| conceit | An elaborate or unusual comparison--especially one using unlikely metaphors, simile, hyperbole, and contradiction |
| monologue | The character may be speaking his or her thoughts aloud, directly addressing another character, or speaking to the audience, especially the former |
| soliloquy | in a drama a moment when a character is alone and speaks his thoughts aloud on stage "to be or be or not to be" |
| quatrain | a four line stanza which may be ryhmed or unryhmed |
| couplet | a stanza of two lines, usually rhyming |
| alliteration | a repetition of the initial consonant sounds of several words in a group (peter pipper picked...) |
| allusion | a reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. |
| assonance | the repetition of vowels in a literary work especially in a poem.. my shi-ny coin/ is be-hind the sign |
| conosonance | the repetion of middle or ending consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line or lines of poetry... catch the wiND arouND the plains to fiND. |
| foot | basic unit of measurment in aline of poetry.. robin hood ballads= tetrameter- 4 feet to a line |
| meter | a regular pattern of stress and unstressed syllablles in lines of poetry.. (iambic= robin hood ballad) |
| ~/~/~/~/ | iamb meter(iambic tetrameter) |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which an overstatment or exaggeration occurs |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows something that the character does not |
| verbal irony | the contrast is between the literal meaning of what is said and what is meant |
| metaphor | a figure of speech wherein a comparison is made between two unlike quantities without the use of the words like or as |
| oxymoron | a combination of contradictory terms such as "o brawling love! o loving hate" |
| paradox | a situation or statment that seems to contradict itself in reality |
| it was the best of times,it was the worst of times | paradox |
| elizabethan sonnet | 14 lines; a sonnet consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet in iambic pentameter(5 feet to a line) with the rhyme pattern abab cdcd efef ggsonnet with a fixed rhyme scheme |
| personification | a figure of speech in which something nonhumanis given human charcteristics |
| point of view | perspective and referred to either first(own perspective) or third person( knows everything that happpens in the story= narrator) |
| pun | a play on words wherina word is used to convey two meanings ;( ask for me tommorwo and i shall be a grave man- mercutio) |
| setting | the time and place in which a story unfolds |
| simile | a figure of speech that takes the form of a comparison between two unlike quantities for which a basis for comparison can be found (like or as) |
| theme | theme concerns itself with a work's message or contains the general idea of a work; what is the work about?; answers a question |
| tragedy | type of drama where the hero a person who has formerly stood in high degree aparently secure, evenhappy amkes a fatalistic decision that brings about his destruction(usually result of a tragic flaw) |
| ryhme scheme | regular pattern of rhyme that is consistent throughout the extent of the poem. |
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