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English midterm
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Irony | a situation or use of language involving some kind of inconsistency, unexpectedness,incongruity, or discrepancy |
| Dramatic Irony | incongruity or discrepancy between what a character says of thinks and what the reader knows to be true |
| Situational Irony | an incongruity between appearance and reality, or between expectation and fulfillment, or between the actual situation and what would seem appropriate |
| Verbal irony | figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
| alliteration | words that have the same sound or letter |
| metonymy | A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated |
| resolution | The unraveling of a plots complications at the end of a story or play when the story problems are all resolved the story’s ends |
| anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |
| direct characterization | is a method of describing the character in a straightforward manner:through their physical description, their line of work,and their passion and outside pursuits |
| iambic | the pattern of a poetic line made up of iambs |
| trochaic | A type of verse that consists of or feathers trochees |
| scansion | the identification and analysis of poetic rhythm and meter. To “scan” a line of poetry is to mark its stressed and unstressed syllables |
| foot | the basic unit of measurement of accentuation-syllabic meter. A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable |
| Trochee | A foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllables |
| lamb | a metrical foot consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable or of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Most common one. |
| monometer | a line of verse composed of one foot |
| dimeter | a line of verse composed of two feet |
| trimeter | a line of verse composed of three feet |
| tetrameter | whiches in Macbeth speak this, a line of verse composed of four feet |
| Pentameter | a line of verse composed of five feet |
| Anagorisis | moment when character makes a chritical discovery |
| peripeteia | reversal of circumstance, turning point |
| catharsis | emotional release when hero realizes error |
| pathos | pity/sadness in the audience |
| Hamartia | some excess or mistake result of pride |
| Hubris | Escessive or overbearing pride |
| Allusion | an implied or indirect reference to a person,event, thing or a part of another text |
| Archetype | an image or character that recurs throughout literature consistently enough to be judged universally |
| Atmosphere | the mood or feeling evoked by a work of literature |
| Dedication | a name and often a message prefixed to a literary work |
| Epigraph | a short question or saying, often from working of literature, music, or art that suggests theme |
| Foreshadow | the organization and presentation of event and scenes in a work of fiction or drama so that the reader is prepared to some degree for what occurs later in the work |
| Metaphor | a comparison between unlike things that point to unexpected connection or artistic image |
| personification | portraya; of inanimate or non-human object or being using human traits |
| plot | a series of related events in a story |
| setting | time and location where a story takes place |
| simile | a comparioson between unlike thing using like or as to indicate the connection |
| symbol | person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something more than itself |
| theme | insight about the human condition that an author reveals through literary works |
| Tone | Attitude of the writer or character toward subjects, tone of voice |
| Paradox | statement that seems to be contradictory but that |
| Equivocation | statment that lends itself to multiple interpretations often with deliberate intent to decieve |
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