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ENG 326
Study terms for Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A character, usually a minor one, who emphasizes the qualities of another one through implied comparison and contrast of the two. | Foil |
| The character (or a force such as war or poverty) in a drama, poem, or work of fiction whose actions oppose those of the protagonist | Antagonist |
| The main character in drama or fiction, sometimes called the hero | Protagonist |
| A pattern of identical or similar images recurring throughout a passage or entire work | Motif |
| involves the difference between what a character believes true and what the better-informed reader or audience knows to be true | Dramatic Irony |
| the attitude a writer conveys toward his or her subject and audience. In poetry, it is sometimes called voice | Tone |
| The emotional content of a scene or setting usually described in terms of feeling; somber gloomy, joyful, expectant. | Mood |
| a moment of insight for a character, in which the light of truth suddenly dawns | Epiphany |
| Unmitigated pride, often the cause of the Hero's downfall in Greek Tragedy. | Hubris |
| Early clues about what will happen later in a narrative or play | Foreshadowing |
| May include the author's comments on the action, presents the story through a combination or characters, shifting from one person's thoughts to another | Omniscient point of view |
| part of a narrative that interrupts the chronological flow by relating events from the past | flashback |
| A viewpoint character who presents a biased or erroneous report that may mislead or distort a reader's judgments about other characters and actions, sometimes the unreliable narrator may be self-deceived | Unreliable point of view/narrator |
| tells the story through the voice of a central character and is often presented as a first person account | Central Point of View |
| Presents the story directly, as a play does, using only external actions, speeches & gestures | Dramatic Point of View |
| An indirect reference to some character or event in literature, history, or mythology that enriches the meaning of the passage | Allusion |
| a literary character with sufficient complexity to be convincing & true to life | Round character |
| in contrast to a well-developed round character, a flat one is stereotyped or shallow, not seeming as complex as real people. | Flat character |
| In film, an overall scene or sequence that provides information about location, atmosphere, period, or other background that the viewer needs for orientation. | Establishing shot |
| in classical tragedy, the purging of pity and/or fear experienced by the audience at the end of a play | Catharsis |
| the attempt to produce an emotional response that exceeds the circumstances and to draw from the readers unthinking feeling instead of intellectual judgement | Sentimentality |
| a film-editing technique. Pieces together two separately shot scenes are intermixed, creating a sequence that moves back and forth between them. The technique invites comparison and contrast between the two scenes. | Crosscutting |
| Something that may be validly interpreted in more than one way; double-meaning | Ambiguity |
| The struggle between characters or forces that causes tension or suspense in the plot. | Conflict |
| a drama is divided into five parts, or acts which some refer to as a dramatic arc: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and dénouement. | Classical Dramatic Structure |
| a film that stays true to the book version | Close adaptation |
| A film that is based on (retains spirit or essence), but strays from the book version | Loose Adaptation |
| a character that does not change or develop | Static Character |
| a character that changes and develops over the course of the story | Dynamic Character |
| the person created by the author to be the speaker of the poem or story. The Persona is not usually identical to the writer. | Persona |
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