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EnglishTerms4Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| theme | a generally recurring subject or idea that noticeably evident in a literary work. not all subjects in a work can be considered a theme, only the central one(s). |
| Lyric poem | a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of single speaker. Often written in the first person, it traditionally has a song like immediacy and emotional force. |
| Narrative Poem | A poem that tells a story. ballads and epics are two common forms of narrative poetry |
| Dramatic monologue | A poem written as a speech made by a character at some decisive moment. The speaker is usually addressing a silent listener. |
| Tone | the mood or manner or expression in a literary work |
| irony | in language, a discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. In life, a discrepancy between what is expected and what occurs. |
| verbal irony | a mode of expression in which the speaker or writer says the opposite of what is really meant, such as saying “Great story!” in response to a boring, pointless,anecdote. |
| dramatic irony | a situation in which the larger implications of a character’s words, actions, or situation are unrealized by that character but seen by the author and the reader or audience |
| Cosmic irony | the contrast between a characters position or aspiration and the treatment he or she receives at the hands of a seemingly hostile fate; also called irony of fate |
| Diction | word choice or vocabulary. Diction refers to the class or words that an author chooses as appropriate for a particular work |
| Allusion | A breif, sometimes indirect, reference in a text to a person, place, or thing. |
| simile | a comparison of two things, indicated by some connective, usually like, as, or than, or a verb such as resembles |
| metaphor | a statement that one thing is something else, which, in a literal sense, it is not |
| personification | the endowing of a thing, an animal, or an abstract term with human characteristics. |
| paradox | a statement that at first strikes one as self contradictory, but on reflection reveals some deeper sense |
| stanza | a recurring pattern of two or more lines of verse, poetry’s equivalent to a paragraph |
| rime scheme | any recurring pattern of rime within an individual poem |
| refrain | a word, phase, line or stanza |
| ballad | a song that tells a story |
| Alliteration | the repetition of a consonant sound in a line of verse or prose |
| onomatopoeia | an attempt to represent a thing or action by a word |
| Closed form | a generic form that describes poetry written in a pattern or meter, rime, lines or stanzas |
| Open form | verse that has no set scheme |
| Blank verse | contains five iambic feet per line (iambic pentameter) and is not rimed. |
| Couplet | a two lined stanza in poetry, usually rimed and with lines of equal length. |
| Sonnet | a fixed form of fourteen lines, traditionally written in iambic pentameter and rimed throughout. |
| Foreshadowing | the technique of arranging events and information in such a way that later events are prepared before hand, whether through specific words, images, or actions |
| conflict | the central struggle between tow or more forces. |
| Climax | the moment of greatest intensity, which almost inevitably comes towards the end of a work |
| Soliloquy | in drama, a speech by a character alone on stage in which he or she utters his or her thoughts aloud |
| Aside | a speech that a character addresses directly to the audience, unheard by the other characters onstage |
| Tragic Flaw | a fatal weakness or moral flaw in the protagonist that brings him or her to a bad end |
| Hubris | overweening pride, outrageous behavior, or the insolence that leads to ruin, the antithesis of moderation or rectitude |
| Recognition | in tragic plotting, the moment of recognition occurs when ignorance gives way to knowledge, illusion to disillusion |
| Catharsis | the feeling of emotional release or calm the spectator feels at the end of tragedy |
| protagonist | the central character in a literary work |
| antagonist | the most significant character or force that opposes the protagonist |
| realism | an attempt to reproduce faithfully the surface appearance of life, especially that of ordinary people in everyday situations |
| naturalism | a type of fiction or drama in which the characters are presented as products or victims of environment and heredity |
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