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English final
literary elements, conlfict, and archetype
| Question | ||
|---|---|---|
| reversed sentence/word construction | divice used by shakespear | (blank) |
| metaphor | a comparison of two things that are basically dissimilar, in which one is described in terms of the other | (blank) |
| hyperbole | exaggeration for emphasis; an overstatement | (blank) |
| imagery | the use of words to evoke sensory impressions that are beyond the words themselves | (blank) |
| setting | the place and time the story thats place | (blank) |
| tone | attitude of the author towards the subject | (blank) |
| mood | emotional atmosphere surrounding the words | (blank) |
| point of view | the narrative written from | (blank) |
| theme | overall picture | (blank) |
| personification | an object, abstact idea, or animal is given human characteristics | (blank) |
| allusion | a reference to a person place, poem, book, event or movie outside the story that the author expects the reader to reconize | (blank) |
| blank verse | unrhymbed iambic pentameter | (blank) |
| couplet | 2 lines that have ends that rhyme | (blank) |
| paradox | a statement that is self-contradictory but that makes a point though ideas and words that face against each other phrase which seems to be locially contradictory but make sense | (blank) |
| alliteration | the repetion of sounds at the beginning of words | (blank) |
| allegory | a symbolic represenation of an abstract idea | (blank) |
| quatrain | a 4 line stanza | (blank) |
| stress | emphasis on a syllable of a word | (blank) |
| personvs. self | when a character experiences a struggle between opposing needs, emotions, or desires within her or himself | (blank) |
| person vs. fate | this applies to situations which seem beyond human control such as death, disease or chance | (blank) |
| Italian Sonnet | a poem containing a sestet and octave | (blank) |
| motif | a reoccuring thematic element | (blank) |
| flashback | when an ealier event is refered to | (blank) |
| irony | difference between reality and appearence | (blank) |
| situational irony | when the audience fully knws about a situation which the character had the idea what's happening | (blank) |
| oxymoron | two words when put together that contradict one another | (blank) |
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