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Honors 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Catastrophe | The scene in a tragedy which includes the death or moral destruction of the protagonist. |
| Character | a person, or any thing presented as a person in a literary work. |
| Characterization | The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character in a literary work. |
| Classicism | A movement or tendency in art, music, and literature, to retain the characteristics found in work originating in classical Greece and Rome. |
| Climax | The decisive moment in a drama, the climax is the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads. |
| Comedy | A literary work which is amusing and ends happily. |
| Conceit | A far-fetched simile or metaphor, a literary conceit occurs when the speaker compares two highly dissimilar things. |
| Conclusion | (Resolution) Is the point in a drama to which the entire play has been leading. It is the logical outcome. |
| Concrete Poetry | A poem that visually resembles something found in the physical world. |
| Conflict | In the plot of a drama, conflict occurs when the protagonist is opposed by some person or force in the play. |
| Connotation and denotation | Denotation:dictionary definition Connotation:emotional content |
| Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds with differing vowel sounds in words near each other in a line of poetry. |
| Couplet | A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming. |
| Dactyl | A metrical pattern consisting on 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed. |
| Denouement | The part of a drama which follows the climax and leads to the resolution |
| Dialogue | A conversation between characters |
| Diction | An author's choice of words. |
| Didactic Literature | Designed explicitly to instruct. |
| Dramatic Monologue | The occurrence of a single speaker saying something to a silent audience. |
| Elegy | a lyric poem lamenting death. |
| Epic | A major work dealing with an important theme. |
| Epigraph | A brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work. |
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