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Literary Terms Ms. S
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Allusion | an indirect reference to a person, thing event situation, or aspect of culture real or fictional, past or present. |
| Aside | a remark spoken in an undertone by one character either to the audience or to another character which remaining characters do not hear. |
| Chorus | a single actor who recites the prologue |
| Couplet | any two line stanza that contains a complete thought |
| Foil | a character who provides a striking contrast to a main character, thus calling attention to certain traits of the main character. |
| Foreshadowingq | the technique of providing the reader or viewer with hints, clues, or indications about the future action of a story or play |
| Irony | a contrast between what appears to be and what really is |
| Verbal Irony | a person says one thing but means the opposite |
| Situational Irony | what happens in contrary to what is expected to happen |
| Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows what will happen but a character does not |
| Metaphor | a comparison between two essentially unlike things without using like or as. |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that produces an effect by seeming self contradictory, as in "wise fool," "sad joy," and "cruel kindness" |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which a human characteristics are assigned to nonhuman things, or life is attributed to inanimate objects |
| Prologue | an introductory speech, often in verse, calling attention to the theme(s) of a play |
| Prose | the ordinary form of spoken or written language which does not have a regular rhythmic pattern or meter |
| Pun | a play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings |
| Simile | a figure of speech in which two essectially different things are directly compared, usually with the words like or as |
| Soliloquy | a speech of a character in a play delivered while the speaker is alone, that informs the audience of what is passing in the characters mind or gives information concerning other participants in the action which is essential for the audience to know |
| Sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines |
| Tragedy | a dramatic composition dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a noble person whose character is flawed by a single weakness such as pride, envy, etc. |
| Tragic Flaw | a flaw in acharacter that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tragedy |
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