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Literary Terms by jj
english 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds. Alliteration is used to create melody,establish mood,and call attention to certain words. |
| Allusion | an inderect reference to aperson,thing event situation,or aspect of culture real or fictional,past or present.An allusion may draw from literature,myth,history,or the Bible. |
| Aside | a remark spoken in an unertone by one charachter 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;couplets are usally rhymed. |
| Foil | a character who provides a striking contrast to a main character,thus calling attention to certain traits of the main character. |
| Foreshadowing | the technique of proving the reader or viewer with hits,clues,or indications about the futer action of a story or play;prepares the reader for what is to come and helps him/her to anticipate the outcome. |
| Irony | is genaral,a contrast between what appers to be and what really is. |
| VERBAL IRONY | a person says one thing but means anbother. |
| 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 | an implied comparison between two essentially unlike things without using like or as |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech that produce an effect by seeming selfcontradictory,as in ''wise fool'',''sad joy''and ''cruel kindness.'' |
| Personofication | a figure of speech in which 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 a 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 essentially different things are directly compared,usually with the words like or as |
| Soliloquy | a speech of a character in a play deliverd while the speaker is alone, that informs the audience of what is passing in the character`s mind or give information concerning other participants in the action which is essential for the auddience to know |
| Sonnet | a lyric poem of fourteen lines.The Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains each with a rhymed couplet.The typical rhyme scheme is abab,cdcd,efef,gg. |
| 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.,which causes him to break a divine law or moral precept and which inevitably leads to his |
| Tragic Flaw | a flaw in a character that brings about the downfall of the hero of a tregedy;hamartia(Greek for tragic flaw) |
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Joanna.R
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