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Literary Terms of SH
literary terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allusion | reference to famous of historical person, event, or work. |
| Aside | a dramatic convention in which the character "whispers" a remark which the audience hears, but the other actors are not supposed to hear. |
| Blank Verse | poetry written in iambic pentameter |
| Comic Relief | a humorous scene inserted into an otherwise serious drama. Such a comic interruption is included by the author to provide a breka in the emotional intensity of the drama and by contrast, to heighten the seriousness of the tragedy that follows. |
| Couplet | two rhymed lines, in Shakespeare, a couplet usually signals the end of a scene. |
| Dramatic Irony | this occurs when the audience of a play, or the reader of literature, knows something that a particular character does not know. |
| Epithet | Adjective or descriptive phrase that is regularly used to chracterize a person, place or thing. |
| Foil | a character whose personality or actions are in striking contrast to those of another character. |
| Iambic Pentameter | A line of poetry that contains five iambs (Combination of stressed and unstressed syllables) |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech which is a comparison between two unlike things that have something in common. |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms, such as "noiseless noise", "brutal kindness" or happy pain! |
| "love is a smoke made with the fum of sighs..." | example of a metaphor |
| "Parting is such sweet sorrow"-- Juliet | example of an oxymoron |
| Parallel | a character that has almost identical qualities to another character in the test |
| Paris and Romeo are young, rich and handsome and related to the Prince. They also both love Juliet. | example of parallel |
| Personification | a figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea |
| "Death is my son-in-law, Death is my hear; My daughter he hath wedded."-Capulet | example of personification |
| Pun | a play on the multiple meanings of words |
| "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man"- Mercutio | Mercutio's word play on the word "grave" is the example of a pun. |
| Simile | a figure of speech which makes a comparison using the terms "like", "as", "than", or "resembles" between two unlike things that have something in common. |
| "like the softest music to attending ears." | example of a simile. |
| Soliloquy | a speech that a character gives when he or she is alone. Its purpose is to let the audience know what the character is thinking. |
| Protagonist is of noble birth Protagonist has tragic flaw Hero causes his own tragedy Play ends in death and/or violence | Tragedy! |
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