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english1-2012
english final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| character foil | a character who provides a strong contrast to another character. EX: mercutio is a foil to the lovestruck romeo |
| Tragedy: | a play where the character suffers a down fall EX: when Romeo thought Juliet was dead. |
| Aside: | characters comment directly to the audience. when the servants were talking |
| Prologue: | introductory section of the play EX: at the begining where it talks about and introduces the characters, settings, and whats about ot happen |
| Dramatic Irony: | the audience/reader knows infomation that the character does not know EX: when romeo though juliet was dead. the reader knew it was a fake death |
| Dialogue: | conversation between characters |
| soliloquy: | long speech by a character. |
| chorus: | group of people who tell you where you at in the story. EX: naratives |
| indirect characterization: | character shown threw action not words EX:"she sat in the corner all alone scared to talk to another kid." |
| Idiom: | an expression that means something different from the literal meaning EX:turn the tables |
| Pun: | humorous use of words that are similar in sound EX: ask for me tommarow and you shall find me a grave man |
| oxymoron: | a figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined. EX:bright darkness |
| Alussion: | an indirect referance to a well known person EX: pharoah supporting slavery |
| anaglogy: | comparison that shows similarities EX:romeo comparing juliet to the sun |
| Paradox: | situation or statement that appears to be impossible EX: bright darkness |
| similie: | comparing something using like or as EX:she is as preety as the stars |
| Metaphor: | figure of speech that compares not using like or as EX:hperbole |
| onomonopeia: | sounds EX: buzzzz |
| flashback: | an interuption in the chronological order of a narrative to describe an event that happend earlier |
| personofication: | when you give inanimate objects human like features EX: the stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky |
| foreshadowing: | to show something is going to happen beforehand EX: it can be seen through prediction by the character |
| repition: | repeationg consonance |
| paraphrasing: | restating or rewording |
| blank verse: | unrhymed verse |
| sonnet: | a poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes |
| meter: | regular pattern of stressed and nonstressed syllabols EX: (') stressed (`) unstressed |
| comma rules: | use a comma to seperate contrasting sentences |
| Pronoun Agreement: | a word used to stand for a noun |
| infinitives: | Phrases that can function as nouns |
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