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Rhythm

the beat or flow

4th Wall

The idea that the stage is in one area in a particular time in a drama and the audience is in another

Allegory

A story that can be read at both a literal and metaphorical level.

Alliteration

the repetition of beginning sounds of advent to closely located words

Allusion

reference to another work of art

Anaphora

Repetition of initial words in more than one line

Antagonist

Character in conflict with the protagonist

Antithesis

Contrasting ideas

Apostrophe

The speaker talk directly to someone not present or dead or an inanimate object

Aside

a comment made by a character in a play to the audience which the other characters in stage pretend not to hear

Assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming stressed syllables

Ballad

a narrative song

Blank verse

poetry that has meter but no consistent end rhyme

Cacophony

a harsh collection of sounds meant to signal noise or discord

Caesura

a full stop in the middle of a line of poetry(period, semicolon, exclamation mark, question mark)

Character

a person in a short story, play or novel

Chorus (greek drama)

repeats important information and ask question to direct the drama

Climax (crisis)

the turning point in a story or drama

Comedy

a lighthearted work, not serious in nature or theme

Concrete poetry

poems that are written in the shape of figure

Conflict

A problem

Connotation

associations with words (figurative meanings)

Consonance

Repetition of several consonant sounds in non rhyming words (Ex. pitter patter)

Conventions

Literary devices that agreed upon between the actors and the audience.

Couplet

Two consecutive lines of poetry, usually rhyming.

Heroic couplet

A rhyming couplet which is written in iambic pentameter

Denotation

Dictionary definition of words

Denouement (Resolution, Falling action)

Final details and aftermath of the story or drama

Dialogue

words that the character say to one another. A conversation.

Diction

Choice and use of words

Irony

A discrepancy between what is expected and what happens

Dramatic Irony

When readers know something that the characters do not know

Dynamic character

a type of character that has a change during the course of the story

Elegy

a poem written in mourning of a person who has died

Enjambment

the meaning of an idea or phrase is carried onto the following line in a poem

Epic

a long narrative poem that tells the story of a hero

Epiphany

A characters sudden realization that changes their way of thinking

Euphemism

a positive light or spin on something

Euphony

a pleasing collection of sounds meant to signal music or harmony

Exposition

The beginning part of a story or drama where the setting and characters are revealed.

Falling Action (Denouement)

Final details and aftermath of the story or drama

Figurative

Words in an imaginative sense that is not literal

Flashback

When it speaks of information of the past

Flat Character

We know no information

Foil Character

One of two characters who are in the same or similar situation, but have different attitudes toward it.

Foot

Designated pattern of one stressed/strong (s) syllable with one two unstressed/weak (w) syllables.Inidividual unit

Foreshadowing

a hint about what will happen

Free Verse

poetry without a regular pattern of rhyme or meter

Greek Drama

Origin of Western drama

Hamartia (Greek tragedy)

Fatal/ tragic flaw that will lead to their downfall

Hubris

Excessive pride

Haiku

a Japanese form consisting of 3 Ines with 5, 7 , and 5 syllables respectively.

Harmony

agreement in a pattern of sounds

Hyperbole

exaggeration

Imagery

words that appeal to the senses

Irony

A discrepancy between what is expected and what happens

Verbal Irony

Sarcasm, saying the opposite of what is meant

Situational Irony

The readers expect one thing and something completely different happens

Dramatic Irony

When readers know something that the characters do not know

Cosmic Irony

Twist in fate

Limerick

5 line poem with a AABBA rhyme scheme

Literal

words at their most basic sense

Anecdote

The word “literally” means actually true

Litotes

types of understatement which navigates a negative idea to give a positive one

Lyric poetry

generally, poetry. Originally chants or songs

Malapropism

Using a similar sounding word by accident

Meaning

information or ideas conveyed in a text. It has several layers of meaning

Metaphor

Direct comparison

Meter

System of beats. of stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern

Iambic meter

(unstressed/stressed) most closely resembles the pattern of nature speech in English

Trochaic meter

(stressed/unstressed)- encourages chanting

Spondaic meter

9stressed/stressed)

Anapestic meter

(unstressed/unstressed/stressed) - originally a Greek martial rythm. creates a sense of action

Dactylic meter

(stressed?unstressed?unstressed)- often used in nursery rhyme

Scansion

reading of a line to determine meter

Metonymy

(“change of name”) a type of metaphor where its concrete idea. EX. The White House made a speach today

Muse

Inspiration

Narrator

The character in a story that tells the story

1st person

Narrator tells the story about self

1st person unreliable

talks about self Biased in some way

3rd person objective

Narrator tells the story about someone else, but can only report on the characters actions

3rd person Omniscient

Tells the story about someone else but makes own commentary

3rd person omniscient limited

he/ she…only knows about protagonist

3rd person unreliable

He/she… Biased on something

3rd person omniscient

Knows everything about the characters

Onomatopoeia

Sounds into words “click, boom”

Oxymoron

contradict but shows deeper truth

Paradox

error in a system that leads to something being true

personification

giving human qualities

Plot

Sequence of events

Poetic license

Invasion of a new word

Poetry

A form of art that is written in lines or verse as opposed to prose

Point of view

perspective of the narrator or speaker

Prop

a small object used by the characters in a drama

Protagonist

the main character

Pun

Play on words, sound similar but with very different meanings

Quatrain

a 4 line stanza that stands alone

Refrain

a phrase, a line, or more than one line that recurs through the poem

Repetition

Recurrence of a sound or a pattern of sounds

Resolution (Denoument, Falling action)

Aftermath of the story