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tragedy |
narrative about serious and important action that end unhappily usually the death of the main character EX:when romeo and Juliet kill them self |
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expositition |
establishes the setting introduces some of the main characters explains background and introduces the main characters main conflict
EX: the odyssey |
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rising action |
consists of a series of complications these occur as the main characters take action to resolve their problems EX:romeo and juliet start seeing each other |
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crisis or turning point |
the moment when a choice made by the main characters determines the direction of the action
when the forces of the conflict came together EX: when romeo gets banished |
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falling action |
presents events that result from the action taken at the turning point looking the character or their path of destiny
EX:when romeo buys the poison |
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climax |
the final and greatest moment of emotion intensity or suspense in a plot that usually marks the moment when the conflict is decided one way or another
EX:when romeo and juliet sneak out to see each other |
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resolution or denouement |
the loose parts of the plot are all tied and wrapped in a pretty package ending the story
EX: when they figure out that romeo and juliet killed each other to be together |
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meter |
the regular pattern or measurable repetition of accented and unaccented syllables in verse
EX: one of the ways Shakespeare writes |
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black verse |
poetic form that usually uses a palter know as unrythmed iambic pentameter
EX: one way Shakespeare writes |
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iambic pentameter |
line of poetry that contains five iambs EX:rhyming scheme |
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drama |
story written to be acted for an audience
EX: Romeo and juliet |
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tragic flaw |
trait of main character that leads to death or downfall EX:romeo wanting to see juliet |
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dramatic foil |
character who contrasts with another character EX:binvolio |
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sonnet |
poetic form that means little song EX: prince's opening speach is a sonet |
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couplet |
two rhyming lines
EX: when romeo is talking about people he likes |
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soliloquy |
an unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud
EX:romeo when he is fantasying |
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aside |
words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that not supposed to be overheard by others onstage
EX:juliet giving her balcony speach |
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monologue |
speech given by someone or a long one sided conversation EX:princes speeches |
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mood |
inducing or suggestive of a particlar feeling or state of mine EX:what shakespeare wants you to feel for that part of the story |
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tone |
attitude a writer takes toward the audience a subject or a character
EX:what shakespeare wants you to think of someone |
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allusion |
reference to a statement a person a place or an event from literature history religion mythology politics sports science or popculture
EX:when you thought that romeo and juliet would live together after juliet faked her death |
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foreshadowing |
when a author provides hints of what is to come later on in the plot EX: when romeo bought poison |
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theme |
the central ideal idea or insight about life revealed in a work of literature EX:"might be stated as love is more powerful than family loyalty"romeo and juliet P.735 |
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pun |
play on the multiple meaning of a word or two sounds a like but have different meanings EX:the servants at the beginning |
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oxymoron |
statement that is self contradictory
EX:when juliet says prating is sweet sorrow |
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bildingsroman |
a coming of age novel that deals with the protagonist moral and psychological develoment
EX:Jem as he changed |
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denotation |
literal meaning of a word
EX:when atticus says it takes real courage |
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connotation |
implied meaning of a word expressed in a positive and or negative term EX:when scout is cursing |
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direct characterization |
writer tells you directly what a character is like EX: scout |
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indirect characterization |
writer makes you use our own judgement putting clues together to figure out what a character is like EX: bo radley |
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symbols |
person place thing or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well
EX: mockingbirds |
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first person point of view |
one of the characters is actually the narrator telling the story using the pronoun I
EX:scout telling the story |
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irony |
contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality between what is said and what it really meant between what is expected to happen and what really does happen or between what appears to be true and what is really true
EX: when the kids try to get bo to come out |
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imagery |
language that appeals to the senses EX:tom robinson |
