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38 Cards in this Set
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Cast of characters |
A list of characters presented before the action begins |
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Allusion |
A literary reference to a well known work or art , history, or literature |
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Blank verse
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Non rhyming poetry |
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Comic relief |
In a tragedy, break in the seriousness for relief |
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Double entendre |
A word or phrase with more than one meaning |
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Dramatic irony |
When the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story don't know |
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Euphemism |
A substitution of nice words for mean ones |
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Figurative language |
Speech not meant to be taken literally |
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Foreshadowing |
Hints of events to occur later in a story |
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iamb |
A unit in poetry consisting of and unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
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Imagery |
Pictures of the mind |
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Irony |
What is expected and what really happens or appearance versus reality |
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Imagery |
Pictures of the mind |
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Irony |
What is expected and what really happens or appearance versus reality |
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Metaphor |
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is replaced by another often indicating a likeness or similarity between them |
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Oxymoron |
When two opposite terms are used together |
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Oxymoron |
When two opposite terms are used together |
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Personification |
Attributing human characters to nonhuman objects
For example giving human characteristics to a pencil |
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Prose |
Normal speech rhythm |
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Pun |
Play on words |
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Pun |
Play on words |
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Rhyming couplet |
To rhyming lines at the end of the speech signaling that a character is leaving the stage or that the scene is ending |
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Simile |
A figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as |
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Act |
a division within the play much like chapters of a novel |
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Aside |
Lines that are spoken by character directly to the audience |
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Cast of characters |
A list of characters presented before the action begins |
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Chous |
Group of people who act as a narrator |
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Comedy |
A humorous work of drama |
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Drama |
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Dialoge |
A conversation between two or more characters |
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Drama |
A work of literature designed to be perform in front of an audience |
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Foil |
A character who is nearly is nearly opposite of another character |
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Monolougue |
A long speech spoken by a character to himself, another character , or to the audience |
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Scene |
A division of an act into smaller parts |
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Sliloquy |
Thoughts spoken aloud by a character when he /she is alone or thinks he/she is |
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Stage directions |
Instructions for the stage |
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Tragedy |
A serious work of drama in which the hero suffers catastrophe or serious misfortune, usually because of his own actions |
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Tragic hero |
A protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to his demise |
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