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34 Cards in this Set
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Comedy |
A play, movie, etc, of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion |
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Tragedy |
A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically involving a great person destined to experience downfall or utter destruction, as through a character flaw or conflict with some overpowering force. |
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Harmatia |
A fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine |
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Anagnorisis |
Moment in a play in which the character makes a critical discovery |
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Verbal irony |
Where a speaker intends to communicate the opposite of what they mean. |
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Tone |
Is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience |
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Point of view |
The angle of considering things, which shows the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved |
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Reliability of narrator |
Shows how much the reader can trust the writer based on their bias or views |
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Assonance |
The repetition of the sound of a vowel of diphthong in nonryhming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible |
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Alliteration |
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |
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Onomatopoeia |
The formation of a word from a sound effect from which it is named |
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Eye rhyme |
A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation. Example: love and move |
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End rhyme |
Last syllables within a verse rhyme |
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Internal rhyme |
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of a line or in the middle of the next |
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Slant rhyme |
Refers to a almost rhyme (farm, yard) |
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End stopped line |
In poetry when the phrase or sentence corresponds in length to the line. (sentence stops with a period or comma, and new phrase begins on next line) |
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Enjambment |
Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza |
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Prefect rhyme |
The ending of two words are the exact same sounds |
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Rhyme scheme |
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
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Free verse |
Poetry without a rhyme scheme or meter |
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Couplet |
Two lines of a verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit |
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Sonnet |
A poem of fourteen lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes, ik English typically having ten syllables per line |
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Ballad |
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Four lines stanzas of ABCB |
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Elegy |
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. |
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Epic |
A long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of a hero or legendary figures in history of a nation |
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Ode |
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject |
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Stanza |
A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse |
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Scansion |
The action of scanning a line or verse to determine its rhythm |
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Feet |
A group of syllables together that are stressed or unstressed |
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Iamb |
Metrical foot consisting of one short (unstressed) syllable followed by one long (stressed) syllable |
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Trochee |
A foot consisting of one stressed syllable and one unstressed syllable |
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Spondee |
A foot consisting of two stressed syllables |
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Pyrrhus |
A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables |
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Iambic pentameter |
Line with 10 syllables with 5 iambs for feet (unstressed, stressed) |
