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Interiority

Inner character or nature; an inner element. Revealing the inner self of a character;what a character is thinking, feeling. A text drifts into interiority when it shows the innerthoughts or feelings of a character.

Dramatic Irony

A literary device in which the reader or audience understands more than thecharacter(s).

Genre

The style, structure, and, often, length of a work, when coupled with a certain subjectmatter, raise expectations that a literary work conforms to a certain genre (French ‘kind’)

Passive voice

a verb formation that causes the subject of a sentence to be passive. The subjectof the sentence receives an action instead of actively performing an action.

Blank Verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Iamb

a metrical foot (unit) with two syllables; the first syllable is unstressed and the second oneis stressed

Iambic pentameter

a type of rhyme scheme or metrical line. Each line contains five iambs.Example: Is this the face that launched a thousand ships? (da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUMda DUM)

Prose

straightforward discourse. Not restricted in rhythm, measure or rhyme. Runs to the end ofthe page.

In Medias Res

In the middle of things. A text begins in medias res when it starts in the middleof a linear story – for example, The Tempest begins with a shipwreck. But the story really beginsmuch earlier, with the exile of Prospero. That part of the narrative is filled in through back-story

Irony

Literary device characterized by a gap between what happens and what is expected tohappen. Real meaning is contradicted by what is said.