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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. |
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Dramatic Irony |
A literary device in which the reader or audience understands more than thecharacter(s). |
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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’) |
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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. |
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Blank Verse |
unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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Iamb |
a metrical foot (unit) with two syllables; the first syllable is unstressed and the second oneis stressed |
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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) |
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Prose |
straightforward discourse. Not restricted in rhythm, measure or rhyme. Runs to the end ofthe page. |
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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 |
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Irony |
Literary device characterized by a gap between what happens and what is expected tohappen. Real meaning is contradicted by what is said. |