Mtel- Language Arts

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complex sentence

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composed of an independent clause modified by one or more dependent clauses

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verbs

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express actions or states of being

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Authors of the Classical (Hellenic 500-323bc)period

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Sophicles, Aristophanes, Uripedes,Aeschylus, Plato, Aristotle and Heroditus

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elegies

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Commemorate the life of someone who has died.

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phrases and clauses

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sentences are also composed of

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conjunctions

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link sentence elements

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Middle English

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Anglo Norman Gradually developed into

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figurative language

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language used in ways that are not literal

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prosody

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designation of various formal elements of poetry

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rhetorical tropes

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another name for figures of speech

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metaphor

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comparison of two unlike things by calling one thing by the name of another

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simile

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is like a metaphor, but compares two things by using the words "like" or "as"

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metonymy

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substitutes one word for another with which it is closely associated

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hyperbole

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fanciful or vivid exaggeration

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apostrophe

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a speaker addresses a person who is absent or an inanimate thing or abstract opposite of hyperbole, understates a thought or attribute of something

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oxymoron

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describes something using words with opposite meanings

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prosody

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poetic form including rhythm, meter and rhyme

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alliteration

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repetition of consonant sounds in a poem

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rhythm

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means the regular alteration of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem

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meter

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repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem or stanza

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stanza

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formal subdivision of a poem

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rhyme

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the repetition of vowel sounds at the ends of lines

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rhyme scheme

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the way rhyming sounds are patterned in a whole poem

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assonance

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the repetition of vowel sounds within lines or throughout a poem

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mimesis

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also known as imagery means vivid description, as opposed to narration in the strict sense. Imagery fleshes out the places and things in a fictional text.

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elegie

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form of poetry that commemorates the life of someone who has died

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ballad

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narrative poems that were originally sung and continue to have songlike structure

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lyric

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poems that are short and express a poet's personal thoughts

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epic

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poems that are lengthy and celebrate heroic deeds, philosophical ideas and historical events

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sonnets

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lyric poems consisting of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter

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iambic pentameter

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a traditional form of meter and rhyme scheme

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haiku

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form of a Japanese short poem, usually on the theme of nature consisting of three lines and seventeen syllables

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epigrams

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two line satirical or witty poems

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literary sketch

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very short narrative usually informal or humorous

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comedy

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dramatic genre that deals with everyday or amusing events usually having a happy ending

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tragedy

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characterized by solemn or heroic actions that usually end up unhappily for the protagonist or main character

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first person point of view

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narrator who is actually a character in the narration

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first person narration

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are only aware of events that a character would likely experience

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second person narration

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seems to describe events that the reader or some person the narrator is addressing directly is doing

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third person narration

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stands outside the action of the narration itself and may be omniscient

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omniscient

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narrator may know everything about the characters and events in the fiction

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limited

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the narrator may only know the kinds of things the characters themselves know

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aside

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a character briefly speaks directly to the audience

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soliloquy

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a character utters his thoughts aloud at length

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comic relief

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comic scenes or lines inserted into an otherwise serious play

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melodrama

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popular drama with clear cut heroes and villains

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stock characters

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often appear in melodramas and are stereotyped characters