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Allusion |
A reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
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Ambiguity |
Achieving two things with one statement asid |
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Aside |
A short speech delivered by a character in a play in order to express his or her true thoughts and feelings |
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Catharsis |
Vomit, cleanse Goal of a tragedy |
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Comedy |
A literary work that has a happy ending The comic hero comes into conflict and has to leave Celebration of renewal of life Happy ending= pairing up of males and females |
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Couplet |
A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter |
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Dailogue |
A conversation between characters that may reveal their traits and advance the action of a narrative |
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Dramatic irony |
When the reader or the audience knows something the characters do not |
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Foreshadowing |
a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. |
a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
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Hubris |
excessive pride or self-confidence |
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Verbal irony |
When what someone says is contradicted by what they mean Might be sarcasm |
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Volta |
the turn of thought or argument: |
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Iamb |
a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. |
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Iambic pentameter |
Determined by the number and types of stresses or beats in each line |
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Monologue |
A speech by one character that is addressed to another character or characters |
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Quatrain |
A stanza or poem made up of four lines, usually with a definite rhythm and rhyme scheme |
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Rhyme scheme |
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
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Situational irony |
Depends upon context to be ironic. What is expected is contradicted by reality |
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Soliloquy |
Long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone a stage |
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Sonnet |
A fourteen line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
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Tragedy |
Ends in a disaster, which is usually a lot of deaths A flaw in a tragic hero causes a tragedy Causes the hero to fall in grace Purpose is to inspire catharsis |
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Birth date |
April 23 1564 |
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Place of birth |
Stratford on avon |
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Date of death |
April 23 1616 |
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His parents |
John: illiterate, glover, prosperous, middle class, served on city council for Stratford, legal trouble Mary: a wealthy family, catholic? |
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Marriage |
At the age of 18 he got married to a 26 year old woman Anne Hathaway |
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