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20 Cards in this Set
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Drama |
A story written to be acted for an audience |
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Tragedy |
A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end. |
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Prologue |
A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot. |
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Sonnet |
Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several shame schemes. |
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Prose |
Direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use. |
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Chorus |
A group who says things at the same time. |
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Anachronism |
An event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period. |
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Verbal Irony |
A writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different. |
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Dramatic Irony |
The audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know. |
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Monologue |
A speech by one character in a play. |
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Soliloquy |
An unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thought aloud. |
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Foil |
Character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualifies of 2 characters this way. |
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Oxymoron |
Combination of contradictory term (Example: Jumbo Shrimp) |
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Aside |
Words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others on stage. |
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Pun |
A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
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Comic Relief |
Humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot. |
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Static Character |
Character who does not change much in the course of a story. |
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Dynamic Character |
Character who changes as a result of the story's events. |
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Blank ("unrhymed"- no rhyme at the end of lines) Verse |
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Each line of poetry contains 5 iambs, or metrical feet, that consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. |
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Couplet |
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; couplets often signal the EXIT of a character or end of a scene. |
