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43 Cards in this Set
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What is an Oxymoron?
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Two words in a sentence that contradict eachother.
Ex, sunny night |
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What is a Dramatic Hyperbole?
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An exaggeration used for effect.
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What is a Motif?
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A Recurring image or topic in the play.
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What are static characters?
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Characters that do not change over the course of the story.
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What is a Soliloquy?
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A monologue when the character thinks they're alone and speak their thoughts aloud.
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What is a Monologue?
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A long speech by one speaker.
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What is an Epilogue?
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A speech or short poem addressed to the audience by one of the actors after the conclusion of a drama.
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What is a Tragedy?
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Where the main Character dies in the end.
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What is a Horoscope?
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A forcast based on the movements of stars and planets that hint at future events.
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Define Comic Relief
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The relief of tension in humor in a stressful part of the play.
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What is Blank verse?
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Verse written in lines that do not rhyme but have a regular rhythem.
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Define Exeunt
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Mon than one character Exits
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What is a Pun?
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Use of double meaning words in wit and humor
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Stage Directions are...
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Where a scene takes place, when characters exit or enter, and may tell what characters do while on stage.
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What is a Dynamic Character?
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Characters that change, mature, and develope over the course of the story.
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A comedy is...
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A happy ending for the main character.
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What is the script?
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Includes the words the actor speak, which character speaks, and stage directions.
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What is a metaphor?
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saying something is something else, comparing two things without using "as" or "like".
Ex, my mom is a flower |
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What is a Sestet?
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Six line that rhyme.
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What is an Octave?
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eight lines that rhyme
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What is a couplet?
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A pair of Rhyming lines.
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A Quatrain is...
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a group of four lines that rhyme.
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What is Imagery?
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Words that create pictures or impressions in the reader mind.
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Define Rhyme Scheme
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Rhyming words at regular intervals at the end of lines.
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Define Iambic Pentameter
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A rythmic pattern that contains 10 syllables. Every second syllable is stressed.
one TWO three FOUR... |
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Define Feet
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The stressed syllable. An iambic pentametre has 5 feet
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What is Metre?
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The Rythm and length of each line in a stanza
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A stanza is...
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A group of lines in a poem
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A lyric...
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Shows feelings about the poems subject.
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What is a Sonnet?
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A lyric poem.
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What is an Aside?
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When a character speaks directly to the audience but those on stage aren't supposed to hear
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Define Prologue
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At the Beginning of a play or act, an introduction
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A Chorus is...
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A group of people who talk directly to the audience, saying things that they need to know.
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What is the Inner stage?
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It is the Back portion of the main stage, used for characters to "hide"
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What is the Thrust Stage?
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The part of the stage that Juts out into the middle of the inner space, aka surrounded 3 sides by people
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What is the Pit?
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Ground level/stage level. Cheapest spot
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Who was ruler in the Jacobean age, and for how long?
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King JamesI was king from 1603-1625
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Was the Elizabethan Age before or after the Jacobean Age?
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Before, Queen elizabeth was ruler from 1558-1603
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Groundlings are...
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People who stand in the pit, or on ground level.
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An English Sonnet has...
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3 quatrains and ends in a couplet
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An Italian Sonnet has...
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14 lines that are arranged in an octave and a sestet
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What is a Thesis Statement?
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A topic sentence for an essay
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What are Transitional Devices?
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Words or Phrases used to connect ideas
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