Fiction and Form
This character type does not change as a result of events in the plot.
What is a static character?
This refers to the "dictionary" meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
In Shakespeare's plays, there are five of these.
What is an act?
"When does lunch start? I'm starving!" is an examples of this figure of speech.
What is hyperbole?
"Five miles meandering with mazy motion" employs what sound device?
What is alliteration?
This element provides background information about characters, setting, and plot.
What is exposition?
When characters engage in conversation, it is called this.
What is dialogue?
A character who delivers a relatively extended speech while others listen engages in this dramatic convention.
What is a monologue?
This poem by John Updike employs what dominant figure of speech?
"Sunday Rain"
The window screen
is trying to do
its crossword puzzle
but appears to know
only vertical words.
What is personification?
This is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
This type of story can be read at multiple levels and interpreted in multiple ways.
What is allegory?
This is determined by a writer's choices in diction, syntax, attitude, and style.
What is voice?
When the outcome of the plot results in the downfall of the protagonist, a play falls under this category.
What is tragedy?
This term describes a passing reference to historical or fictional characters, places, events, or other works that the writer assumes the reader will recognize.
What is allusion?
The quatrains in this verse form pose a problem that is resolved by the couplet.
What is the sonnet?
This type of story provides a moral lesson.
What is a parable?
This term describes any form of literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism for the purpose of ridiculing folly, vice, stupidity, etc. in individuals and institutions.
What is satire?
While alone, Hamlet delivers one of the most well-known of these in order for the audience to know what he is thinking.
What is a soliloquy?
This figure of speech substitutes the name of a related object, person, or idea for the subject at hand.
What is metonymy?
A foot of this type of rhythm has two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable.
What is anapestic?
This is the opposite of prose.
What is verse?
This rhetorical device describes a statement of situation which, while apparently self-contradictory, is nonetheless essentially true.
What is paradox?
This translates to "god from the machine."
What is deus ex machina?
This is a figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing.
What is synecdoche?
This is a type of poem in which a single character, overheard speaking to a silent listener, reveals a situation.
What is dramatic monologue?