Narrative Terms
The main character in a narrative
What is a protagonist?
Favored by the gods and overcomes many obstacles to reach an important goal
What is an epic hero?
The official term for regular pattern of rhythm
What is meter?
Words spoken by a character in a play, not intended to be heard by other characters on stage.
What is an aside?
You are my sunshine is an example of this figurative device.
What is a metaphor?
The place or type of surroundings where the events takes place
What is the setting?
When a story begins in the middle of the action
What is in medias res?
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
What is a couplet?
A long, uninterrupted speech that is spoken in the presence of other characters
What is a monologue?
exaggeration for effect
What is hyperbole?
Description involving the five senses
What is imagery?
The repeated use of a word or phrase for the same person in an epic (i.e, Athena, goddess with the gleaming eyes)
What is an epithet?
a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
What is quatrain?
A speech in which a character, alone on stage, expresses their thoughts aloud.
What is a soliloquy?
speaking to a personified object (something that is not alive)
What is apostrophe?
a scene that takes place before a story begins
What is a flashback?
compares heroic or epic events to simple, everyday events
What is an epic simile?
Poetry with no regular meter (rhythm)
What is free verse?
a line of verse with five metrical feet (10 syllables), with the pattern of unstressed/stressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
"bittersweet," "jumbo shrimp," and "act naturally" are examples of this device.
What is oxymoron?
Narrator who assumes an all-knowing perspective on the story being told
What is third-person omniscient?
Odysseus' wife's name
Who is Penelope?
verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter,
What is blank verse?
the situation in which the audience understands more of what is happening or what is being said than the character is aware of
What is dramatic irony?
a figure of speech making reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event to aid in understanding
What is allusion?