Drama
a long speech made by one actor in a play, film, etc, especially when alone.
What is a monologue?
normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.
What is a sonnet?
usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme.
What is a stanza?
a kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.
the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words.
What is alliteration?
a play within a play or a moment in which a play draws attention to its fictionality
What is metadrama?
a writer follows an established pattern of lines, meter, rhymes, and stanzas; the writer follows conventions: rules and characteristics used so often that they define the form.
What is closed form?
the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.
What is enjambment?
a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.
What is an allusion?
the sensory details of a work
What is imagery?
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
What is a soliloquy?
a two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same.
What is a couplet?
a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause.
What is caesura?
a deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration. It may be used for either serious or comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
an implied analogy, or comparison, which is carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem.
What is an extended metaphor?
non-linear narrative technique, readers experience the real-time, unfiltered perceptions, thoughts, and feelings of a character
What is stream of Consciousness?
a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations upon death or another solemn theme.
What is an elegy?
the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. The term usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different
What is consonance?
the contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning
What is irony?
any person who through contrast underscores the distinctive characteristics of another
What is a foil?
any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings.
What is a lyric poem?
emphasize contrasts within particular sections of a text. often, they are signaled by a physical marker and may indicate a change in a character’s thinking, a reconsideration, a new insight, or even a new perspective.
What is a shift?
an original model after which similar things are patterned; a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, universally present in individual psyches.
What is an archetype?
something that is simultaneously itself and a sign of something else.
What is a symbol?