Figurative Language
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a Simile
The repetition of initial consonant sounds.
What is alliteration or King George VI?
A struggle between opposing forces
What is Conflict or the War of the Roses?
A privileged character who by tragedy and fate suffers a fall
What is a Tragic Hero or Harold Godwinson
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A figure of speech where a thing is described as something else without “like” or “as.”
What is a Metaphor
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem.
What is meter?
An intensification of the conflict
What is a Complication or Queen Elizabeth I?
A moment where the audience is to feel pity
What is a Pathos or the Battle of Hastings?
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What is the Maladjusted?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is Personification or Charles III?
A rhyme within a single line of verse.
What is internal rhyme?
The resolution of the plot
What is the Denouement?
A character who is hyperbolic in their identity and one-sided.
What is a foil or King John I?
Number of teams in the NFL
What is 32?
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
The repetition of vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
The theatre where Shakespeare had his plays performed
What is the Globe?
The purging of pity or fear for the audience
What is Catharsis or Henry III of England?
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Who is ACDC?
A contradiction that somehow makes sense
What is an oxymoron or Queen Elizabeth II?
A pause in a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation.
What is a caesura or Danelaw?
A moment where a character makes a critical realisation.
What is an Anagnorisis or a recognition?
A monologue where a character reveals their intentions
What is a Soliloquy or Edward VIII?
A Germanic King declared the Antichrist by the Catholic Church
Who is Frederick II?