A play in which a main character suffers a downfall.
What is tragedy
100
can be divided into two categories: high and low. High makes fun of human behavior in a witty, sophisticated manner. Low involves physical humor and simple, often vulgar, wordplay.
What is Comedy
100
The time and place in which the events of a literary work occur.
What is setting
100
Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement.
What is free verse
100
A type of persuasive writing in which logic or reason is used to try to influence a reader's ideas or actions.
What is Argument
200
this character suffers a downfall and is typically a person of dignified or heroic stature.
What is tragic hero
200
A type of comedy with ridiculous situations, characters, or events.
What is farce
200
The point of greatest emotional intensity, interest, or suspense in the plot of a literary work. (Also called the turning point.)
What is Climax
200
A figure of speech that uses the word like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.
What is simile
200
An author's use of clues to prepare readers for events that will happen later in a story.
What is Foreshadows
300
The downfall may result from outside forces or from a weakness within the character, which is known as a ...
What is tragic flaw
300
Writing that uses humor or wit to ridicule the vices or follies of people or societies to bring about improvement.
What is Satire
300
In a play or story, the action that follows the climax.
What is Falling Action
300
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is Unrhymed verse
300
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike things.
What is metaphor
400
A form of dramatic poetry in which a speaker, describing a crucial moment in his or her life, addresses a silent listener. The speaker may be a fictional or historical figure and is clearly distinct from the poet.
What is Dramatic monologue
400
A humorous scene, event, or speech in an otherwise serious work. It provides relief from emotional intensity, while at the same time highlighting the seriousness of the story.
What is Comic Relief
400
The part of a plot where complications to the conflict develop and increase reader interest.
What is Rising Action
400
A specific poetic meter in which each line has five metric units, or feet, and each foot consists of an unstressed syllable (v) followed by a stressed syllable (’).
What is Iambic Poetry
400
The central message of a work of literature, often expressed as a general statement about life.
What is theme
500
A dramatic device in which a character, alone onstage (or while under the impression of being alone), reveals his or her private thoughts and feelings as if thinking aloud.
What is Soliloquy
500
The resolution of a story. This is a French word meaning "unknotting."
What is Denouement
500
The emotional quality of a literary work. A writer's choice of language, subject matter, setting, diction, and tone, as well as such sound devices as rhyme and rhythm, and meter can help create ...
What is mood
500
A situation or statement that seems to be contradictory but is actually true, either in fact or in a figurative sense.