Poetry
Speaker, Form, Imagery, Figurative Language, Sound
What are the Five Poetic Elements?
The ordinary language people use in speaking or writing anything that is not poetry.
What is prose?
Communicates ideas besides the ordinary or literal meanings of words.
What is figurative language?
A speech that a character gives when he or she is alone on stage. The purpose is to let the audience know what the character is thinking.
What is soliloquy?
A type of prose that usually has a main idea, often called a “claim” or “thesis statement,” backed up with evidence that supports the idea.
What is argument?
Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is imagery?
A universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
What is theme or theme statement?
Comparison between two unlike things that share a common element.
What is a metaphor?
A character whose personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work.
What is a foil?
Description of a character's appearance, behavior, beliefs, and motives.
What is characterization?
Lines of poetry that are grouped together.
What is a stanza?
First sentence of a body paragraph that identifies one aspect of why the Main Thesis/Claim is true.
What is topic sentence or sub-claim
The use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.
What is irony?
Type of drama that ends in catastrophe--most often death for the main character who is usually of noble birth.
What is tragedy?
The POV that uses a narrator with access to only one character's perspective.
3rd POV limited
A pattern of sounds by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables (beats).
What is Rhythm?
The purpose is to connect the quote to another part of the text and to the main idea/claim (theme) you are proving.
What is commentary or analysis?
A brief reference, within a work, to something outside the work that the reader or audience is expected to know.
What is allusion?
A form of poetry that uses unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
The event that sets the main character or characters on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative.
What is inciting incident?
A repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words, ex. Some ship in distress, that cannot live.
What is Assonance?
The target group to whom a writer is speaking through their work.
What is audience?
Something that stands for something beyond itself.
What is symbol?
When the audience knows more than the character(s) in the play.
What is dramatic irony?
The attitude that a character or narrator or author takes towards a given subject.
What is tone?