What Literary Term Is This?
Romeo and Juliet.
What is a tragedy?
A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end.
What is a tragedy?
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
What is a couplet?
Humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
What is Comic Relief?
A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow / That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
What is a couplet?
A story written to be acted for an audience.
What is a drama?
A group who says things at the same time.
Character who does not change much in the course of a story.
What is a static character?
The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot.
What is foreshadowing?
Every calendar's days are numbered.
What is a pun?
A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot.
What is a prologue?
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
Character who changes as a result of the story’s events.
What is a dynamic character?
A combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp).
What is an Oxymoron?
When there's a hurricane raging outside and someone remarks "what lovely weather we're having".
What is Verbal Irony?
A speech by one character in a play.
What is a monologue?
Direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use.
What is prose?
Character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way
What is a foil?
The audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know.
A girl in a horror film hides in a closet where the killer just went.
What is dramatic irony?
An unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
What is a soliloquy?
Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes.
What is a sonnet?
Event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period.
Words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage.
What is an aside?