Fiction
The part of a story which introduces the characters, the setting and the plot.
What is exposition
The context of a rhetorical act, made up (at a minimum) of a rhetor (a speaker or writer), an issue (or exigence), a medium (such as a speech or a written text), and an audience.
What is rhetorical situation?
The pattern of syllables at the end of each line of a poem or song.
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
What is simile?
When a character speaks to oneself, relating thoughts and feelings.
A literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
To convince an audience of the author's credibility or character.
What is ethos?
A resemblance in the sounds of words or syllables between their vowels (e.g., meat, bean)
What is assonance?
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is metaphor?
A character who contrasts with another character - usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
What is foil?
Sometimes called an analepsis, an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.
What is flashback
A way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response to an impassioned plea or a convincing story.
What is pathos?
Iambic pentameter
What is a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable?
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
When the audience knows something that the characters don't.
What is dramatic irony?
The culmination of a story's rising action, the name given to the section of a story in which the central conflict unfolds and tension builds.
What is climax?
The elements of a rhetorical triangle
What are ethos, pathos and logos (or speaker, audience and message)?
Poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but is supposed to be unheard by the other characters in the play.
What is aside?
Also called dénouement/revelation/catastrophe, this is the part of the plot which describes the outcome of the story.
What is resolution?
SOAPSTone stands for...
What are Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject and Tone?
The characteristics of a Shakesperean sonnet (structure, 3 facts)
14 lines, 4 quatrains and a couplet, iambic pentameter.
Figurative language which represents objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses.
What is imagery?
A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.
What is chorus?