Sonnets
The number of lines a sonnet must have.
What is 14 lines?
What is soliloquy?
When the opposite of what is expected happens.
What is irony?
The definition of a theme.
What is the central idea or moral of a fictional piece of writing?
"The worst film of a generation" uses THIS logical fallacy.
What is overgeneralization?
The meter that Shakespeare most frequently uses in his plays and sonnets.
What is iambic pentameter?
A speech given to others
What is a monologue?
A type of irony where the audience knows something the characters do not.
Dramatic irony
The way an author feels. (Double points for 2 examples)
What is tone?
The part of an argument where you enforce and strengthen your own point (often by providing this)
What are Background and examples (or evidence)?
Poetry written without a pattern or meter.
What is blank verse?
A speech or comment given in the presence of others, but directed at the audience
What is an aside?
A phrase using words with opposing definitions. (add an example for double points)
What is an Oxymoron
Another word for "word choice"
What is diction?
When you acknowledge the opposing point of view.
What is a counterclaim?
A type of sonnet with 14 lines divided into quatrains and a couplet, written in iambic pentameter.
What is an Elizabethan sonnet?
Instructions in a play, written in italics and/or brackets.
What are stage directions?
The character trait that leads to a hero's downfall.
What is a tragic flaw?
A word's IMPLIED meaning.
What is connotation?
When you refute the counterclaim.
What is a rebuttal?
The type of rhyme "painting" and "complaining" create.
Slant, or imperfect rhyme
Iambic Pentameter includes 5 pairs of syllables, and each pair has a stressed syllable and an unstressed syllable. They always follow THIS order.
What is unstressed-STRESSED?
[Tammy enters behind Andre] as Andre gives a speech about how awful Tammy is. This creates THIS type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
"Investigate" is THIS part of speech, while "investigation" is THIS part of speech.
What is a verb and a noun?
The purpose of a counterclaim and rebuttal.
What is strengthen the original argument by proving the other side wrong?