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Humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
Comic relief
A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serous & important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
Tragedy
A character who does not change much in the course of the story.
Static character
Humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot.
Comic relief
A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot.
Prologue
Event of detail that is in appropriate for the time period.
Anochronism
2 consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; often signaling the exit of a character or end of a scene.
Couplet
A group who says things at the same time.
Chorus
An unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage along expresses his or her thought aloud.
Soliloguy
A character who does not change much in the course of the story.
Static character
Direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use.
Prose
Five pairs with a light syllable followed by a stressed syllable
iambic pentameter
Words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overhead by others.
Aside
A speech by one character in the play.
Monologue
What literary device is this? He has a heart of gold.
Metaphor
A story written to be acted for an audience.
Drama
Poetry written in unrhymed imabic pentameter.
Blank verse
A character who changes as a result of the story's events.
Dynamic character
A combination of contradictory terms (ex. jumbo shrimp).
Oxymoron
The audience or reader knows something important that a character in the play or story does not know.
Dramatic Irony
A character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets- off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters
Foil
a lyric poem consisting of a single stanza of fourteen iambic pentameter lines linked by an intricate rhyme scheme
Sonnet
A play on multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Pun
A story written to be acted for an audience.
Drama
A writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different.
Verbal Irony.