A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. Bright black. A calm frenzy. Jumbo shrimp. Dark light. A truthful lie.
What is "Oxymoron?"
100
That /time/ of /year/ thou /mayst/ in /me/ be/hold/
What is "Iambic?"
100
This is a third person narrator who sees, like God, into each character’s mind and understands all the action going on.
What is "Omniscient Narrator?"
200
When an inanimate object takes on human shape. The darkness of the forest became the figure of a beautiful, pale-skinned woman in night-black clothes.
What is "personification?"
200
/Tell/ me /not/ in /mourn/ful /num/bers
What is "Trochiac?"
200
This method is like first person narration but instead of the character telling the story, the author places the reader inside the main character’s head and makes the reader privy to all of the character’s thoughts as they scroll through her consciousness.
What is "Stream of Consciousness?"
300
A speech spoke by a character alone on stage. This is meant to convey the impression that the audience is listening to the character’s thoughts.
What is "soliloquy?'
300
/“Cry/, /cry!/ /Troy/ /burns/, or else let Helen go.”
What is "Spondiac?"
300
When the first person narrator is crazy, a liar, very young, or for some reason not entirely credible the narrator is unreliable.
What is "Unreliable Narrator?"
400
The “cleansing” of emotion an audience member experiences, having lived (vicariously) through the experiences presented on stage.
What is "Catharsis?"
400
And the /sound/ of a /voice/ that is /still/
What is "Anapestic?"
400
This is a third person narrator who generally reports only what one character (usually the main character) sees, and who only reports the thoughts of that one privileged character.
What is "Limited Omniscient Narrator?"
500
In order to observe this, a character’s speech must be styled according to her social station, and in accordance with the occasion. A bum should speak like a bum about bumly things, while a princess should speak only about higher topics (and in a delicate manner).
What is "decorum?"
500
/List/ to the /mourn/ful tra/di/tion, still /sung/ by the /pines/ of the /for/est …
What is "Dactylic?"
500
This is a third person narrator who only reports on what would be visible to a camera. The narrator does not know what the character is thinking unless the character speaks of it.