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Poetry Terms
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Drama Terms
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Vocabulary
100
The repitition of initial consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
100
Boom, crash, weep, bang
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A short speech delivered by a character in a play in order to express his or her thoughts and feelings. The only people who can hear this are the people to whom it is directly addressed.
What is aside?
100
A type of character that shows many different traits, faults as well as virtues.
What is round character?
100
(n) a means to an end; (adj) advantageous, useful
What is expedient?
200
A poem that tells a story; it has a plot, setting, and characters
What is narrative poetry?
200
The Sky looked dark and angry.
What is Personification?
200
notes included in the drama to describe how the word is ro be performed or stage. These instructions are printed in italics and are not spoken aloud. They are used to describe sets, lighting, sound effects and the appearance, movement and personalities of characters.
What are stage directions?
200
The high point of interest or suspense in a work of literature.
What is climax?
200
(adj) endlessly
What is ad infinitum?
300
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. It is often indicated bt using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme (A, B, A, B, C)
What is rhyme scheme?
300
mend, bend talk, walk love, dove
What is exact rhyme?
300
a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy
What is tragic hero?
300
The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur.
What is foreshadowing?
300
(n) a forecast of the probably course and outcome of a disease or situation
What is prognosis?
400
A statement that seems contradictory on the surface, but actually reveals a truth, like "much maddness is divinest sense."
What is paradox?
400
hat, sit, that, whit
What is consonance?
400
A type of irony in which there is a contradiction between what the character thinks and what the reader/audience knows to be true.
What is Dramatic Irony?
400
A reason that explains or partially explains why a character thinks, feels, acts or behaves in a certain way.
What is motivation?
400
made up or delivered on the spur of the moment
What is extemporaneous?
500
The repitition of words that sound alike but do not rhyme exactly: grove, love.
What is slant rhyme?
500
my love is like a rose The girl laughed like a hyena
What is simile?
500
A long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage.
What is soliloquy?
500
a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form
What is paraphrase?
500
(v) to reward, pay, reimburse
What is remunerate?