a story in which a heroic character either dies or comes to some other unhappy end
What is tragedy?
100
brief or extended comparison of something with something else
What is a metaphor?
100
the highest point of tension in the conflict
What is the climax?
100
a discrepancy between appearances and reality
What is irony?
100
the repetition of vowel sounds
What is rhyme?
200
a long speech in which a character who is alone onstage expresses private thoughts or feelings
What is a soliloquy?
200
comparing inanimate things to people
What is personification?
200
a scene that interrupts the story to introduce an event that took place in the past
What is a flashback?
200
when something unexpected or inappropriate happens
What is situational irony?
200
the voice that addresses the reader in a poem
What is the speaker?
300
the protagonist of a tragedy, usually of high character and noble birth
What is a tragic hero?
300
a comparison using “as” or “like”
What is a simile?
300
establishes character and setting prior to or as part of the conflict
What is exposition?
300
when someone says one thing but means another
What is verbal irony?
300
repetition of a consonant sound
What is alliteration?
400
a tragic flaw or serious character defect, usually characterized by overconfidence or excessive ambition
What is hubris?
400
a concrete object that stands for something abstract
What is a symbol?
400
hints in the story that certain events are going to happen later
What is foreshadowing?
400
an exaggerated description or statement
What is hyperbole?
400
the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures
What is parallelism?
500
the relief or exhilaration felt by the audience at the end of a tragedy. This emotional purging occurs after the audience feels pity and fear for the tragic hero
What is catharsis?
500
a statement that appears to contradict itself but contains a truth beneath the surface
What is a paradox?
500
The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist
What is the reversal?
500
when the audience understands something that the character does not