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Tragic Hero
is a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities. This person is forced to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering.
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a personality trait of a main character that leads to his or her downfall
Tragic flaw
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Protagonist
leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text
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Antagonist
character, group of characters, institution, or concept that stands in or represents opposition against which the main character must contend
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Foil
a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
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Soliloquy
when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections
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speech presented by a single character to other characters in the play
Monologue
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Aside
is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. It may be addressed to the audience expressly, or to one particular character. An aside is usually a brief comment, rather than a speech, such as a monologue or soliloquy
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Comic relief
comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections
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Classical allusion
reference to a particular event or character in classical works of literature
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Dramatic irony
occurs when the audience knows something the characters do not
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actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected
Situational irony
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Verbal irony
which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning
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Blank verse
poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter
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Heroic couplet
a sequence of rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter
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iambic pentatmeter
metrical line in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm that the words establish in that line, which is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet". Iambic pentameter consists of five feet = 10 syllable, each unstressed syllable follows a stressed syllable.
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Identify 1 literary device: Iago: (To himself) He takes her by the palm: ay, well said, whisper: with as little as web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.
aside
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Identify 1 literary device: Iago: I am about it; but indeed my invention Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize; It pluchks out brains and all: but my Muse labours, And thus she is delivered.
classical allusion
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Identify 1 literary device: (Exeunt Othello and Desdemona) I am glas I have found this napkin: This was her first remembrance from the Moor: My wayward husband hath a hundred times Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token, That she reserves it evermore about her ...
Soliloquy
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Identify 1 literary device: Oth: Iago is most honest. Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest Let me have speech with you.
Dramatic irony
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Identify 2 literary devices: Iago: Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change. Oth: Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic sea, whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and Hellespont; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love, Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow I here engage my words. (kneels.) Iago: Do not rise yet.
Classical allusion monologue
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Identify 1 literary device and explain how the passage is NOT written in iambic pentameter: Oth: 'T is better as it is. Iago: Nay but he prated and spoke such scurvy and provoking terms against your honour, That, with the little godliness I have, I did full hard forbear im. Bit I pray you, sir, Are you fast married? Be assured of this, That the magnifico is much beloved, And hath in his effects a voice potential As double as the due's: he will divorce you, Or put upon you what restraint and grievance, The law, with all his might to enforce it on, Will give him cable.
verbal irony -- not 10 syllables in each line. doe not have 5 iambic feet
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Identify 2 devices in this passage: Let it be so. Good night to every one. (To Brab) And, noble signior, if virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. First sen: Adieu, brave Moor; use Desdemona well. Brabantio: Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see: She has deceived her father, and may thee.
Heroic couplet situational irony
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Identify 2 literary devices: Iago: She never yet was foolish that was fair; For even her folly help'd her to an air.
comic relief heroic couplet
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How does Othello show himself as a tragic hero in this passage? How is this written in blank verse? Othello: It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul:Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow And smooth as monumental alabaster. Yest she must die, else she'll betray more men.
1. shows his descent into madness as he plans to kill Desdemona. 2. unrhymed iambic pentameter throughout most