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Lit Terms
Shakespearean Drama
Poetry
Writing
Plot
100
writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject
What is Tone
100
Long speech in which the character is alone onstage and is speaking their thoughts
What is Soliloquy
100
The descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader
What is Imagery
100
Compares two or more things or contrasts them
What is Compare Contrast
100
When two characters have a problem with each other
What is Conflict
200
Central message or insight into life revealed through a literary work
What is Theme
200
When the audience knows something that the characters in the play do not know.
What is Dramatic Irony
200
The choice of words an author uses
What is Diction
200
Explains a process or presents information
What is Expository
200
The main character in a story who is usually the good guy
What is Protagonist
300
Poem that tells a story through verse
What is Narrative Poem
300
Work of literature especially a play, that results in a catastrophe, a disaster or great misfortune for the main character
What is Tragedy
300
A comparison using like or as
What is Simile
300
Type of writing that tries to convince another person to your point of view
What is Persuasion
300
The main character in a story who is usually the bad guy
What is Antagonist
400
repeated grouping of two or more lines in a poem
What is Stanza
400
Long speech given by a character to the other characters on stage
What is Monologue
400
A comparison that doesn't use like or as
What is Metaphor
400
Comes from a person who was actually there
What is Primary Source
400
A situation in which things are funny because they are emphasizing a problem in society
What is Comic Situation
500
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is Blank Verse
500
A short speech delivered by a character in a play in order to express his or her true thoughts, it usually breaks the fourth wall
What is Aside
500
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
What is Personification
500
The reason an author writes a text
What is Author's Purpose
500
Statement that seems contradictory but actually may be true
What is Paradox