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FIVE POETIC DEVICES
Five C's
Macbeth
Speech
Plot
100
the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in close proximity
What is alliteration?
100
how writers reveal characters through speech, dress, manners,and actions.
What is characterization?
100
a character that struggles within himself or herself
What is internal conflict
100
a character speaks his or her thoughts alone on stage
What is soliloquy?
100
a character that contrasts and parallels the main character
What is foil
200
making a non-literal comparison without using like, as, or than
What is metaphor?
200
Comic scene that interrupts intensely dramatic moments
What is comic relief
200
a highly respected character who falls from grace
What is tragic hero
200
comments that help the actor know what to do/how to speak in a play
What is stage directions?
200
the sorting out or unraveling
What is resolution?
300
using like, as, or than to make a non-literal comparison
What is a simile?
300
the turning point of the action
What is climax
300
struggle between two separate forces
What is external conflict
300
a lengthy speech in a play delivered to characters or to the audience
What is monologue?
300
the action following the climax that moves the play toward the resolution
What is falling action?
400
a non-literal extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
the action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the falling action
What is catastrophe
400
a weakness that causes the fall of the tragic hero
What is tragic flow
400
careful selection and placement of words
What is diction?
400
the gradual buildup of actions/ conflicts that lead up to the climax story
What is rising action?
500
attaching human characteristics to non-human things
What is personification?
500
any action that causes an intensification of the conflict
What is complication
500
when the characters in the play experience reversals of fortune and suffering
What is tragedy
500
a character speaks quietly to himself/herself while others are on stage
What is aside?
500
the point at which a character understands his or her situation
What is recognition?