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Short Story Terms
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Short Story/Poetry/Drama Terms
Lecture Notes
100
An object or thing that represents an idea, feeling, or person.
What is a Symbol
100
The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds of beginning words.
What is Alliteration
100
Consists of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.
What is Blank Verse
100
An unusually long speech in which a character that is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
What is a Soliloquy.
100
This English playwright is also known as "The Bard"
What is William Shakespeare
200
An interruption in the flow of the story to portray an incident that occurred in the past.
What is a Flashback
200
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines.
What is a Rhyme
200
A play on words, often using words that sound alike but are spelled differently.
What is a Pun
200
Attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things or abstractions
What is Personification
200
A famous theatre that Shakespeare's plays were performed at.
What is The Globe
300
A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature within the text.
What is an Allusion
300
A series of musically pleasant sounds, conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language.
What is Euphony
300
A preface or introduction most frequently associated with drama
What is a Prologue
300
The tone of the narrative
What is Mood
300
Occurred from 1400-1600
What is The Rennaissance
400
Jessica and her arch-enemy are in a battle to the death.
What is Person vs. Person
400
Any figure of speech that was once clever and original but through overuse has become outdated.
What is a Cliche
400
The narrator of a play.
What is the Chorus
400
A technique in which the author gives hints or clues as to what is going to happen.
What is Foreshadowing
400
A way of thinking that places importance on humans, rather than divine or spiritual matters.
What is Humanism
500
Frank is obsessed with his self-image and struggles to lose weight.
What is Person vs. Self
500
Indicating a person, object, etc. by letting only a certain part represent the whole.
What is Synechdoche
500
Drama that tells about serious and important actions that end unhappily.
What is a Tragedy
500
Bob struggles to survive the hurricane
What is Person vs. Nature
500
One of the most devastating pandemics in human history.
What is The Black Death