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Drama
Elements of Style
Fiction
Form
Syntax
100
Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play.
What is an aside?
100
Informal: appropriate to, used in, or characteristic of spoken language or of writing that is used to create the effect of conversation.
What is colloquial?
100
Reference to a historical event or to a mythical or literary figure
What is an allusion?
100
Adjective describing a literary work intended to teach a lesson or a moral principle
What is didactic?
100
Combines independent clause with a dependent (subordinate); dependent clauses that contain subordinating conjunctions (although or because) or relative pronouns (which, that, who) can no longer stand alone as simple sentences.
What is a complex sentence?
200
Short section at the end of a book: a short chapter or section at the end of a literary work, sometimes detailing the fate of its characters
What is an epilogue?
200
Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or vituperates against. It can be directed against a person, cause, idea, or system.
What is invective?
200
The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one, as in the use of "pass away" instead of "die."
What is an euphemism?
200
A narrative structure that provides a setting and exposition for the main narrative in a novel.
What is a frame?
200
Omission of implied word: the omission of one or more words from a sentence, especially when what is omitted can be understood from the context.
What is an ellipsis?
300
A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and course with of characterization or articulated plot.
What is farce?
300
Contradictory statement that may actually be true. Paradox is similar to oxymoron in that both figures of speech use contradictions to state a truth.
What is paradox?
300
Use of a word or phrase for another to which it bears an important relation, as the effect for the cause, the abstract for the concrete, and similar constructions.
What is metonymy?
300
Imitation of a literary work or film–or the style used by a writer or filmmaker–in order to ridicule the work and its writer or producer.
What is a parody?
300
A sentence in which the subject appears after the verb.
What is an inverted sentence?
400
The imaginary wall of the box theater setting, supposedly removed to allow the audience to see the action
What is the fourth wall?
400
Bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed
What is sarcasm?
400
Substitution of a part to stand for the whole, or the whole to stand for a part.
What is synecdoche?
400
Logical reasoning: reasoning that proceeds methodically from a statement to a conclusion.
What is argumentation?
400
Juxtaposition of two words, phrases, clauses, or sentences contrasted or opposed in meaning in such a way as to give emphasis to contrasting ideas.
What is an antithesis?
500
Appearance of being true: the appearance of being true or real; something that only seems true: something that only appears to be true or real, for example, a statement that is not supported by evidence
What is verisimilitude?
500
One of the hallmarks of the style of the Greek epic poet Homer is the epithet, a combination of a descriptive phrase and a noun.
What is an epithet?
500
Omitting letters or sounds within a word.
What is syncope?
500
An extended fictional prose narrative about improbable events involving characters that are quite different from ordinary people.
What is a Romance Novel?
500
Logical order of paragraphs and ideas, with appropriate transitions to help readers connect the points the writer is making
What is coherence?