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Poetic Devices
Plot
Conflict
Speech
Potpourri
100
Making a non-literal comparison on without using like, or as, or than
What is a metaphor?
100
The gradual buildup of actions/conflicts that lead up to the climax of the story.
What is rising action?
100
When the characters in a play experience reversals of fortune and suffering
What is Tragedy?
100
A character speaks his or her thoughts alone on stage
What is Soliloquy?
100
"Vaulting ambition"
What is Tragic Flaw?
200
A non-literal extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
200
The turning point of the action: the moment of intensity that the rising action has created
What is Climax?
200
Struggle between two separate forces
What is External Conflict?
200
Careful selection and placement of words
What is Diction?
200
A comic scene that interrupts intensely dramatic moments
What is Comic relief?
300
Using like, as, or than to make a non-literal comparison
What is simile?
300
The action following the climax that moves the play to the resolution
What is falling action?
300
"First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, strong both against deed" MacBeth's struggle with the idea of killing Duncan.
What is Internal Conflict?
300
A character speaks quietly to him/herself while others are on stage
What is Aside?
300
[Thunder and lightning. Enter three Withces]
What is Stage directions?
400
Attaching human characteristics to non-human things
What is personification?
400
The sorting out or unraveling of the plot at the end of the play
What is Resolution?
400
The action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the falling action
What is Catastrophe?
400
a lengthy speech in a play delivered to characters or to the audience
What is Monologue?
400
A character that contrasts and parallels the main character
What is Foil?
500
the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in close proimity
What is Alliteration?
500
Hints to coming events
What is Foreshadowing?
500
Any action that causes an intensification of the conflict
What is Complication?
500
How writers reveal characters through speech, dress,manner, an actions
What is Characterization?
500
Physical movement of a character during a play
What is Gestures?