Dramatic Speeches
A short remark spoken to the audience but not heard by the other characters.
What is an aside
What is an Oxymoron?
What is a self-contradictory word or group of words.
The first 12 lines of a sonnet states and builds what?
What is conflict
What kind of irony is a contradiction between what characters think and what the audience knows to be true.
What is dramatic irony?
What are the three phrases called?
Pathos
Logos
Ethos
Which is this?
In a play set on a distant planet in the future, several characters are on stage. One of them, Arun, delivers a lengthy speech in which he tells the others about his planned expedition to a planet 10 light-years away and asks or volunteers to travel with him.
What is a Monologue
What other word goes with "bitter" to make an oxymoron
What is sweet
The couplet, or two lines at the end of a sonnet conclude or resolve
What is conflict
A play on words where a character says something but means something else
When the writer is appealing to the logic of the audience
What is logos
A conversation between or among characters
What word goes with "same" to make an oxymoron?
What is difference
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Where something happens that seems unlikely or extremely awkward
What is situational irony
When the writer/speaker is appealing to the audiences emotions
What is a monologue
What word goes with "crash" to make an oxymoron?
What is landing
How many lines does a sonnet have?
What is 14
It's raining outside and it's windy. Someone says, "great weather."
What kind of irony is this?
What is verbal irony
What rhetorical device is this excerpt from MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice
What is Ethos
a long speech in which a character, usually alone on stage reveals his or her true thoughts or feelings
What is a soliloquy
What word goes with "virtual" to create a oxymoron?
What is reality
What is the purpose of a sonnet?
What is to explore a single theme or idea, often love or beauty, through a structured form with a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm, culminating in a final thought or resolution.
In the play of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet had drunk the potion and the nurse came to wake her up for the wedding to Paris. The nurse discovered she was "dead" and the family came in and was upset.
What kind of irony was this?
What is dramatic irony
What rhetorical device is this quote from "A Letter from a Birmingham Jail" an example of?
"Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of negro homes and churches in Birmingham than any other city in the nation.”
What is pathos