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Lights, Camera, Action
Isn't It Ironic?
How Bad Can It Be?
Poetic Justice
100
A conversation between two or more people
What is dialogue?
100
An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself disregarding of people or hearers present
What is a soliloquy?
100
The use of words mot convey a meaning opposite of its intent
What is irony?
100
A serious disastrous event especially involving distress, loss or injury to life
What is a tragedy?
100
Written as verse to be spoken, also called poetic drama
What is verse drama?
200
Speaking and writing effectively
What is Rhetoric?
200
A group of persons singing in unison
What is a chorus?
200
Humorous word or phrases that suggest different meanings
What is a pun?
200
A detrimental characteristic in the protagonist that brings ruin or sorrow
What is a tragic flaw?
200
consists of fourteen lines, each line containing ten syllables and written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is repeated five times.
What is a Shakespearean or English sonnet
300
a composition written in prose or verse that can be presented in dialogue or pantomine
What is a drama?
300
A character speaks to the audience but is unheard by the characters in stage
What is an aside?
300
When the audience knows something that the characters are unaware of
What is dramatic irony?
300
The purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions
What is a catharsis?
300
poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
400
The ordinary language people use in speaking or writing
What is prose?
400
When actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended; the outcome is not what was expected
What is situational irony?
400
A great or virtuous character in a dramatic tragedy who is destined for downfall, suffering, or defeat
What is a tragic hero?
400
unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern
What is free verse?
500
A question being asked that already has an answer but does not need an answer
What is rhetorical question
500
When something is written or said that is the opposite of its literal meaning
What is verbal irony?
500
An excess of ambition, pride, etc, ultimately causing the transgressor's ruin
What is hubris?
500
A rhetorical device where the arrangement of the parts of a composition are of equal importance and are balanced in similar constructions; can be applied to words, phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, or complete units of compositions.
What is parallelism?