ENG 101- Terminology

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Alliteration

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The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line. Alliteration need not reuse all initial consonants; “pizza” and “place” alliterate.

Question 2

Allusion

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A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement. (often from the Bible)

Question 3

Anaphora

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Often used in political speeches and occasionally in prose and poetry, anaphora is the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to create a sonic effect. EG. The repetition of “I have a dream” in Martin Luther King Jr’s speech

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants. Sometimes called vowel rhyme.
“between trees” “great flakes” “leaping deep”

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Concrete poetry

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poetry in which the poet’s intent is conveyed by graphic patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the meaning of words in conventional arrangement.

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Consonance

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A similarity in sound between 2 words, or an initial rhyme. Consonance can also refer to to shared consonants when in sequence “bed and bad” or inversed “bud and dab”

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End-stop

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Ends at grammatical boundary or break such as dash or closing perenthesis- or with punctuation such as a colon, semicolon, period, or completion of a phrase.

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Endjambment

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running-over of a sentence/phrase from one poetic line to the next, w/o terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stop

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Free-Verse

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Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or rhythm may emerge in free-verse lines, but the poet does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition.

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Lyric Poem

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feelings or meditations of a single person.
fairly short poem expressing the mood, feelings, or characteristics of a person.

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Metaphor

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A comparison that is made directly without pointing out a similarity by using words such as “like,” “as,” or “than.”

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Onomatopoeia

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A figure of speech in which a word imitates its sound. “choo-choo” buzz”

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Personification

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A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.

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Rhyme

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The repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line. Rhymed words conventionally share all sounds following the word’s last stressed syllable.

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End rhyme vs. Internal rhyme

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End rhyme is at the end of a poetic line, and internal rhyme is harder to spot within the line.

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Perfect rhyme

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Cat, hat, bat

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Near/Slant-rhyme

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close enough. like son/song

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Eye-rhyme

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Through/rough

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simile

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A comparison (see Metaphor) made with “as,” “like,” or “than.”

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Action Text

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Physical language of the play

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Character

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A person in a play; also refers to their characteristics, personality, motives, and actions

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Classical unities

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unity of action (the plot must be unified so that every scene contributes to it), unity of place (setting should be in a single location), and unity of time (all happen in one day).

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Climax

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A moment of great intensity in the play- the crucial moment where the various threads of the plot come together

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Comedy

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Conflict

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When characters are in tension with one another- there are at least three in SOMEDAY

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Denouement/Falling Action

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Brief period following a plays climax where the drama reaches toward the conclusion

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Dialogue

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the verbal exchange between characteristics- because there is no narrator in the play the dialogue must tell the whole story

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Dynamic character

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a character who undergoes some important change in the course of the story. usually main characters with more lines

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Exposition

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an explanation of what's happened before the play starts

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Static character

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A static character is one who doesn't undergo any significant change in a story, whereas a flat character is a one-dimensional character who isn't layered or deep—rather, a flat character just has one or two traits that make up their whole personality.

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Monologue

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a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.

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Movement

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The physical movement of characters on stage

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Performance

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That specific group, that specific night

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A play

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A play is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between characters and intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. THE WIRTTEN PART

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Plot

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the structure of interrelated actions, consciously selected and arranged by the author.

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Production

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A theatrical production is any work of theatre, such as a staged play, musical, comedy or drama produced from a written book or script. (everything that comes from the script. a group of people brining it to life)

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Rising action

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builds towards the climax

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Setting

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refers to both the time and place of the play, as well as the scenery put on stage

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Spoken text

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things said aloud by characters in the story. the spoken language in use

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Stock character

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stereotypical character used frequently in literature eg. "the mad scientist" and "the jock"

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subtext

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the implicit meaning of a text—the underlying message that is not explicitly stated or shown. Subtext gives the reader information about characters, plot, and the story's context as a whole

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suspense

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an uneasy feeling that a reader gets when they don't know what is going to happen next.

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Theme

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plays message, central concerns, and what the play is about

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Tragicomedey

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Tragicomedy is a literary device used in fictional works. It contains both tragedy and comedy. Mostly, the characters in tragicomedy are exaggerated, and sometimes there might be a happy ending after a series of unfortunate events. It is incorporated with jokes throughout the story, just to lighten the tone.

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Tragedy

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branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual.

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Acting

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the performance of the actors in the film

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Cinematography

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how the camera person sets up the shot (including framing, angle, and movement)

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Diegesis

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“The imagined world of the story”

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Non-diegetic or extradiegetic

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“A term used for any narrative, sound, or visual element not contained in the story world.”

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Editing

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elements added to the film after shooting including arranging shots (montages and sequences), cuts, sound, and visual effects (now including digital effects)

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Mise-en-Scène

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everything the director puts into the scene (including lighting, décor, acting, costuming, sets)

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Motif

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Any narrative, visual, or sound element that is repeated and thereby acquires and reflects its significance to the story, characters, or themes of the film.

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Narrative

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the story the film is telling; its plot (what is told but also how)

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Visuals

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the filmic images captured by the camera

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Sound

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any aural components that a film might have including dialogue, sound effects, musical score, and silence the sounds captured by microphones and spliced onto film

Question 56

What are the dimensions of film

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Visuals and sound