Exam Review Flashcards
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Iambic pentameter
Line of poetry that contains 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables
Aside
A characters dialogue is spoken but not heard by other actors
Soliloquy
Speech In which a character is alone on stage and expresses thoughts out loud
Allusion
Moment when author makes a reference to another work of literature
Blank verse
Unrhymed poetry or dramatic verse written in a meter known as iambic pentameter
Comic relief
Humerous scene, an event,or a speech in an otherwise serious work. (Provides relief from emotional intensity)
Free verse
Poetry has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, of stanza arrangement
Meter
Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a line of poetry a predictable rhythm
Pun
A humerous play on word, usually involve words that are similar in sound
Rhyme
Repitition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words.
Rhyme scheme
Pattern that ends rhyme form in a stanza or a poem
Tradegy
A plan in which the main character usually dies w
Tragic hero
Suffers a down fall by human errors or forces beyond human control, such as fate
Climax
The point of greatest emotional intensity interest, or suspense in the plot of a literary work
Heroic couplet
Traditional form of English poetry, commonly used in epics and narrative poetry
Applying poetic devices
Metaphor, simile, imagery, personification, rhyme, meter, alliteration, symbol, tone, allusion, oxymoron, mood
Alliteration
Religion of consonant sounds, generally at he beginning of words
Assonance
The Repitition of same or similar vowel sounds
Haiku
Traditional Japanese form of poetry that has 3 lines and 17 syllables
Imagery
Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the 5 Senses
Internal rhyme
Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry
