Final terms Flashcards
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Hyperbole
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An over exaggeration
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Hubris
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Excessive pride
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Paradox
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Seemingly self contradictory statement that in reality makes sense
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Thesis
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A proposition or statement that is made to be true
Subject of an essay
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Tragic flaw
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A fundamental character weakness such as excessive pride, ambition, or jealousy
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Protagonist
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Main character, not always good
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Antagonist
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Anyone who gets in the way of the protagonist
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Setting
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Time and place
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Theme
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The meaning or central ideas, deeper than subject
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Subject
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What something is about specifically, 1 word
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Genre
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Category
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Points of view
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1st person
2nd person- never used
3rd person limited
3rd person omniscient
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1st person
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Character in the story tells the story
Unreliable narrator
Bias!!
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3rd limited
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Follows 1 character and their thoughts, nothing else
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3rd omniscient
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All knowing, explains a lot, goes into past etc.
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Exposition
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Setting up of the story, background info
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Prose
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Anything that isn’t poetry, normal everyday language
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Allegory
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Story that has a deeper meaning
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Allusion
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A reference to something
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Plot
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Series of related events
Events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence
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Rising action
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Thickening of the plot
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Climax
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Top point, climax of the plot
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Denouement
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Settling of the plot, things are getting resolved, end of a story
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Static character
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Doesn’t change much throughout the story
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Dynamic character
Changes significantly throughout the story, different view on life
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Flat character
1 dimensional, lacks depth
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Round character
Multidimensional
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Direct character
Specific facts, author directly gives characteristics, straight up
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Indirect character
When a characters personality is shown throughout speech and actions
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Irony
A reversal of expectations
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Dramatic irony
When we know something that the characters don't know
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Verbal irony
When you say one thing but you mean the opposite of what you say
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Sarcasm
Insincere tone
| You can be sarcastic without being ironic
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Pun
A play on words
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Foreshadowing
Hinting at what's to come
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Didactic
When the author is being very latent about the message that they are trying to get across
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Epiphany
Absolute change that redirects course of life
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What was a place where people gathered to sing
Amphitheater
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Who invented 3-4 characters
Sophocles
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Man from Greece, has a definition of tragedy, must be pity and fear
Aristotle
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Who invented 2 actors?
Aeschylus
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Who started modern theatre?
Thespis
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What 2 things did Thespis do
Turned hymns into songs that were stories
| Invented actors
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Dionysus
God of wine and fertility
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Type of tragedy defined by Aristotle
Aristotelian
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To arouse pity and fear in the audience
Tragedy
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Greek word meaning emotional purging
Catharsis
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Aristotle's book about the philosophical literary theories
The poetics
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Excessive pride
Hubris
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A fundamental character weakness
Tragic flaw
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First story in the trilogy about Oedipus earlier life
Oedipus Rex
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Second book in the trilogy, probably about his later life
Oedipus at colonus
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Main character in Antigone, kills herself
Antigone
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Place with an oracle that gives fate of Oedipus
Delphi
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Animal with body of lion and human head that gave a riddle to Oedipus but killed herself after he got it right
Sphinx
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Group of singers
Chorus
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Situational irony
Ex Fire fighters house burning down
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Socratic irony
Playing dumb
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When we know something the characters don't
Dramatic irony
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Necessities for an Aristotelian tragedy
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Tragic figure is highly renowned and prosperous
Has a tragic flaw
Hero is responsible for own downfall
Comes to recognize his error
Accepts tragic consequences
Is humbled
Enlightened
Punishment exeeds the crime
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Tone
Attitude toward the subject
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Symbol
Anything that represents something greater than itself
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Thames
River running through London
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Alliteration
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
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Assonance
in poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible (e.g., penitence, reticence ).
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Cliche
a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought.
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Conceit
excessive pride in oneself.
| a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor.
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Enjambment
At the end of a line of a poem or sonnet, you continue reading through unless there is punctuation
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Explication
to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
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Extended metaphor
a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem
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Figurative language
Similes, metaphors, personification, etc
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Foil
In fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
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Free verse
poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
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Half rhyme
Something that Shakespeare does, close to a rhyme but not exact
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Image/imagery
figurative description or illustration
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Implied/indirect metaphor
a word or phrase that compares two unlike things to more clearly describe them, without mentioning one of the things
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Metaphor
A comparison using like or as
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Meter
A pattern of rhythm
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Onomotopoeia
the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
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Persona
a social role or a character played by an actor.
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Personification
the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
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Rhyme
correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
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Rhythm
Alternating stressed and spun stressed syllables, no specific order necessary
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Simile
A comparison that uses like or as
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Stanza
an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
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Stress
give particular emphasis or importance to (a point, statement, or idea) made in speech or writing.
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Verisimilitude
the appearance of being true or real.
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Vignette
a brief evocative description, account, or episode.
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The rose
One of Shakespeare's theaters, built in 1587 by Philip henslowe
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The plague
A deadly disease spread around the time of William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist
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Oedipus
Killed his father, married his mother
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Chorogus
The leader of the chorus
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Teiresias
Blind prophet if Apollo
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Thebes
An ancient city in Greece
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Antigone (play)
Tragedy written by Sophocles
