Shakespeare: Julius Cesure Flashcards
(23 cards)
Couplet
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Drama
A story written to be acted for an audience
Dynamic Character
A character who changes as a result of the story’s events
Oxymoron
A combination of contradictory terms. Ex. Jumbo Shrimp
Blank Verse
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, each line of poetry contains 5 iambs or metrical feet that consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Aside
Words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the other characters on stage.
Pun
A play on multiple meaning of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings
Proes
Direct adorned form of language written or spoken in ordinary use
Courus
A group that says things at the same time
Anachronism
An event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period
Comic relief
Humor added that lessens that seriousness of the plot
Static Character
A character that does not change in the course of the story
Foil Character
A character that will by contrast help to accentuate another character’s opposite personality.
Soliloquy
An excessively long speech by a character that is shared only with the audience aloud, and no other character on stage.
Tragic reader
A literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction.
Monologue
An extended speech by a character either while the other characters listen or while the character is a lone
Tragic flaw
A personality trait of a main character that leads to his/her downfall. tragic hero, a main character who suffers a downfall from a tragic flaw.
Sonnet
A poem consisting of fourteen lines, written with a specific rhyme scheme and structure. In ayantice pentameter
Tragedy
Work of literature, especially a play, which results in a catastrophe/death for the main character.
Hubris
Excessive Flaw
Verbal irony
A writer or a reader who says one thing but really means something completely different
Dramatic Irony
The audience or reader knows something that a character does not.
Prolog
A short introduction at the beginning of the play that gives a brief overview of the plot
