Tues Flashcards

(29 cards)

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Farce

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Literary work characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slap stick or other physical humor

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Feminine ending

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A line of verse having an unstressed verse

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Figures of speech

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Any word or phrase that create a “figure” in the mind of the reader by effecting an obvious change in the usual meaning or order of words

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Flashback

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Plot structuring device whereby a scene from the fictional past is inserted into the fictional present

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Foil

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Character that serves as a contrast to another

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Foreshadowing

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Hint or clue about what will happen at a later moment in the plot

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Formal diction

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Speech that is impersonal and dignified

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Formula fiction

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Type of fiction where multiple books or fictional worlds share many common elements, to the point of being predictable

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Free verse

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Poetry characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non rhyming lines

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Genre

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A type of category of works sharing particular formal or textual features

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Haiku

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Poetic form that consists of 17 syllables arranged in 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 8 syllables respectively

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Heroic couplet

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Consisting of 2 rhyming lines in iambic pentameter

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History play

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Drama with a theme from history consisting loosely connected episodes chronologically arranged

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Hubris

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Extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that brings about his downfall

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Hyperbole

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Exaggerated language to highlight a significance

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Iambic meter

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Metrical form in ehich each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one

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In medias res

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Story that starts in the mist of action

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Irony

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Situation or statement that is completely different that was was expected

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Jargon

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Use of specific phrases or words by writers in a particular situation

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Limerick

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Humorous verse form consisting of mainly anapestic lines

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Lyric

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Originally a poem meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a Lyne

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Melodrama

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Drama in a play that has exaggerated meaning

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Meter

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The none or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Miracle play

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Medieval drama from dealing with religious subjects such as biblical stones or saint’s lives

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Naive character
Character within a story whose voice is used to check a sense of ironic observation through their own inexperience or innocence
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Naturalism
A manner or technique of threating subject matter they presents through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human nature
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Objective point of view
The writers tells what is happening with out stating more than can be inferred from the story's action and dialogue
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Octave
Eight lines of verse lined by a pattern of end rhymes, especially the first eight lines of an Italian
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Falling action
The 4th of the 5 plots in which the conflict moves toward the resolution