Vocabulary

Question 0

Ambiguity

Answer 0

More than one possible meaning from language with the capacity to function on literal and non literal levels.

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repetition of sounds through a sequence of words. (e.g. Crazy kangaroo, loud house)

Question 2

Anaphora

Answer 2

Repetition of the same word(s) at the beginning of a line, clause or sentence.

Question 3

Auditor

Answer 3

Implied listener.

Question 4

Dramatic poetry

Answer 4

Must have an auditor

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

Exaggerated language

Question 6

Iambic

Answer 6

Metrical form of poetry reading like sheet music.

Question 7

Inciting incident

Answer 7

An action that sets plot into motion

Question 8

Irony

Answer 8

Characterized by a significant difference between what is expected and what actually happens.

Question 9

Verbal irony

Answer 9

Occurs when a word in context means something different from what it appears to mean. Sarcasm

Question 10

Situational irony

Answer 10

Occurs when something happens to a character that they did not expect to happen.

Question 11

Dramatic irony

Answer 11

When the audience knows something the character does not know.

Question 12

Lyric poetry

Answer 12

A cohesive meditation in an idea.

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

Two unlike things are compared without using like or as

Question 14

Meter

Answer 14

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

Question 15

Mood

Answer 15

The way the reader feels when reading

Question 16

Motif

Answer 16

A recurrent device, formula or situation.

Question 17

Narrative poetry

Answer 17

Tells a story

Question 18

Onomatopoeia

Answer 18

The sound of the word suggest the meaning. Bang honk.

Question 19

Pentameter

Answer 19

Line of poetry with five feet

Question 20

Persona

Answer 20

The speaker in a poem.

Question 21

Prose

Answer 21

Sentences and paragraph form

Question 22

Prose poem

Answer 22

Poem in prose form but still had poetic qualities.

Question 23

Simile

Answer 23

An explicit comparison of two things using like or as.

Question 24

Sonnet

Answer 24

14 lines of iambic pentameter. 3 quatrains and a couplet. Usually discussing unrequited love.

Question 25

Theme

Answer 25

A topic explored in a literary work. NOT THE MAIN IDEA.

Question 26

Tone

Answer 26

Writers attitude towards material or reader.

Question 27

Antihero

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A protagonist that does not posses normal heroic characteristics.

Question 28

Antagonist

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A character or nonhuman force that is in conflict with the protagonist.

Question 29

Blank verse

Answer 29

Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

Question 30

Character

Answer 30

An imaginary personage who acts, appears, or is referred to in a literary work.

Question 31

Main character

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Receive most attention

Question 32

Minor characters

Answer 32

Receive least attention

Question 33

Flat character

Answer 33

Simple, predictable, few dominant traits.

Question 34

Round character

Answer 34

Complex multifaceted and unpredictable.

Question 35

Static character

Answer 35

Do not change over story.

Question 36

Dynamic character

Answer 36

Change over story

Question 37

Comedy

Answer 37

The protagonist gets what he/she wants.

Question 38

Foil character

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A character that serves by contrast to highlight traits in another character.

Question 39

Plot

Answer 39

The arrangement of the action

Question 40

Exposition

Answer 40

Phase 1. Sets the scene introduces characters and establishes situation of play.

Question 41

Rising action

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Phase 2. Events complicate. Intensifying initial conflict or introducing new conflict.

Question 42

Climax

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Phase 3. Action stops rising and begins falling.

Question 43

Falling action

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Phase 4. Conflict mows towards resolution.

Question 44

Conclusion.

Answer 44

Phase 5. Situation stabs loses and conflict is resolved.

Question 45

Denouement

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Any action that follows conclusion and ties up loose ends.

Question 46

Protagonist

Answer 46

Main character in literary work

Question 47

Soliloquy

Answer 47

A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience. Represents the character thinking out loud.

Question 48

Tragedy

Answer 48

Protagonist does not get what he/she wants.

Question 49

Character identification

Answer 49

What play they are in. Who they are. What they do.