| Term | Definition |
|---|
| sonnet | fourteen line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter |
| Elizabethan/Shakespearean sonnet | three quartains and one couplet. abab cdcd efef gg |
| Petrachan/Italian sonnet | one octave and one sestet. abbaabba cdecde |
| rhetoric | persuasive speaking |
| cosmic irony | nothing goes right. The gods are against you |
| dramatic irony | a contradiction in what the character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true |
| situational irony | event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the character, reader, and audience |
| verbal irony | words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant |
| irony | general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, expectation and result, or meaning and intention. |
| catharsis | a cleansing in the audience of a feeling of pity or fear |
| foil | a character who provides a contrast to another character |
| iambic pentameter | the feet are unstressed stressed and the line contains five feet |
| pentameter | verse written in five foot lines |
| iambic | a foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines |
| aside | a short speech delivered by an actor in a play, which expresses the character's thoughts. Inaudible to the other actors |
| soliloquy | long speech expressing thoughs of a character alone on stage |
| monologue | a speech by one character in a play, story, or poem. May be addressed to another character, to the audience, or no one. |
| ethos | appeals to character of speaker |
| pathos | appeals to emotion |
| logos | appeals to logic |
| anachronism | something outside its time |
| motivation | a reason that explains or partially explains a character's thoughts or actions |
| climax | high point of interest or suspense |
| Freytag's pyramid | rising action, climax, falling action |
| tragic flaw | a flaw of the hero that will result in their downfall |
| tragic hero | main character, usually a significant figure, who has a tragic flaw that will cause thier downfall |
| melodrama | overdone drama |
| farce | overdone comedy |
| tragicomedy | begins unhappily and ends happily |
| comedy | happy feel good funny |
| tragedy | ends tragically |
| drama | story written to be performed by actors |
| literary convention | unrealistic literary technique that the audience agrees to accept (soliloquy, flashback, aside) |
| false analogy | a comparison not accurate and will lead to false conclusion |
| script | a specific dialogue |
| analogy | a comparison of two things |
| caesura | ??? (if anyone knows...put it on the discussion, plz!) |
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