Poetry Exam
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Deus Ex Machina | Coincidence or improbable events are used to solve the problem in the story |
| Foreshadowing | Clues that warn the reader of what is to come |
| Providence | God (fate) is always in control |
| Juxtaposition | Two opposite contrasting images for effect |
| Aside | Actor speaks to the audience without the other characters hearing |
| Soliloquy | The Actor reveals his thoughts to the character in a monologue |
| Prologue | Chorus comments on events in a detached manner |
| Allegory | Story or visual image with a distinct meaning particularly hidden |
| Ode | A tribute to someone or something |
| Choler Humour | Anger |
| Pun | A play on words using homonyms as synonyms |
| Static Character | Remains the same from beginning to end |
| Double entendre | Speech that can be understood in 2 ways |
| Irony | Something different then what the reader expects |
| Dynamic Character | Undergoes a change over the corse of the story |
| Theme | What the author is trying to teach through the main characters |
| Omniscient Narrator | Can enter the minds of all characters |
| Satire | Form of writing that criticizes institutions |
| Caricature | A distorted pictorial drawing that represents a political situation |
| Tragic Flaw | The quality of the characters personality that is responsible for his/her downfall |
| Oxymoron | A pair of contrasting terms in a single expression examples jumbo shrimp |
| Exposition | The circumstances at the beginning of the story |
| Antecedent Action | Occurs before the story begins |
| Melancholy humour | Sadness |
| Conflict | Examples include Love vs. Hate or Youth vs. Age |
| First Person Narrator | A participant in the story, told from a characters point of view |
| Allusion | Indirect or passing reference to some person, place or event |
| Rhyming Couplet | Many of Shakespeare's scenes end this way |
| Personification | The giving of human characteristics to an object or abstract ideas |
| Hyperbole | Over exaggeration, "I could eat a horse!" |
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