| Term | Definition |
|---|
| alliteration | two or more words in a sentence with the same beginning sound |
| aside | a dramatic convention which allows a character to direct a comment to the audience or to another character |
| characterization | a portrayal of a character, by 1. what he says 2.does 3.by what other characters say 4. how the other characters react |
| conflict | man vs. man, woman vs. shoes, man vs. cheese monster |
| couplet | 2 rhyming lines consectivly in a poem |
| Dramatic irony! | a situation when words, actions of the character have meaning unpercieved by the character but understood by the audience |
| end stopped line | a line of poetry which has an end punctuation mark at the end of the line; this calls for a pause |
| run on line | a line that continues the thought or sentence into the next line and has either no punctuation at its end or a comma at its end |
| exposition | the beginning of a play or act explaining how it all began |
| foil | a character with opposite traits , beliefs, or physical traits from another major character |
| foreshadowing | clues to the future of the piece of literature |
| iamb | a word containing a unaccented syllable and an accented syllable |
| oxymoron | two words or things contradicting |
| paradox | a statement which on the surface seems different, yet can be interrupted figuratively |
| personification | describing something, having human like characteristics |
| prologue | information at the beginning of a play which gives information about what will be happening |
| pun | a clever play on words |
| metaphor | a comparing two things that are usually not compared using "is" |
| simile | using like or as comparing two likely things that are obvious or inconspicuous |
| soliloquy | a dramatic convention which lines are said not specifically to a person |
| allusion | a reference to a previous piece of literature or historic event, person, item |
| onomatopoeia | a word that imitates a sound |
| denotation | the dictionary definition of the word |
| connotation | the feeling , positive or negative thats associated with the word |
| hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| assonance | the similarity of two or more vowel sounds or repetition of two or more consonant sounds especially in words that are close together in a poem |
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