| genre | type of literature |
| fiction | not true |
| drama | 1. a story 2. told in action 3. by actors who impersonate the characters of a story' Professor J.M. Manly saw these elements |
| comedy | the protagonist has an objective and achieves that objective |
| history | drama based on historical facts or dealings with past events |
| farce | drama/comedy with ridicules/absurd characters or situations |
| poetry/verse | literary expression that has meter and rhyme |
| prose | literary expression that is not marked by regular rhyme or meter [not poetry] |
| dialogue | conversation between 2 or more people |
| monologue | a composition, oral or written, presenting the discourse of one speaker only; by convention, others are present, but do not speak |
| soliloquy | a speech of a character in a play or other composition delivered while the speaker is alone [solus] and calculated ot inform the audience or reader of what is passing in their mind |
| protagonist | main character who drives the action |
| objective | something you want to achieve |
| motive | what drives the character to reach/obtain their goal/objective |
| justification | the reason or why you do something |
| antagonist | a character who opposes or blocks the protagonist and/or action |
| type | a kind, class, or group characterized by commonalities |
| stereotype | a geralization on a group of people based on limited information; smaller than a type |
| archetype | the original type from which others are patterned to; a prototype |
| foil | a character who is used to contrast another character |
| action | the main events that move a play along |
| activity | the small tasks that a character does |
| stage directions | directions taht tell actors what to do on-stage |
| aside | words spoken by a character in a ply to the audience/another character that are not heard by other characters on-stage |
| allusion | a reference to a person, place, thing, event, or statement well known in the past |
| diction | word choice |
| connotation | the implication of a word |
| denotation | dictionary definition of a word |
| pun | a play on words or multiple meanings on words; or 2 words that sound alike and have different meanings |
| symbol | a person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself & for something beyond it |
| metaphor | a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is something else/becoming another thing without the words like, as, or resemble |
| mood | the general, overall feeling; atmosphere, the feeling created in the reader |
| iambic pentameter | line of poetry that contains 3 iams [units which consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in the word, arise] |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| sonnet | 14 lines, rhyming iambic pentameter--10 syllables per line |
| sonnet rhyme sceme | ABAB[quatraine]; CDCD[quatraine]; EFEF[quatraine]; GG[couplet]; the first three are quatraines |
| juxtaposition | putting things side by side & contrasting them |