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Term Definition
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

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Created December 8, 2007
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sanamtabatabai : doesn't iambic pentameters have 5 iambs... not.. 3?
sanamtabatabai : and she taught ur class sonnet rhyme sceme and juxtaposition???
sanamtabatabai : by class i meant period.
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  1. sonnet rhyme sceme → ABAB[quatraine]; CDCD[quatraine]; EFEF[quatraine]; GG[couplet]; the first three are quatraines - 4 misses
  2. prose → literary expression that is not marked by regular rhyme or meter [not poetry] - 3 misses
  3. justification → the reason or why you do something - 3 misses
  4. protagonist → main character who drives the action - 2 misses
  5. metaphor → a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is something else/becoming another thing without the words like, as, or resemble - 2 misses
  6. farce → drama/comedy with ridicules/absurd characters or situations - 1 miss
  7. 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 - 1 miss