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Aside a piece of dialogie for the audience and supposedly not heard by teh other actors on stage
soliloquy a long speech made by a character to themselves revealing inner thoughts
blank verse verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually iambic pentameter
couplet a stanza of two consisting of an unryhmed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing a unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
rhyme A word that agrees with another in terminal sound
metaphor a comparison of two unlike things
Simile a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
Imagery The ability to form mental images of things or events
symbolism Something that stands or represents something else
comic relief relief from tension in a play often humorous
antagonist a person who opposed to, struggles against, or completes with another opponent
Protagonist the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work
Universal appeal Something that has a wide appeal to a large number of people
Irony An outcome of events contrary to what was or might have been expected
Tragedy an event resulting in great loss an misfortune
Climax the highest or most intense point in developement or resolution of something
catastrophe a sudden and wide spread disaster
equivocation a statement that is not literary false but that clearly avoids an unpleasant truth; misleading
Paradox a self-contradictory statement that expresses a possible truth
tragic hero a literary character who makes an error of judgement or has a fatal flaw that combined with fate and external forces brings on a tragedy
alliteration repition of the same sound or the same kind of sound
assonance the repition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
theme central idea of story
setting Time, place and circumstance or anything
prophesy to fortell or predict
meter poetic measure; arrangement of words in regularly measured, patterened or rhythmic lines or verse
personification a figure of speech in which inanimate onjects are endowed with human qualities
consonance repition of sounds
foreshadowing providing hints of something to come
ambivalence having positive or negative feelings toward someone

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Creator hawam
Created March 10, 2008
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hawam : Changed theme → a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition to theme → central idea of story
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  1. alliteration → repition of the same sound or the same kind of sound - 3 misses
  2. prophesy → to fortell or predict - 3 misses
  3. equivocation → a statement that is not literary false but that clearly avoids an unpleasant truth; misleading - 2 misses
  4. couplet → a stanza of two consisting of an unryhmed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing a unaccented syllable and an accented syllable - 1 miss
  5. rhyme → A word that agrees with another in terminal sound - 1 miss
  6. metaphor → a comparison of two unlike things - 1 miss
  7. Imagery → The ability to form mental images of things or events - 1 miss