12.2 quiz Flashcards
stage direction in a play manuscript for music introducing the entrance or exit of a king or another important person.
Flourish
device in which a writer describes significant events of an earlier time or actually returns the plot to an earlier time.
Flashback
a secondary or minor character in a literary work who contrasts or clashes with the main character
Foil
sheet of printing paper folded once to form four separate pages for printing a book
Folio
stories,songs, and sayings transmitted by memory rather than by books or other printed documents, from one generation to the next.
Folklore
in the courts of England in Shakespeare’s time, a comic figure with a quick tongue who entertained the king.
Fool
device a writer uses to hint at a future course of action
Foreshadowing
story with a plot structure in which an author uses two or more narrators to present the action.
Frame Tale
the original manuscript of a playwright which was later edited
Foul Papers
form of poetry that ignores standard rules of meter in favor of the rhythms of ordinary conversation
Free Verse
excessive boasting or bragging
Gasconade
type or kind, as applied to literature and film.
Genre
Anglo-Saxon minstrel who sang or recited poetry.
Gleeman
adjective describing writing that contains wise,witty sayings
Gnomic
wandering student of medieval Europe who made merry and wrote earthy or satiric verses in Latin
Goliard
