Dramatic Devices Flashcards

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Aside

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Short speech to audience or another character

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Soliloquy

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To advance plot only heard by audience to inform about state of mind

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Pathos

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Envoies pity or sadness

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Allusion

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A reference to another literary work
She was the eve of tomorrow

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Imagery

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Use of words to create an atmosphere and image in a reader.
Blood, darkness

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Pathetic fallacy

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A figure of speech to describe an inanimate thing

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Prose

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Written without a rhythm

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Verse

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Writing arranged with rythm

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Sonnet

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Short poem with 14 lines

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Rythming couplet

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A pair of successive lines that rhyme

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Free verse

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A poem that does not have rhythm rhyme or stanza patterns

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Rhythm

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The flow of words and lines of a poem

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Iambic pentameter

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A pattern with 10 syllables per line

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14
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Stanza

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The pattern of lines that make a unit in a porm

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15
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Diction

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Words the poet chooses to express menaing

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16
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Alliteration

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Big brown bear

17
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Hyperbole

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I’m so hungry I could eat a hours

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Malaprpiosm

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I might just fade into Bolivian

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Metaphor

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Time is a theif

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Simile

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As blind as a bat

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Onomatopoeia

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Sizzle whoosh splash

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Oxymoron

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Old news, awfully good

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Paradox

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Less is more, be cruel to be kind

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Personification

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The wind whispered

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Pun

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A bicycle cannot stand on its own because it’s too tired

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Understatement

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Getting hit by a car might leave a mark.