Dramatic Devices Flashcards
Aside
Short speech to audience or another character
Soliloquy
To advance plot only heard by audience to inform about state of mind
Pathos
Envoies pity or sadness
Allusion
A reference to another literary work
She was the eve of tomorrow
Imagery
Use of words to create an atmosphere and image in a reader.
Blood, darkness
Pathetic fallacy
A figure of speech to describe an inanimate thing
Prose
Written without a rhythm
Verse
Writing arranged with rythm
Sonnet
Short poem with 14 lines
Rythming couplet
A pair of successive lines that rhyme
Free verse
A poem that does not have rhythm rhyme or stanza patterns
Rhythm
The flow of words and lines of a poem
Iambic pentameter
A pattern with 10 syllables per line
Stanza
The pattern of lines that make a unit in a porm
Diction
Words the poet chooses to express menaing
Alliteration
Big brown bear
Hyperbole
I’m so hungry I could eat a hours
Malaprpiosm
I might just fade into Bolivian
Metaphor
Time is a theif
Simile
As blind as a bat
Onomatopoeia
Sizzle whoosh splash
Oxymoron
Old news, awfully good
Paradox
Less is more, be cruel to be kind
Personification
The wind whispered
Pun
A bicycle cannot stand on its own because it’s too tired
Understatement
Getting hit by a car might leave a mark.