Final 9 Flashcards
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What year was shakespeare born
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1564
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What year did shakespeare die
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1616
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What period did shakespeare live in
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During the Renaissance, during the Elizabethan era
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Shakespeare was often referred to as
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“The spirit of an age” or “the soul of an age”
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Who was Shakespeare wife?
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Anne Hathaway, 8 years older
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Where did Shakespeare get his ideas from?
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Myths and classic literature
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Is believed to be responsible for contributing to Shakespeare’s legacy by compiling all his works into one folio after his death
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Ben Johnson
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Where was the Globe Theater located
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Southwark, on the south bank of the Thames
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What was the globe theaters nickname
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Wooden O
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Was the structure behind the stage which held dressing rooms and storage areas
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Tiring-House
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Females parts were played by
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Men and young boys
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Performances had to be held when
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During the day because they had no electricity
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Plays were divided into how many categories
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3: comedies, tragedies, and histories
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White globe theater flags were used to advertise the play performed that day. Using white indicated that they play would be a light subject
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Comedies
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Black globe theater flags were used to advertise the play performed that day. Using black flag indicated that they play would be a dark subject, associated with death
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Tragedies
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Red globe theater flags were used to advertise that the play performed the day. Using the red flag indicated that the play would be a subject, associated with blood, as most plats bases on this subject were
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History
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Romeo and Juliet Setting
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13c Verona, Italy
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Neutral, threatens Montague and Capulet with death if they ever fought again
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Prince Esalus
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Neutral. Wants to marry juliet
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Paris
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16 year old. In the beginning is in love with Rosaline
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Romeo
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Parents of Romeo
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Lord and Lady Montague
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Not an important character. Does not return Romeo’s love. Wants to become a nun. Is a capulet
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Rosaline
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Romeo’s bff. Related to Prince Esalus
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Mercutio
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Romeo’s cousin/bff
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Benvolio
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Servant to Montague
Abraham
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Younger and servant go romeo
Bathlsar
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13 years old
Juliet
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Parents of Juliet
Lord and Lady Capulet
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Opposite of Benvolio (fiery, temper, mean) Juliet's cousin
Tybalt
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Nanny, Juliet's confidant, breast feed Juliet. Only one that knows that Juliet and romeo got married
Nurse
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Servants to Capulet. Start the fight in the beginning of the play
Sampson and Gregory
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Nurse's servant
Peter
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What are the elements of a shakespearen tragedy?
Exposition, exciting force, rising action, climax, falling action, catastrophe
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Exposition: prologue through act 1 scene 3
Street brawl, introduction of Romeo and Juliet
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Exciting force: act 1 scene 4
Romeo's decision to attend the masked ball at the Capulet household
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Describes the mood and conditions that exist at the beginning of the play
Exposition
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Sometime called the complication or initial incident. It gets things going; begins with conflict which will continue in the play
Exciting force
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The series of events that lead to the climax
Rising action
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Rising action: act 1 scene 5- act 3 scene 1
Romeo and Juliet meeting at the ball, romeo meeting Juliet in the orchard, Romeo's meeting with the nurse, Romeo's meeting with friar Laurence, Juliet's discussion with nurse, friar Laurence performing the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, and the death of Mercutio and Tybalt
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Represents the turning point of the play. From this point on, the ehakespearean hero moves to his inevitable end
Climax
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Climax: act 3 scene 1
Romeo banishment
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Includes those events occurring from the time of climax up to the hero's death
Falling action
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Falling action: act 3 scene 2-act 4 scene 2
Juliet learning of Tybalts death, Romeo's predicament, Capulet's decision for Juliet to marry paris, parting of Romeo and Juliet, friar Laurence's plan, and Juliet agreeing to marry paris, taking the potion and apparent death, and Romeo's misinformation, buying the poison, returning to juliet's tomb, and the explanation of cause of Romeo's misinformation
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(Greek: exodus) (french: denouement) concerns the necessary consequences of the hero's previous actions which must be the hero's death
Catastrophe
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Catastrophe: act 5 scene 3
Death of Romeo and Juliet
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A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate to society, to downfall or destruction
Tragedy
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The purging emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through a certain kind of arts, as traders or music
Catharsis
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Something that introduces, usually unexpectedly, some difficulty, problem, change
Complication
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A passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication
Allusion
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A part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by the others on stage and intended only for audience
Aside
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A group of actors or a single actor having a function similar. The part of play performed by such a group or single
Chorus
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A play, movie, etc, of a light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending
Comedy
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The outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences
Denouement
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A similarity between like feature of two things, on which a comparison may be based
Analogy
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A short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature
Anecdote
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Refers to any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret, and/or analyze
Literary Devices
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Are those terms used to identify the many different aspects of literature, which we can recognize, identify, interpret, and/or analyze
Literary Terms
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The opposing force to the main character
Antagonist
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Is the method used by a writer to develop a character. The method includes (1) showing the character's appearance, (2) displaying the character's action, (3) revealing the character's thoughts, (4) letting the character speak, and (5) getting the reactions of others
Characters/characterization
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A struggle between two opposing forces, or characters in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem. Can be internal or external
Conflict
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Indirect meaning (a different tone behind the word)
Connotation
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The literal or dictionary meaning of a word or phrase
Denotation
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Any use of language where the intended meaning differs from the actual literal meaning of the words themselves
Figurative language
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A narrative technique that allows a writer to present past events during current events, in order to provide background for the current narration
Flashback
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A minor character who only has one or two characteristics. You don't know much about them
Flat character
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Main character. Have many characteristics. Almost real
Round character
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A literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop
Static Character
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A literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a changer in personality or attitude
Dynamic Character
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A character who serves as a contrast to another perhaps more primary character, so as to point out specific traits of the primary character
Foil Character
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The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is released by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets
Direct Characterization
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The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance
Indirect Characterization
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To prevent the success of; frustrate; balk
Foil
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The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story
Foreshadowing
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Language which describes something in detail, using words to substitute for and create sensory stimulation, including visual and sound
Imagery
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Where an event occurs which is unexpected, in the sense that it is somehow in absurd or mocking opposition to what would be expected or appropriate. More coincidence is generally not ironic
Irony
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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to a person, idea, or object to which it is not literally applicable. It is an implied analogy or unstated comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another
Metaphor
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The climate of feeling in a literary work. The choice of setting, objects, details, images, and words all contribute towards creating a specific mood
Mood/Tone
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The dominant mood or emotional tone of a work of art, as of a play or novel
Atmosphere
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The speaker or the "voice" of an oral or written work
Narrator
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A figure of speech where animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics
Personification
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Series of events that present and resolve a conflict
Plot
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The perspective from which the story is told
Point of view
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Knows everything, may reveal the motivations, thoughts and feeling of the characters, and gives the reader information
Omniscient Narrator
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The material is presented from the point of view of a character, in third person
Limited Omniscient Narrator
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Presents the action and character's speech, without comment or emotion. The reader has to interpret them and uncover their meaning
Objective Point of View
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Is considered to be the main character or lead figure in a novel, play, story, or poem
Protagonist
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The time, place, physical details, and circumstances in which a situation occurs
Setting
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The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work
Theme
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A direct comparison between two different things. Is introduced by the words "like" or "as"
Simile
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An implied comparison between two different things. Is not introduced with words "like" or "as"
Metaphor
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Struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside for such as nature or character, which drives the dramatic action of the plot
External conflict
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6 types of external conflict
Person vs. Person, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs supernatural, two elements or ideas struggling for mastery within a person
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Psychological struggle within the mind of a literary or dramatic character, the resolution of which creates the plots suspense
Internal conflict
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Type of internal conflict
Man vs self
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A state or condition of mental uncertainty or excitement, as in awaiting a decision or outcome, usually accompanied by a degree of apprehension or anxiety
Suspense
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The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of words group either with the same consonant or sound group
Alliteration
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A brief indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or isa of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance
Allusion
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The repetition of the sound of a vowel
Assonance
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Any light, simple song, especially one of the sentimental or romantic character, having two or more stanzas all sing to the same melody
Ballad
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Unrhymed verse, especially unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verse
Blank Verse
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Poetry in which effects are created by the physical arrangement of words in pattern or forms rather than by the use of traditional language structure
Concrete Poem
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An amusing scene, incident or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from a tension, or to intensify the dramatic action
Comic Relief
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A pair of successful lines of verse, especially a pair that rhymes and are of the same length
Couplet
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A speaker, who is explicitly someone other than the author, makes a speech to a silent auditor in a specific situation and at a critical moment
Dramatic Poetry
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Verse that doesn't follow a fixed metrical pattern
Free verse
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Obvious and intentional exaggeration
Hyperbole
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An act or instance of inverting
Inversion
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An act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast
Juxtaposition
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A comparatively short, non-narrative poem in which a single speaker presents a state of mind or an emotional state
Lyric poem
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Gives a verbal representation, in verse, of a sequence of connected events, it propers characters through a plot
Narrative poem
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The formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent
Onomatopoeia
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Agreement in direction, tendency, or character; the state or condition or being parallel
Parallelism
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A stanza or poem of four lines, usually with alternate rhymes
Quatrian
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To abstain from an implies to say or do something
Refrain
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The act of repeating
Repetition
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Identity in sound of some part, especially the end of words or lines of verses
Rhyme
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Movement or producers with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent or the like
Rhythm
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An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present
Soliloquy
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A person who speaks formally before an audience or lecturer
Speaker
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An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem
Stanza
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Quality or character of sound
Tone
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Tale related by a character in the story "I or me"
1 person point of view
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Uses you
2 person point of view
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Story told by someone not participating in the plot "he, she, they"
3 person limited
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A method of storytelling in which the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story
3 person Omnisicent
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Not influenced by personal feelings or options in considering representing facts
Objective
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A story, poem, or picture that can interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
Allegory
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When the speaker says the opposite of what they mean
Verbal irony
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An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does
Situational irony
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Occurs when the implications of a situation, speech, etc are understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play
Dramatic irony
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Is a long, often book-length, narrative in verse form that resells the heroic journey of a single person, or group of people
Epic poetry
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A poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment of 14 lines, rhymes arranged according to on elf certain definite schemes
Sonnet
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A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of 5,7,5 traditionally evoking image of the natural meaning
Haiku
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A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. Example falsely true
Oxymoron
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A statement that seems self contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth
Paradox
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The action of scanning a line of verse to determine its rhythm
Scansion/scanning
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Is the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound as well as any consonant sounds that follow the vowel
Exact Rhyme
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Rhyme in which either the vowel or consonants of stressed syllables are similar but not identical sound
Slant/approximate rhyme
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A rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses
End rhyme
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Is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between interal phrases across multiple lines
Internal Rhyme
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Is a unit of meter, consisting of a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables
Foot
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A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short syllable followed by one long syllable
Iambic Pentameter
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"Composed of parts" or "the organization of something"
Structure
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An instructors in the text of a play, especially one indication the movement, position, or tone of an actor or the sound effects and lighting
Stage Directions
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Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie
Dialogue
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A long speech by one actor in a play or move, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program
Monologue
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A joke exploiting the different possible meaning of a words or the fact that these are words that alike but have different meaning
Pun
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Introductory sections of a literary or musical work
Prologue
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A section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened
Epilogue
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MLA must be written in wha person
3 formal tone
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True/false: pages two through four are all numbered with headers; first page has a title and has all appropriate information in the upper left hand corner
True
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True/False: page must have 2 inch margin all around including works cited page
False: 1
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True/False: works cited pages doesn't have to have "works cited" centered at the top of the page and entires are all in alphabetical order
False: yes
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True/False: all topic sentences refer specifically back to the thesis statement
True
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True/False: yes personal pronouns
False: no
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True/False: there are contractions
False: no
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True/False: all writers are introduced by their first and last name and then referred to by last name throughout the rest of the paper
True
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True/False: titles are correctly identified with italics/underlining or quotation marks
True
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True/False: no informal phases, cliches, or slang terms in paper
True
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Shakespeare was born where
Stratford-upon-Avon, England
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a statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is
Exaggeration
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is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as verbal communication)
Fable
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a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
Farce
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which is largely dominated by the subgenre of Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism
Gothic
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is fiction and poetry that focuses on the characters, dialect, customs, topography, and other features particular to a specific region
Local color
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is any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story
Motif
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the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay
Nonfiction
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is a long narrative, normally in prose, which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story.
Novel
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often clarifies the original statement by putting it into words that are more easily understood.
Paraphrase
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is used in many works of literature to show foolishness or vice in humans, organizations, or even governments - it uses sarcasm, ridicule, or irony
Satire
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brief fictional prose narrative that is shorter than a novel and that usually deals with only a few characters. is usually concerned with a single effect conveyed in only one or a few significant episodes or scenes.Oct 30, 2014
Short Story
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A character who is so ordinary or unoriginal that the character seems like an oversimplified representation of a type, gender, class, religious group, or occupation
Stereotype
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in literature is the literary element that describes the ways that the author uses words — the author's word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and sentence arrangement all work together to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text.
Style
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a short statement, usually one sentence, that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay, research paper, etc., and is developed, supported, and explained in the text by means of examples and evidence.
Thesis
