Final Exam Review Flashcards
Iambic pentameter
the metrical pattern used by Shakespeare. 5 iambs (unstressed, stressed) per line
Foreshadowing
Suggesting, hinting, indicating or showing what will occur later in a narrative. Foreshadowing provides hints about what will happen next
Monologue
One character speaking alone for an extended period of time
Soliloquy
A monologue spoken by an actor when they think they are alone.
Reveals the character’s innermost thoughts, feelings, state of mind, or intentions
Rising action
Series of events leading up to the climax
Climax
The protagonist reaches the peak of his or her power and a distinct change occurs in him/her as well as in the direction of the action
Falling action
The antagonist begins to rise in power. The conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist becomes the essence of the plat
Resolution
Glimpse of restored order
Prose
written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
Couplet
Two line stanzas
Pun
A play on words
Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
Free verse
No disernable rhyme or meter, but short that look like verse as opposed to the sentences of prose
Irony
The constrast between the apparent situation and the real situation
Verbal irony
a contrast between what someone says and what he/she means
Situational irony
a contrast between what it seems like will happen and what really does happens
Dramatic
a contrast between what the audience or charcters know and what another character doesn’t know
Sonnet
A lyrical poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to certain definite patterns
Personification
Giving human qualities to non-human things
Oxymoron
A contridiction in terms
Allusion
A reference to a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art outside the text
Metaphor
A comparison of two unlike things stated in auch a way as to imply that one object is another, figuratively speaking
Simile
A comparison of two unlike things implied by using an adverb such as like or as
