Lesson 8 Flashcards
In Elizabethan drama, a mimed scene depicting an episode occurring outside the time sequence of the play
Dumb Show
A play on words, usually for comic effect, but sometimes for a serious purpose
Pun
In drama, a monologue in which a character appears to be thinking out loud, there by communicating to the audience his inner thoughts and feelings
Soliloquy
A form of literature that the depicts the downfall of the leading character whose life, it’s disastrous end not withstanding, represents something significant
Tragedy
In drama, a comment by character directed to the audience, not intended to be heard by other characters on stage
Aside
A branch of philosophy that explores the theory of the beautiful and the nature of art
Aesthetics
The capacity to enter into the experience of another
Empathy
A 14 line lyric poem usually written in iambic pentameter
Sonnet
A significant idea a literary work; a motif
Theme
A literary form idealizing rural settings
Pastoral
A traditional assumption or practice in literature or drama
Convention
A verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter; standard form of English drama
Blank verse
Hey humor as seen in tragic drama or fiction that has the effect of temporarily altering the mood of the play and thereby relieving the tension
Comic relief
A form of critical analysis that involves the close reading of literary text
Explication
Narrative convention a story begins in the middle of things rather than chronologically
In media res
The part of the play or fiction that sets up the main action, introduces the characters, explains the background, and anticipates the conflict
Exposition
An element that appears in a number of literary works
Motif
A term for an exaggerated description of an individual
Caricature
To edit out material deemed offensive
Bowderlize
A passage that is repeated at various points in a poem or song
Refrain
Doctrine that a literary work should end with good rewarded evil punished
Poetic justice
A pleasing, agreeable sound, traditionally associated with lyric poetry
Euphony
The traditional term for the source of poetic inspiration
Muse
Figure of speech in which the part stands for the whole or the whole for the part
Synecdoche
