Literary Terms (Dialouge) Flashcards
Aside
A brief speech in which a character turns from the person being addressed to speak directly to the audience; a dramatic device for letting the audience know what a character is really thinking or feeling as opposed to what the character pretends to think or feel
Colloquial
Informal, conversational language
Dialogue
(1) Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
(2) A literary work written in the form of a conversation.
Dialect
A regional variety of language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary
Diction
Word choice
Euphemism
Substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for a harsh blunt, or offensive one
Figure of speech
Broadly, any way of saying something other than the ordinary way; more narrowly a way of saying one thing and meaning another
Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which exaggeration in used in the service of truth
Invective
Denunciatory or abusive language
Monologue
(1) A dramatic soliloquy.
(2) A literary composition in such form.
Proverb
A short, pithy saying that expresses a basic truth of practical precept.
Sarcasm
Bitter or cutting speech; speech intended by its speaker to give pain to the person addressed
Soliloquy
A device often used in drama where by a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings to him/herself and to the audience without addressing any of the other characters
Slang
A kind of language esp. occurring in casual or playful speech, usu. made up in short-lived coinages and figures of speech deliberately used in a place of standard terms
Understatement
A figure of speech that consists of saying less less than one means, or of saying what one means with less force than the occasion warrants
