MIDTERM

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Who are the three main characters of Julius Caesar

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Brutus, Cassius and Mark Antony

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Who were the three main characters in lord of the flies?

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Ralph,Piggy, Jack

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Act

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A major section of a play.

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Allegory:

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A narrative technique in which characters representing things or abstract ideas are used to convey a message or teach a lesson.

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Alliteration:

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A poetic device where the first consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in words or syllables are repeated.

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Antagonist:

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The major character in a narrative or drama who works against the hero or protagonist.

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Anti-hero:

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A central character in a work of literature who lacks traditional heroic qualities

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Aside:

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A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play.

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Assonance:

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds in Poetry.

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Blank Verse:

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Loosely, any unrhymed poetry, but more generally, unrhymed iambic pentameter verse

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Convention:

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Any widely accepted literary device, style, or form.

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Couplet:

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Two lines of Poetry with the same rhyme and Meter

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Denouement:

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In literary criticism, it denotes the resolution of conflict in fiction or drama.

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Dissonance:

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A combination of harsh or jarring sounds, especially in Poetry.

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Dramatic Irony

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Occurs when the audience of a play or the reader of a work of literature knows something that a character in the work itself does not know

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Elegy:

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A lyric poem that laments the death of a person or the eventual death of all people.

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Epic:

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A long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero of great historic or legendary importance.

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Fable:

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A prose or Verse narrative intended to convey a moral

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Fairy Tales:

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Short narratives featuring mythical beings such as fairies, elves, and sprites.

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Folktale

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A story originating in oral tradition.

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Foot:

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The smallest unit of rhythm in a line of Poetry

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Form:

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The pattern or construction of a work which identifies its genre and distinguishes it from other genres.

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Free Verse:

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Poetry that lacks regular metrical and rhyme patterns but that tries to capture the Cadences of everyday speech.

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Hyperbole:

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In literary criticism, deliberate exaggeration used to achieve an effect.

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Idiom:

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a phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say

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Internal Rhyme:

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rhyme that occurs within a single line of Verse.

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Irony:

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In literary criticism, the effect of language in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated

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verbal irony:

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occurs when the speaker means something totally different than what he or she is saying and often times the opposite of what a character is saying is true

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dramatic irony:

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occurs when facts are not known to the characters in a work of literature but are known by the audience

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cosmic irony:

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suggests that some unknown force brings about dire and dreadful events

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irony of situation:

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the difference between what is expected to happen and the way events actually work out.

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Lyric Poetry:

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A poem expressing the subjective feelings and personal emotions of the poet

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Measure:

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The Foot, Verse, or time sequence used in a literary work, especially a poem. Measure is often used somewhat incorrectly as a synonym for Meter.

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Meter:

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In literary criticism, the repetition of sound patterns that creates a rhythm in Poetry

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Motif:

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A theme, character type, image, Metaphor, or other verbal element that recurs throughout a single work of literature or occurs in a number of different works over a period of time.

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Narrative Poetry:

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A nondramatic poem in which the author tells a story. Such poems may be of any length or level of complexity.

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Onomatopoeia:

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The use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning.

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Poetic License:

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Distortions of fact and literary convention made by a writer — not always a poet — for the sake of the effect gained.

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Point of View:

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The narrative perspective from which a literary work is presented to the reader.

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Scansion:

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The analysis or “scanning” of a poem to determine its Meter and often its rhyme scheme.

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Soliloquy

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a speech delivered by a character in a play or other literature while alone, or an utterance by a person who is talking to him/herself, disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present.

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Sonnet:

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A fourteen-line poem, usually composed in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes.

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Who were the three main characters in Inherit the Wind

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Cates, Drummond, and Brady

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Scansion:

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The analysis or “scanning” of a poem to determine its Meter and often its rhyme scheme.

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What is the main theme between the books?

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good vs evil