MIDTERM Flashcards
Who are the three main characters of Julius Caesar
Brutus, Cassius and Mark Antony
Who were the three main characters in lord of the flies?
Ralph,Piggy, Jack
Act
A major section of a play.
Allegory:
A narrative technique in which characters representing things or abstract ideas are used to convey a message or teach a lesson.
Alliteration:
A poetic device where the first consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in words or syllables are repeated.
Antagonist:
The major character in a narrative or drama who works against the hero or protagonist.
Anti-hero:
A central character in a work of literature who lacks traditional heroic qualities
Aside:
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.
Assonance:
The repetition of similar vowel sounds in Poetry.
Blank Verse:
Loosely, any unrhymed poetry, but more generally, unrhymed iambic pentameter verse
Convention:
Any widely accepted literary device, style, or form.
Couplet:
Two lines of Poetry with the same rhyme and Meter
Denouement:
In literary criticism, it denotes the resolution of conflict in fiction or drama.
Dissonance:
A combination of harsh or jarring sounds, especially in Poetry.
Dramatic Irony
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
Elegy:
A lyric poem that laments the death of a person or the eventual death of all people.
Epic:
A long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero of great historic or legendary importance.
Fable:
A prose or Verse narrative intended to convey a moral
Fairy Tales:
Short narratives featuring mythical beings such as fairies, elves, and sprites.
Folktale
A story originating in oral tradition.
Foot:
The smallest unit of rhythm in a line of Poetry
Form:
The pattern or construction of a work which identifies its genre and distinguishes it from other genres.
Free Verse:
Poetry that lacks regular metrical and rhyme patterns but that tries to capture the Cadences of everyday speech.
Hyperbole:
In literary criticism, deliberate exaggeration used to achieve an effect.
Idiom:
a phrase or expression that means something different from what the words actually say
Internal Rhyme:
rhyme that occurs within a single line of Verse.
Irony:
In literary criticism, the effect of language in which the intended meaning is the opposite of what is stated
verbal irony:
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
dramatic irony:
occurs when facts are not known to the characters in a work of literature but are known by the audience
cosmic irony:
suggests that some unknown force brings about dire and dreadful events
irony of situation:
the difference between what is expected to happen and the way events actually work out.
Lyric Poetry:
A poem expressing the subjective feelings and personal emotions of the poet
Measure:
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.
Meter:
In literary criticism, the repetition of sound patterns that creates a rhythm in Poetry
Motif:
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.
Narrative Poetry:
A nondramatic poem in which the author tells a story. Such poems may be of any length or level of complexity.
Onomatopoeia:
The use of words whose sounds express or suggest their meaning.
Poetic License:
Distortions of fact and literary convention made by a writer — not always a poet — for the sake of the effect gained.
Point of View:
The narrative perspective from which a literary work is presented to the reader.
Scansion:
The analysis or “scanning” of a poem to determine its Meter and often its rhyme scheme.
Soliloquy
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.
Sonnet:
A fourteen-line poem, usually composed in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes.
Who were the three main characters in Inherit the Wind
Cates, Drummond, and Brady
Scansion:
The analysis or “scanning” of a poem to determine its Meter and often its rhyme scheme.
What is the main theme between the books?
good vs evil
