Midterm

Question 1

tragedy

Answer 1

literary work where main character, who is high-ranking, goes through serious events and has an unhappy ending.

Question 2

supernatural

Answer 2

anything beyond human

Question 3

fate

Answer 3

predestination, what is meant to be

Question 4

free will

Answer 4

your choices determine your outcome

Question 5

theme

Answer 5

central idea or insight of a work of literature

Question 6

irony

Answer 6

intended meaning of a word is different than what actually happens

Question 7

paradox

Answer 7

apparent contradiction that is actually true

Question 8

imagery

Answer 8

language that appeals to the senses

Question 9

motif

Answer 9

in literature, a word, character, object, image, metaphor, or idea that recurs in a work or in several works

Question 10

aside

Answer 10

private words that a character in a play speaks to the audience or to another character and that are not supposed to be overheard by others on stage

Question 11

Blank Verse

Answer 11

poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 12

iamb

Answer 12

iamb is a unit of measure consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable *put symbols in here later.

Question 13

iambic pentameter

Answer 13

line of poetry made up of five iambs

Question 14

prose

Answer 14

written or spoken in ordinary form, without metrical structure

Question 15

soliloquy

Answer 15

a long speech in which a character who is usually alone on stage expresses his or her private thoughts or feelings