Technical Stuff

Question 1

Dramatic conventions: Soliloquies or asides

Answer 1

Character’s spontaneous thoughts and feelings

Question 2

Name some dramatic conventions:

Answer 2

Dramatic irony
Off-stage action
Disguise
Parallelism of main and sub plot
Internal and external conflict

Question 3

Dramatic conventions: juxtaposition of scenes eg:

Answer 3

Malvolio locked up vs Sebastian ‘s love

Question 4

Dramatic conventions: dramatic relief

Answer 4

Contrasting comedy and tragedy

Question 5

Dramatic conventions: movement

Answer 5

The ways in which the play falls aka its story

Question 6

Dramatic conventions: dramatic structure

Answer 6

Including tension and intensity - not everything at once

Question 7

Dramatic conventions: situational irony

Answer 7

When a situation has results contrary to those expected

Question 8

Literary devices: paradox

Answer 8

A statement that appears contradictory but contains truth

Question 9

Give an example of a paradox from the play

Answer 9

‘Than love that would seem his: love’s night is noon’

Question 10

Literary devices: oxymoron

Answer 10

A term or phrase that is apparently self-contradictory

Question 11

Give an example of an oxymoron from the play

Answer 11

‘Sweet pangs’

Question 12

Literary devices: verbal irony

Answer 12

A discrepancy between what is said and what it really means

Question 13

Literary devices: pun

Answer 13

An expression that utilises two distinct definitions of the same word or phrase to achieve emphasis or humour

Question 14

allegory

Answer 14

a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. A symbol

Question 15

ALLITERATION

Answer 15

the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
“the alliteration of ‘sweet birds sang’

Question 16

allusion

Answer 16

to make reference to something usually biblical

Question 17

amplification

Answer 17

extending a sentence to elaborate or exaggerate

Question 18

anagram

Answer 18

a type of word play in which the letters of a word or phrase are rearranged to create new words or phrases

Question 19

analogy

Answer 19

where two unrelated objects are compared for their similarities

Question 20

anastrophe

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the order of the noun and the adjective are exchanged
e.g. ‘he spoke of times past and future, and dreamt of things to be’

Question 21

anecdote

Answer 21

a very short story relevantant to the topic

Question 22

anthromorphism

Answer 22

giving objects human qualities

Question 23

antithesis

Answer 23

means opposite
two statements which contrast each other e.g. one small step for man one giant leap for mankind

Question 24

aphorism

Answer 24

a short truthful statement e.g. if the show fits wear it

Question 25

archetype

Answer 25

a universal story character or symbol used in many different stories e.g. a hero

Question 26

assonance

Answer 26

the repetition of similar vowel sounds

Question 27

asyndeton

Answer 27

leaving out conjunction words

Question 28

authorial intrusion

Answer 28

where the author steps away from the text and speaks to the reader

Question 29

biblomancy

Answer 29

the practice of foretelling the future by interpreting a randomly chosen passage from a book, especially the Bible

Question 30

bildungsroman

Answer 30

coming of age story

Question 31

cacophony

Answer 31

a harsh discordant mixture of sounds.

Question 32

caesura

Answer 32

punctuation in the middle of the line

Question 33

characterisation

Answer 33

the construction of a character

Question 34

chiasmus

Answer 34

the reversing the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases. e.g. do i love you because you’re beautiful or are you beautiful because i love you

Question 35

circumlocution

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the use of many words where fewer would do, especially in a deliberate attempt to be vague or evasive.

Question 36

consonance

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the recurrence of similar-sounding consonants in close proximity,

Question 37

denotation

Answer 37

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

Question 38

deus ex machina

Answer 38

an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel.

Question 39

doppelganger

Answer 39

a literary archetype of a character who meets his or her apparent double, with plot developments following. The plot and character device of “twinning”

Question 40

epithet

Answer 40

an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

Question 41

euphony

Answer 41

the quality of being pleasing to the ear.

Question 42

foil

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a character who contrasts with another character —usually the protagonist— to highlight particular qualities of the other character. In some cases, a subplot can be used as a foil to the main plot. This is especially true in the case of metafiction and the “story within a story” motif.

Question 43

hubris

Answer 43

another word for pride (as a cause for destruction)

Question 44

hyperbaton

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an inversion of the normal order of words, especially for the sake of emphasis, as in the sentence ‘ this I must see ’.

Question 45

litotes

Answer 45

ironic understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary eg ‘i shan’t be sorry’ for ‘i shan’t be glad’