TERMINOLOGY

Question 1

epizeuxis

Answer 1

Rhetorical speech where a word or phrase repeated in immediate succession, no intervening word

Question 2

Iambic pentameter

Answer 2

ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet (iambs) with the second syllable stressed, mimicking a heartbeat

Question 3

Blank verse

Answer 3

Metrical form but no rhyme

Question 4

Soliloquy

Answer 4

act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play

Question 5

prose

Answer 5

conversational way of speaking which doesn’t have a set rhythm or structure. Writing is full away across the page

Question 6

tragic hero

Answer 6

protagonist of a tragedy
Aristotles rules:
● Noble birth
● Experience a reversal of fortune
● Must have an Hamartia or fatal flaw
● The final outcome must be tragic and the hero must die at the end

Question 7

rhyming verse

Answer 7

metrical form that rhymes throughout

Question 8

deus ex machina

Answer 8

filling in plot holes - plot device used when a seemingly unsolvable conflict or impossible problem is solved by the sudden appearance of an unexpected person, object, or event

Question 9

rhyming couplets

Answer 9

two lines written in iambic pentameter that end in the same sound, or a rhyme. They are o en used to sum up the end of a character’s speech

Question 10

peripeteia

Answer 10

sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative

Question 11

stichomythia

Answer 11

dialogue in which two characters speak alternate lines of verse

Question 12

exposition

Answer 12

introduces the key background information of a narrative - sets the play

Question 13

hamartia

Answer 13

fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine

Question 14

denouement

Answer 14

conclusion after the climax of a narrative in which the complexities of the plot are unraveled and the conflict is finally resolved

Question 15

anagnorisis

Answer 15

point in which a principal character recognizes or discovers another character’s true identity or the true nature of their own circumstances

Question 16

dramatic irony

Answer 16

when the audience knows more than a character/s

Question 17

catharsis

Answer 17

process of releasing, and thereby pro ding relief from, strong or repressed emotions, o en at the end of the narrative - climax resolved

Question 18

meter

Answer 18

regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that defines the rhythm of some poetry

Question 19

hubris

Answer 19

excessive pride or self-confidence

Question 20

puns

Answer 20

form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect

I.e “ A little more than kin, and less than kind “