Terms Accent to Dialogue Flashcards
What is the stressing of certain syllables or words?
Accent
What is the actual movements and speech of characters performing or “acting out” situations on the stage?
Action
What is a narrative in which the character, places, and events represent certain abstract qualities or ideas designed to teach some moral lesson or truth?
Allegory
What is the repetition of the same consonant sound?
Alliteration
What is a reference to mythology, history. or a literary work?
Allusion
What is a comparison of two different things that may share common characteristics?
Analogy
Who is the opponent of force in conflict with the protagonist?
Antagonist
What are words addressed to an inanimate object as if it were alive or to an absent person as if he were present
Apostrophe
What is dramatic effect in which a character directly addresses either the audience or another character?
Aside
What is another name for the Neoclassical Age and the Age of Pope?
Augustan Age
What were often anonymous works, produced from Anglo Saxon times until the seventeenth century, through which common people would be understood?
Ballad
Which type of ballad was an imitation by a modern poet of the early English and Scottish popular ballads?
Art ballad
Which type of ballad was a short, narrative folk song which tells of a single event in an objective manner?
Popular ballad
What is a four line stanza with four accented iambic syllables in lines one and three, and three accented syllables in lines two and four?
Ballad stanza
What introduces the facts of another person’s life and orders them in such a way that the reader can develop real insight into the person’s character?
Biography
What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?
Blank verse
What is a unique type of Romantic character developed by Byron?
Byronic hero
What is a pause or break in a line of poetry?
Caesura
What is a popular art form which originated in medieval France?
Carol
Who were lyricists of a lighthearted nature who emphasized the pleasures of this world and who wrote love songs to or about women?
Cavalier poets
What is the portrayal of the imaginary person who carry out the action of the plot in a novel or a story?
Characterization
What type of exposition tells the reader directly what the character is like?
Direct exposition
What allows the reader to draw his own conclusion from what the character thinks or what other characters think about him?
Indirect revelation
Who are the people who perform the action of a narrative, novel, or play?
Characters
