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Terms Accent to Dialogue Flashcards

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What is the stressing of certain syllables or words?

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Accent

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What is the actual movements and speech of characters performing or “acting out” situations on the stage?

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Action

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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?

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Allegory

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What is the repetition of the same consonant sound?

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Alliteration

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What is a reference to mythology, history. or a literary work?

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Allusion

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What is a comparison of two different things that may share common characteristics?

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Analogy

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Who is the opponent of force in conflict with the protagonist?

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Antagonist

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What are words addressed to an inanimate object as if it were alive or to an absent person as if he were present

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Apostrophe

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What is dramatic effect in which a character directly addresses either the audience or another character?

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Aside

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What is another name for the Neoclassical Age and the Age of Pope?

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Augustan Age

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What were often anonymous works, produced from Anglo Saxon times until the seventeenth century, through which common people would be understood?

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Ballad

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Which type of ballad was an imitation by a modern poet of the early English and Scottish popular ballads?

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Art ballad

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Which type of ballad was a short, narrative folk song which tells of a single event in an objective manner?

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Popular ballad

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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?

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Ballad stanza

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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?

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Biography

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What is unrhymed iambic pentameter?

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Blank verse

17
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What is a unique type of Romantic character developed by Byron?

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Byronic hero

18
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What is a pause or break in a line of poetry?

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Caesura

19
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What is a popular art form which originated in medieval France?

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Carol

20
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Who were lyricists of a lighthearted nature who emphasized the pleasures of this world and who wrote love songs to or about women?

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Cavalier poets

21
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What is the portrayal of the imaginary person who carry out the action of the plot in a novel or a story?

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Characterization

22
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What type of exposition tells the reader directly what the character is like?

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Direct exposition

23
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What allows the reader to draw his own conclusion from what the character thinks or what other characters think about him?

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Indirect revelation

24
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Who are the people who perform the action of a narrative, novel, or play?

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Characters

25
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What is a play that ends happily?

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Comedy

26
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What is a humorous event or speech used to provide temporary relief from the intense dreams of the play?

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Comic relief

27
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What is an elaborate comparison of two things which superficially have little in common?

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Conceit

28
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What type of conceit points out an unusual parallel between highly dissimilar elements?

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Metaphysical conceit

29
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What is a struggle between opposing forces?

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Conflict

30
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What are two rhyming lines which express a complete thought?

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Couplet

31
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What are two rhymed lines written in iambic pentameter?

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Heroic couplet

32
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What is a belief in an impersonal God, who left creation to run by natural laws?

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Deism

33
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What is the outcome or resolution in which all the loose ends are tied up at the end of the play?

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Denouement

34
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What are the speeches between two or more characters in a play?

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Dialogue

35
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What is a character that stays the same throughout the play?

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Static

36
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What is a character that changes?

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Dynamic

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