Terms for Review Flashcards

1
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Plot

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A carefully selected series of events that are artfully arranged and the relationships between them. ALSO, It is an abstraction of events and life

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2
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Shakespearian/English Sonnet

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ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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3
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Petrarchan Sonnet

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ABBA ABBA CDCDCD OR

ABBA ABBA CDECDE

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4
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Symbol

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A Physical thing that has an abstract meaning

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5
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Verbal Irony

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Sarcasm

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6
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Irony

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Discrepancy

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7
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Dramatic Irony

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Character doesn’t know something that the reader does

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8
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Tragic Irony

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Character intends good to come of their action, but bad comes of it

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9
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Point of View/Structural Irony

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The narrator is Naive

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10
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Character

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Abstraction of a person/being

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11
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Soliloquy

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When a character in a play is alone on stage and talks out their feelings to the audience.

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12
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Aside

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When a character in a play talks to the audience alone while other characters are in the scene

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13
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3 elements of Tragedy

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Noble Protagonist, come to ruin by hamartia, Pity + Fear

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14
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Hamartia

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Aristotle says tragic flaw, it’s like missing a target in archery
Goossen says it’s more like a misjudgement

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15
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Low Comedy

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Physical and slapstick humour

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16
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Satiric Comedy

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a little harsher

17
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High Comedy

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Wordplay, witty banter

18
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Info Card

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You will need to give an example of the terms that come up in the test from one of the texts we have studied