Terms (Techniques - Structure)

Question 1

Anaphora

Answer 1

Repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of sentences

Question 2

Antithesis

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Structure that uses opposites to emphasise (e.g. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”)

Question 3

Blank verse

Answer 3

Poetry written in iambic pentameter with no rhyme scheme

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Couplet

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A rhymed pair of lines

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Cyclical structure

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When the same sequence of events repeat at the start and end of a play (full circle story)

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Dramatic irony

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When the audience knows something that a character does not

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Dramatic monologue

Answer 7

A passage of speech read aloud to the audience by a character (thinking out loud)

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Epistrophe

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When the same word or group of words is used at the end of successive sentences for emphasis

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Iambic pentameter

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A sentence (10 syllables) which is composed of two beats in every five syllables — first stressed, second unstressed (DA-dum)

Question 10

In Media Res

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Starting in the middle of action

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Microcosm

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Using a place, group of people or event in the small-scale to represent something much larger (e.g. the battle at the start of Macbeth is a microcosm for the whole play)

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Paradox

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A statement that seems to contradict itself but is still true

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Soliloquy

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A character stands alone on stage and addresses the audience, voicing their deepest thoughts and feelings

Question 14

Stichomythia

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A dialogue between two characters who speak one after the other