Tues Flashcards
Farce
Literary work characterized by broad humor, wild antics, and often slap stick or other physical humor
Feminine ending
A line of verse having an unstressed verse
Figures of speech
Any word or phrase that create a “figure” in the mind of the reader by effecting an obvious change in the usual meaning or order of words
Flashback
Plot structuring device whereby a scene from the fictional past is inserted into the fictional present
Foil
Character that serves as a contrast to another
Foreshadowing
Hint or clue about what will happen at a later moment in the plot
Formal diction
Speech that is impersonal and dignified
Formula fiction
Type of fiction where multiple books or fictional worlds share many common elements, to the point of being predictable
Free verse
Poetry characterized by varying line lengths, lack of traditional meter, and non rhyming lines
Genre
A type of category of works sharing particular formal or textual features
Haiku
Poetic form that consists of 17 syllables arranged in 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 8 syllables respectively
Heroic couplet
Consisting of 2 rhyming lines in iambic pentameter
History play
Drama with a theme from history consisting loosely connected episodes chronologically arranged
Hubris
Extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that brings about his downfall
Hyperbole
Exaggerated language to highlight a significance
Iambic meter
Metrical form in ehich each foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one
In medias res
Story that starts in the mist of action
Irony
Situation or statement that is completely different that was was expected
Jargon
Use of specific phrases or words by writers in a particular situation
Limerick
Humorous verse form consisting of mainly anapestic lines
Lyric
Originally a poem meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a Lyne
Melodrama
Drama in a play that has exaggerated meaning
Meter
The none or less regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Miracle play
Medieval drama from dealing with religious subjects such as biblical stones or saint’s lives
Naive character
Character within a story whose voice is used to check a sense of ironic observation through their own inexperience or innocence
Naturalism
A manner or technique of threating subject matter they presents through volume of detail, a deterministic view of human nature
Objective point of view
The writers tells what is happening with out stating more than can be inferred from the story’s action and dialogue
Octave
Eight lines of verse lined by a pattern of end rhymes, especially the first eight lines of an Italian
Falling action
The 4th of the 5 plots in which the conflict moves toward the resolution
