Vocab

Question 1

Tragedy

Answer 1

a play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end

Question 2

Aside

Answer 2

words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character but that are not supposed to be overheard by the others onstage

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

a challenge a character faces (internal or external)

Question 4

Motif

Answer 4

a recurring element/a symbolic image or idea that appears frequently (can be sounds, actions, ideas, words, items, etc.)

Question 5

Tone

Answer 5

the author’s attitude toward the subject matter

Question 6

Mood

Answer 6

the emotional response the writer is trying to evoke in his reader/audience

Question 7

Prose

Answer 7

direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use

Question 8

Anachronism

Answer 8

event or detail that is inappropriate for the time period

Question 9

Verbal irony

Answer 9

a writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different

Question 10

Dramatic irony

Answer 10

the audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know

the audience or reader knows something before one or more of the characters

Question 11

Monologue

Answer 11

a speech by one character in a play

Question 12

Soliloquy

Answer 12

an unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud

Question 13

Foil

Answer 13

character who is used as a contrast to another character; writer sets off/intensifies the qualities of 2 characters this way

Question 14

Paradox

Answer 14

a statement that seems contradictory yet makes sense or is possibly true

Question 15

Oxymoron

Answer 15

a combination of contradictory terms (EX: jumbo shrimp)

Question 16

Pun

Answer 16

a play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings

Question 17

Comic relief

Answer 17

humor added that lessens the seriousness of a plot

Question 18

Petrachan lover

Answer 18

one whose undying love for another is not returned

Question 19

Static character

Answer 19

character who does not change much in the course of a story

Question 20

Dynamic character

Answer 20

character who changes as a result of the story’s events

Question 21

Enjambment

Answer 21

the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break

Question 22

Allusion

Answer 22

Reference to popular historic event (Greek Gods, Bible, Folklore, Pop-Culture)

An allusion is a reference to a well-known person, character, place, or event that a writer makes to deepen the reader’s understanding of their work by creating an association between the work and the reference.

Question 23

Simile

Answer 23

A simile is a type of figurative language that describes something by comparing it to something else with the words like or as.

Question 24

Metaphor

Answer 24

A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.

Question 25

Simile/Metaphor NOTE

Answer 25

Here’s a tip: Similes are like metaphors, but metaphors aren’t similes.

A metaphor makes a comparison by stating that one thing is something else, but a simile states that one thing is like something else.

Question 26

Antecedent

Answer 26

A person, place, thing, or clause represented by a pronoun.

An antecedent is a noun or a noun phrase that gives meaning to a pronoun that, most of the time, comes after the antecedent and replaces it.

Chelsey finished her presentation, “Chelsey” is the antecedent and “her” is the pronoun.

Question 27

lamb

Answer 27

Two syllables, the first unstressed and the other stressed (unite or produce, for example)

Question 28

iambic pentameter

Answer 28

10 syllables made up of five iambs

Question 29

Fate

Answer 29

Involves the heavens, stars, or god(s) that has control over a future event(s)

Examples: The stars are aligned… | May the odds be ever in your favor…

Question 30

Foreshadowing

Answer 30

Not obvious and often is unnoticed until after the reveal has occurred

Example: Oh…that is why they did…