Vocab

Question 0

Tone

Answer 0

which encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, somber, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes.

Question 1

Non fiction

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prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history.

Question 2

Imagery

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an author’s use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to his or her work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader’s understanding of the work. Powerful forms of imagery engage all of the senses and use metaphors to express ideas and concepts.

Question 3

Couplet

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is a pair of lines of metre in poetry

Question 4

Allegory

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in its most general sense is an extended metaphor.

Question 5

Drama

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is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.

Question 6

Drama- Tradegy

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is a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes in its audience an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in the viewing.

Question 7

Drama- Comedy

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work generally intended to be humorous or to amuse by inducing laughter

Question 8

Age of Reason

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an era from the 1650s to the 1780s in which cultural and intellectual forces in Western Europe emphasized reason, analysis and individualism rather than traditional lines of authority

Question 9

Aside

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is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. By convention the audience is to realize that the character’s speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. It may be addressed to the audience expressly (in character or out) or represent an unspoken thought

Question 10

Soliloquy

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is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience.

Question 11

Romanticism

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was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

Question 12

Narrator

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is either a personal character or a non-personal voice created by the author to deliver information to the audience about the plot and, often, other narrative information. The narrator may be a person devised by the author as an anonymous or stand-alone entity; the author themselves; or a fictional or non-fictional character within their own story.

Question 13

Speaker

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One who makes a speech to an audience

Question 14

Rhythm

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any regular recurring motion, symmetry

Question 15

Theme

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central topic a text treats

Question 16

Refrain

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to repeat

Question 17

Personification

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is attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being.

Question 18

Setting

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includes the historical moment in time and geographic location in which a story takes place, and helps initiate the main backdrop and mood for a story.

Question 19

Plot

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is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, how the reader views the story, or simply by coincidence.