Week 3 Flashcards
Outlandish physical comedy that has silly characters, improbably happenings, wild clowning, extravagant language, and bawdy jokes
Farce
Brief story illustrating a moral truth
Fable
Usually a minor character who is used to highlight qualities of a major character
Foil character
Diagram showing the stages of dramatic structure
Freyrags pyramid
Type of literature such as fiction and poetry; type of work such as detective fiction, epic poetry
Genre
Two successive rhyming lines of iambic pentameter; five stress couplets are often called “heroic” regardless of their topic matter and the period in which they were written
Heroic couplet
Usage that produces unique words and phrases within regions, classes or groups (carry a pail or carry a bucket).
Idiom
20th c movement in poetry which advocated the creation of hard, clear images, concisely written in everyday speech
Imagism
Situational (emphasis on ineffectiveness and powerless), verbal, (says the opposite of what is intended or expected) dramatic (audience knows what the character does not)
Irony
Comic use of improperly pronounced word so that what comes out is a real but also incorrect word (ex: odorous for odious)
Malapropism
Sentimental dramatic form with an artificially happy ending
Melodrama
Dead, (overused) mixed ( mixes it’s terms do that they are visually or imaginatively incompatible) extended (metaphor that is extended or developed as far as the writer wants to take it)
Metaphor
One thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified ( dear hearts)
Metonymy
Term for bold new experimental styles and forms that swept the arts during the first third of the 20th c
Modernism
Short novel
Novella
