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- tragic hero
- the main character in a tragedy who usually wins self-knowlage too late to change/avoid his own down fall
- quatrain
- set of four lines in a poem
- satire
- type of writing that ridicules human weakness, vice, or folly to reveal a weakness or to bring about reform
- comedy
- story in which an ordinary character overcomes obstacles to get what he/she wants (often ends in a wedding of at least two character, but may have multiple coupling or weddings)
- theme
- the central idea or insight about human life or the human condition that a piece of literature reveals
- tragedy
- a story depicting serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unfortunate end due to a flaw in his/her character that cannot be fixed or changed by the character (often ends in a funeral)
- sestet
- set of six lines in a poem
- tone
- the attitude a writer takes toward his/her subject, character, or reader (satirical, ironic, etc
- sonnet
- a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter
- Suspense
- the feeling created in a reader when he/she wonders what will happen next
- couplet
- set of two lines in a poem
- tragic flaw
- the serious character weakness that brings about the downfall or death of the tragic hear
- soliloquy
- long speech in which a character in a play is alone and expresses private thoughts or feelings
- symbol
- a person, place, thing, or event that stands for both itself and something beyond itself
- short story
- a brief work of fiction (usually less than 50,000 words)
- stanza
- a group of consecutive lines that form a single unit in a poem
- octave
- set of eight lines in a poem
- petrarchan /italian sonnet
- created by by petrarch rhyme scheme is ABBAABBA CDECDE (one octave and one sestet)
- rhythm
- a musical quality in language, produced by repetition (often described as the meter of a poem)
- simile
- a type of figurative language in which one thing is directly compared to another using the term like or as
- style
- the particular way a writer uses language ( the special way a writer puts together words and phrases)
- verisimilitude
- the appearance of realism in a book due to the authors use of intense imagery, characterization, and accurate dialect
- Speaker
- the voice talking in a poem (called a narrator in a story)
- Shakespearean/ Elizabethan sonnet
- created by shakespeare rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ( four quatrains and one couplet)
- setting
- the time and place of a storys action( this may change if there are various scenes)