Vocab Review Set 2
Terms
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- company of singers
- CHORUS
- first incident that creates conflict
- COMPLICATING INCIDENT
- element that creates a new situation
- COMPLICATION
- an accepted way of doing something
- CONVENTION
- when opposing forces are brought into intense struggle
- CRISIS
- something that happens; a single event
- INCIDENT
- passing judgement on a work
- CRITICISM
- when story starts in the middle of the action
- IN MEDIA RES
- exact definition of a word
- DENOTATION
- opposite than expected; when audience knows something that the character does not
- IRONY
- conversation between characters in a literary work
- DIALOGUE
- immediately follows climax; fortune of protagonist reverses
- DRAMATIC REVERSE
- story instances are plausible; time, place, and plot are all in unity
- DRAMATIC UNITIES
- short speech to audience at the end of a play or novel
- EPILOGUE
- expressing one thing in terms of another
- FIGURATIVE
- speech by actor when alone; informs audience
- SOLILOQUY
- center around which author organizes his material
- FOCUS
- succession of short sharp single-line speeches in dialogue
- STICHOMYTHY
- character that, through contrast, emphasizes another character
- FOIL
- one story that is basic but another story develops from it
- FRAME STORY
- poetry that tells a story
- NARRATIVE POETRY
- long narrative poem which, in dignified and elevated style, tells of the mighty deeds of a great hero
- EPIC
- mimics the style of an epic, but deals with a trivial subject
- MOCK EPIC
- form of narrative poetry which was intended to be sung by several people
- FOLK/POPULAR BALLAD
- imitation of folk ballad done by one author
- LITERARY BALLAD
- long narrative poem of medieval times
- METRICAL ROMANCE
- poetry written in the form of a drama
- DRAMATIC POETRY
- poetry that express the personal feelings, thoughts, etc of its author(s)
- LYRIC POETRY
- short, simple, subjective poem which directly and forcefully expresses a single emotion
- LYRIC
- short lyric poem designed to be sung
- SONG
- lyric poem that treats a serious subject thoughtfully and emotionally; has dignified style and complex metrical pattern
- ODE
- merely a story told in verse
- METRICAL TALE
- 14-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter
- SONNET
- poem that laments the dead
- ELEGY
- poem of three 8-line stanzas all rhyming "ababbcbc" and a 4-line "envoi" rhyming "bcbc"
- BALLADE
- pattern of rhythm in a line of poetry
- METER
- recurring rise and fall of sounds in a line of poetry
- RHYTHM
- emphasis given to one or more syllables in a word
- ACCENT
- portion of a line of poetry, usually consisting of one accented and 1+ unaccented syllables
- FOOT
- distinguishing of metrical feet in a line of poetry by oral accent or by written marks
- SCANSION
- novel in which there is much of the supernatural for blood-chilling, spine-tingling effect
- GOTHIC NOVEL
- metaphorical compound word used in poetry for, or in addition to, the normal name for a person or thing i.e "wave-skimmer" for boat
- KENNING
- story which is consided to be based on fact, although proof of its truth is unavailable
- LEGEND
- a story in which interesting details about a place are emphasized, such as its customs or dialect
- LOCAL COLOR STORY
- term applied to poetry that treats trivial subjects in an epic manner
- MOCK-HEROIC
- story, usually involving the supernatural, which explains some practice, belief, or natural phenomenon
- MYTH
- a story of any kind
- NARRATIVE
- form of Realism where man is considered just another animal governed almost entirely by nature, by physical and chemical impulses
- NATURALISM
- extended prose fiction is which characters and actions are similar to those of real life
- NOVEL
- a short novel, usually of less that 40,000 words
- NOVELETTE
- term applied to attitude that is detached, impersonal, unprejudiced in its approach of a subject
- OBJECTIVE
- poem written for a special occasion
- OCCASIONAL POEM
- dealing with shepards or with simple life
- PASTORAL
- story of a rogue, usually told in first person
- PICARESQUE
- term applied to the proper operation of justice so that good is rewarded and evil is punished
- POETIC JUSTICE
- the right of a poet to depart from the normal for purpose of effect
- POETIC LICENSE
- a brief summary
- PRECIS
- a play written primarily to delineate some problem of human relationships as they are affected by social laws and customs
- PROBLEM PLAY
- an introduction to a play, novel, or poem
- PROLOGUE
- writings that stress "a message" usually at the expense of fact or logic
- PROPAGANDA