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- Ryme
- a poem or piece of verse having such correspondence.
- Universal appeal
- something that ahd a wide appeal to a large number of people.
- Tragic Hero
- A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, bring on a tragedy.
- Imagery
- The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
- catastrophe
- the point at which the circumstances overcome the central motive, introducing the close or conclusion.
- Proagonist
- The leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.
- foreshadowing
- to present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand; presage.
- Comic Relief
- An amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, oir to intensify the dramatic action
- Metaphor
- One thing conceived as representing another, a symbol.
- Climax
- The highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something.
- Simile
- A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as.
- aside
- a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intecnded only for the audience.
- ambivalence
- the coexistence within an individual of positive and negative feelings toward the same person, object, or action, simultaneously drawing him or her in opposite directions.
- personification
- a character portrayal or representation in a dramatic or literary work.
- iambic pentameter
- a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foor containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable.
- assonance
- the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.
- meter
- the rhythmic element as measured by division into parts of equal time value.
- paradox
- a statement or proposition that seems selft-contradictory or adurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- soliloquy
- the act of talking while or as if alone.
- theme
- a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composititon; topic.
- Antagonist
- THe adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work.
- alliteration
- the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables.
- couplet
- A pari of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length.
- prophesy
- to foretell or predict.
- symbolism
- the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
- irony
- the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.
- blank verse
- unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most frequently used in english dramatic, epic, and reflective verse.
- Tragedy
- A dramatic composition, often in verse, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as a fate or society, to downfall or destruction.
- Equivocation
- an equivocal, ambiguous expression.
- consonance
- the use of the repetition of consonanys or consonant patterns as a rhyming device.