The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
Terms
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- anachronism
- used deliberately to distance events and to underline a universal verisimilitude and timeless to prevent something being "dated"
- monologue
- a speech by one character in a play, story, or poem
- sonnet
- a fourteen-line lyric poem, usally written in rhymed iambic pentameter
- rhetoric
- 1) the undue use of exaggeration or display 2) the art of science of all specialised literay uses of languages in prose or verse, including figures of speech
- tragic flaw
- the character defeat the causes the downfall of the protangonist of tragedy
- tragedy
- is work of lit. esp. a play that results in a catastrophe for the main character
- blank verse
- a verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
- cosmic irony
- the idea of fate, destiny, or a god controls and toys with human hopes and expectations/ or that the universe is indifferent to the plight of man
- pathos
- the quality of power in an actual life experience on in lit., music, speech, or other forms or expression or envoking a feeling of pity or compassion
- logos
- a rational principle that governs and develops the universe
- catharsis
- the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions esp. through certain kinds of art as tragedry of music
- drama
- a story written to be preformed by actors
- Freytag's Pyramind
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- motivation
- 1) the act or an instance or motivating 2) the state of condition of being motivated 3) something that motivates inducement, incentive
- aside
- a short speech by an actor in a play, usally to the audience where other actors can't hear it
- verbal irony
- words are used to suggest the opposite of what is meant
- false analogy
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- Italian/ Petrarchan Sonnet
- sonnet consists of an octave (eight-line stanza) and a sestet (six-line stanza) often the octave rhymes (abbaabba) and sestet rhymes (cdecde) /octave asks a question and the sestet answers the question
- tragic hero
- a lit. character who makes a error in judgement or has a fatal flaw that combined with fate and external force brings on tragedy
- dramatic irony
- there is an contradiction b/w what a character thinks and what the readers or audience knows to be true
- melodrama
- a dramatic play that does not observe the laws of cause and effect and exaggerates emotion and emphasizes plot but lacks in characterzation
- foil
- a character who provides a contrast to another character (Benvolio & Tybalt)
- convention (literary)
- 1) a meeting or formal assembly for discusion of the actions of common concern 2) a rule, method, or practice established by usage (custom)
- irony
- the general term for lit. techniques that protray differenced between appearence and reality or expection and result
- script
- the manuscript or one of various copies of the written text of a play, motion picture, or a television broadcast
- caesura
- a break or pause in a line of poetry, dictates usally by the natural rhythm of the language
- analogy
- a similarity b/w like features of two things on which comparison maybe based
- farce
- a light humorous, play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully explated situation rather than upon the development of character
- iambic pentameter
- a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing on unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
- comedy
- a play, movie, etc. of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending
- soliloquy
- is a long speech expressing the thoughts of a charcter alone on stage
- Elizabethan/ Shakespearean Sonnet
- sonnet consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a couplet (two-lines) usally rhyming (abab cdcd efef gg)
- situational irony
- an event occurs that directly contradicts the expectations of the charcters, the readers, or the audience
- ethos
- the moral element in dramatic lit. that determines a character's actions rather than his or her thought or emotion
- iamb/ iambic
- a foot with one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in the word "again"
- pentameter
- a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet / two dactyls, one long syllables, two more dactyls and another long syllable
- tragicomedy
- a dramatic or other lit. compostion combining elements of both tragedy and comedy