Vocab Review Set 1
Terms
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- reference to persons, places, etc which reader is spsd to recognize (biblical, historical)
- ALLUSION
- term for something historically out of place
- ANACHRONISM
- brief account of an interesting, often amusing, incident
- ANECDOTE
- a note that explains/comments on a part of a text
- ANNOTATION
- author unknown
- ANONYMOUS
- character in conflict with the protagonist
- ANTAGONIST
- action which occured before the narrative begins (Hester's pregnancy)
- ANTECEDENT ACTION
- collections of writings in one book
- ANTHOLOGY
- an event less imprt than the next event, when something does not meet expectations, series in the reverse order of importance
- ANTICLIMAX
- use of balanced structure to emphasize comparison or contast
- ANTITHESIS
- the final event in a story that resolves conflict, also the 5th act of an Elizabethan play`
- CATASTROPHE
- act of making a "picture" of a character
- CHARACTER PORTRAYAL
- highest point of interest/ emotional intensity, where complication ceases and resolution begins, series in order of importance
- CLIMAX
- struggle between opposing forces (ex. internal v external)
- CONFLICT
- group of related incidents forming a definite part of plot of a drama
- EPISODE
- process of giving reader necessary information about story before the story starts
- EXPOSITION
- name for stories with imaginary people and events
- FICTION
- hinting to an upcoming event
- FORESHADOWING
- literary works similiar in form, style, content, or purpose
- GENRE
- plan of author to bring characters through conflict to inevitable conclusion
- PLOT
- formal summary of the chief points in a play or work
- ARGUMENT
- comment made by player in a drama which is spsd to be audible only to audience, similiar to soliloquoy but player is not alone on stage
- ASIDE
- story of a person's life by himself
- AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- story of a person's life
- BIOGRAPHY
- expurgate a piece of writing
- BOWDLERIZE
- form of lit that mocks by treating a serious subject in trivial style, or vice versa
- BURLESQUE
- picture, description in which outstanding characteristics are overdrawn
- CARICATURE
- purification of the emotions of the audience through experience of pity/fear gained from watching a tragedy
- CATHARSIS
- historical account of events in the order they happened
- CHRONICLE
- used to denote Greek&Roman authors and their works and is applied to those who imitate their style`
- CLASSICAL
- a trite phrase, one that has lost its force throught overuse
- CLICHE
- includes all the ideas that are suggested by the term
- CONNOTATION
- part of a passage in which a word or expression occurs and which helps to explain the meaning of the word/ex
- CONTEXT
- "god out of the machine" improbable method used by a writer to bring his plot to the desired solution
- DEUS EX MACHINA
- narrative which, like the novel, carries its main characters thru plot but is brief, concerns a single crisis, and creates a single impression
- SHORT STORY
- character whom one expects to find in a particular type of fiction
- STOCK CHARACTER
- position from which something is observed, a matter is considered, a story told
- POINT OF VIEW
- term applied to a piece of writing which appeals to people of every age
- UNIVERSALITY
- a quality of seeming to be true
- VERISIMILITUDE
- formal list of books, mags, articles, etc about a particular subject or by a certain author
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- form of composition that portrays life and characters through dialogue and action, intended for the stage
- DRAMA
- drama where protagonist is overcome in catastrophe, usually death, thru a tragic flaw or forces beyond the cntrl of protagonist
- TRAGEDY
- form of drama where protagonist overcomes the obstacles, usually social in nature
- COMEDY
- comedy in which main plot is serious and might lead to catastrophe, but ends happily for the protagonist
- TRAGICOMEDY
- comedy primarily intended to make people laugh
- FARCE
- comedy focusing on vices of society to ridicule
- SATIRICAL COMEDY
- when protagonist, no matter how dissolute, reforms in the end
- SENTIMENTAL COMEDY
- a play in which an excess of one of the "humours" (blood, phlegm, etc) governs the protagonist, with caricatures rather than characters
- COMEDY OF HUMOURS
- commedy where artificialities of a sophisicated society are exposed and satirized, plot is less imprt than characters
- COMEDY OF MANNERS
- form of comedy in which reality is disregarded and fanciful world and situations predominate
- FANTASY
- highly sensational or romantic play in which reality is suspended to give the audience thrills or to create emotional excitement
- MELODRAMA
- drama based on historical events
- CHRONICLE PLAY
- medieval drama which presented stories from the Bible, usually centering about the redemption of man
- MYSTERY PLAY
- medieval drama which related stories about the lives of the saints and the miracles which they performed
- MIRACLE PLAY
- type of allegorical drama in which characters were such as charity, faith, etc, struggle between virtue and vice
- MORALITY PLAY
- farcical type of short drama designed to be in between acts of a miracle or morality play, or even between courses at a banquet
- INTERLUDE
- spectacular drama w/ a loosely contructed allegorical plot, much singing/dancing/ornate costumes
- MASQUE
- dramatic poetry intended primarily for reading rather than production
- CLOSET DRAMA
- equivalent to novel v. short story, should deal with a single crisis in the life of a single character
- ONE-ACT PLAY
- people of the drama, list of chracters usually found immediately following title of play
- DRAMATIS PERSONAE