English MIdterm 2009
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- a passing reference without explicit identification, to a literary or historical person, place, or event, or to another work or passage (including bible).
- Allusion-
- if the plot is such that the protagonist is pitted against an important opponent, that character is called the....
- Antagonist-
- The beginning of the major conflict of the plot; sometimes called the inciting action.
- Complication-
- the turning point in the plot when a decision or action is undertaken in a n effort to resolve the conflict. At this point the problem often gets worse for the protagonist.
- Crisis-
- involves a situation in a play or a narrative in which the audience or reader shared with the author knowledge of the present or future circumstances of which a character is ignorant; in that situation, the literary character unknowingly acts in a way we
- Dramatic Irony-
- a character who undergoes a radical change, either through a gradual process of development or as the result of a crisis.
- Dynamic Character-
- a scene or narrative (often presented as a memory, a reverie, or a confession by one of the characters) which represents events that happened before the time at which the work opened.
- Flashback-
- overweening or excessive pride. Derived from Greek drama. It is frequently the tragic flaw of the protagonist in literary tragedies.
- Hubris-
- is a conspicuous element, such as a type of event, device, reference, or formula which occurs frequently in literature.
- Motif-
- the chief character in a plot, on which out interest centers, and who frequently encounters the conflict or complication in the plot.
- Protagonist-
- a soliloquy is the act of talking to oneself. In drama, a character alone on the stage utters his or her thought aloud. Playwrights have used this device as a convenient way to convey information about a character’s motives and state of mind to the aud
- Soliloquy-