Liturature Exam Review
terms/vocab 4 Shakespere and regular.
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- simile
- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
- Elizabethian Theater
- all the plays, sonets, etc. written in the period when queen elizabeth was on the thrown
- allusion
- a reference to something you're supposed to know
- metaphor
- (allusion) a term or phrase that is used to compare something to something ex: "An angry woman is like a muddy fountain, no one wants it!"
- aside
- a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
- dialouge
- actual spoken words by the actors in the scene
- cast of characters
- the actors in a play
- theme
- the subject matter of a story,book,movie,play,etc.
- symbol
- something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
- topic sentence
- a sentence that states the topic of its paragraph
- rhyme
- correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
- stanza vs. line
- stanza- a group of lines line- a part of a stanza
- run-on line
- (an enjambment) no punctuation at the end of a line
- Globe Theater
- where Shakespere preformed and composed all his work
- onomatopoeia
- a word meaning a soung ex:boom
- Blackfriar's Play House
- the playhouse in Staunton, shows The Taming, Henry The IV, etc.
- scanning
- Marking the stressed and unstressed syllables and the number of feet in a line of poetry to determine if the rhythm of the poem has a regular, measurable pattern
- plot
- the thing/chain of events going on in a story
- character (round vs. flat)
- a person or animal in a book,play,movie,etc. that has many (round or not many (flat) character traits
- motivation
- something that someone makes someone else do ex: Petruchio "tames" Kate
- props
- All objects onstage except the scenery
- end stopped-line (vs. run-on)
- the last line & end of a poem,movie,etc.
- tragedy
- drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance
- metamorphasis
- changing from one thing to another
- rhythm
- recurring at regular intervals
- stage directions
- Parenthetical explanations telling the actor where to move or how to speak with regard to his or her dialogue in a play's script.
- climax
- the top/most interesting point of a story
- refrain
- a chorus
- comedy
- a comic incident or series of incidents
- narrator
- a person who explains the story,movie,book,etc. in the background
- paraphrase
- saying something someone else said in your own words
- thesis statement
- an explanation of the topic
- conflict
- theproblem in a story (person vs. fate; person vs.person; person vs. society; person vs. god/chance; etc.)
- prose vs. poetry
- prose-songs, talking, essays, etc.; rhyming (sometimes), sonets, peoms, can be songs, etc.
- allteration
- two or more wors in a tounge twister ex: "feathered fur"
- figurative language (tactile,gustatory,auditory,olfactory,visual)
- t-touch; g-taste; a-hear; o-smell; v-see
- setting
- the place where the story takes place