Quarter 3 Literary Terms
Here's a quizlet for this quarter's flashcards in Ms.Gorham's Class. Study for the test we get when we come back from spring break. Feel Free to tell me an suggestions and corrections for these flashcards. Thanks!
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- act
- a section of a play
- symbol
- anything that stands for or represents anything else
- scene
- a section of uninterrupted action in the act of a drama
- haiku
- a 3-line japanese verse form where the first and third lines of a haiku each have 5 syllables and the 2nd line has 7 syllables
- refrain
- a regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song
- end Rhyme
- The words or final syllables at the end of a line of poetry rhyme in a set pattern.
- Free Verse
- poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter
- script
- the written text of a stage play, screenplay, or a broadcast
- Lyric Poem
- a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
- limerick
- a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem w/ a specific meter and rhyme scheme
- history
- The study of the past
- stage directions
- notes included in a drama to describe how the work is to be performed on stage
- tragic flaw
- a weakness in a character
- Internal Rhyme
- rhyming words within lines
- speaker
- the imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem
- tragedy
- a work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character
- Rhyme Scheme
- a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
- hyperbole
- an extravagant exaggeration (ex. mile-high ice cream cones)
- imagery
- a technique that poets use to paint images or word pictures, that appeal to your senses
- extended metaphor
- a metaphor in which several connected comparisons are mad
- onomatopoeia
- the use of words that imitate sounds
- comedy
- a literary work, especially a play, which is light, often humorous, or satirical and ends happily
- simile
- a figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between 2 unlike ideas
- repetition
- the use, more than once, of any element of language-sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, a sentence
- consonance
- recurrence or repetition of consonants especially at the end of stressed syllables
- alliteration
- the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
- personification
- a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
- metaphor
- a figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
- Blank Verse
- an un-rhymed verse
- description
- a portrait, in words, of a person, place,or object
- monologue
- a dramatic sketch performed by one actor
- Concrete Poem
- a poem that is one with a shape that suggests its subject
- verse
- a single line of poetry
- Props
- something used in creating or enhancing an desired effect
- assonance
- the repetition of vowel sounds, especially in a line of poetry
- satire
- use of wit to criticize behavior
- anthropomorphism
- an interpretation of what isn't human or personal in terms of human or person characteristics
- teleplay
- a story prepared for televison production
- comic relief
- a relief from the emotional tension of a drama that is provided by the interposition of a comic episode or element
- ballad
- a short, musical narrative song or poem
- screenplay
- the script and often shooting directions of a story prepared for motion picture production
- Dramatic Poem
- a narrative poem in which one or more characters speak
- dialogue
- a conversation between characters
- stanza
- a group of lines of poetry that usually are similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces
- narrative poem
- a story told in verse
- meter
- a poem's rhythmic pattern
- farce
- a comic play in which authority, order, and morality are at risk and ordinary people are caught up in extraordinary events
- melodrama
- a work (as a movie or play) characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of the plot and physical action over characterization
- catharsis
- a purification or purgation of the emotions primarily through art
- Aside
- an actors speech heard by the audience, but supposedly not by other actors
- playwright
- a person who writes play (ex. Shakespeare)