Vocabulary Terms and Mythology
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- tragedy
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- protagonist
- the main character
- falling action
- all action that takes place after the climax
- denouement
- the falling action or final revelations in the plot
- rhyme scheme
- the pattern of rhyming words
- figurative language
- the use of figures of speech to express ideas
- climax
- the high point in the plot, after which there is falling action
- consonance
- the repetition of a consonant at the end of two or more words
- analogy
- a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike.
- ellipsis
- the omission of part of a word
- repitition
- a poetic device that uses the repeating of words, sounds, phrases, or sentences
- poetic devices
- words with harmonious sounds including assonance, consonance, alliteration, repetition, and rhyme
- foil
- a character who through contrast reveals the characteristics of another character
- sensory image
- language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the five senses
- assonance
- the repetition of vowel sounds in two or more words that do not rhyme
- extended metaphor
- a metaphor that is elaborated on the developed in several pharses or sentences
- epithet
- a word or phrase describing a quality of a person, place, or thing that is repeataed throughout a work
- myth
- a fictional tale about gods or heroes
- epic
- a long narrative peom about the adventures of gods or a hero
- irony
- the opposite of what is expected
- rhyme
- words with identical sounds, but different spellings
- allusion
- a reference to a well-known person, place, event, work of art, myth,or religion
- onomatopoeia
- a figure of speech that uses words to imitate sound
- rising action
- the path of the plot leading to the climax
- essay
- a short nonfiction work about a sepcific subject
- metaphor
- a figure of speech where one thing is said to be another thing
- pun
- a play on words
- antagonist
- a character, institution, group, or force that is in conflict with the protagonist
- simile
- a figure of speech that compares two things that are not alike using the words like as or than
- alliteration
- use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
- what are the three parts to a quote sandwich?
- Context, quote, and explanation
- hyperbole
- a figure of speech that uses exaggeration
- theme
- a central idea
- conflict
- the struggle between characters and other characters, forces of nature, or outside forces beyond their control
- archetypes
- primordial images and symbols that occur in literature,
- personification
- a figure of speech that attributes human qualities to an inanimate object
- resolution
- finding a solution to a problem
- What is the definition of quotation?
- Any word or senctence or passage taken from a written text
- couplet
- a pair of rhyming lines in the same meter
- Whch side was Paris on? Trojan or Greek
- Trojan