Literary Devices for TPS midterm
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- Catharsis
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A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially
pity and fear - Chorus
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The group in a classical Greek drama whose songs and dances present
an exposition of or, in later tradition, a disengaged commentary on the action. - Episode
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An incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger
sequence - Stasimon
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a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of
dialogue - Hamartia
- Tragic flaw
- Peripetia
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A sudden change of events or reversal of circumstances,
especially in a literary work - Anagnorisis
- recognition
- Hubris
- arrogance
- In medias res
- In the middle of a sequence of events
- Epithet
- A term used to characterize a person or thing
- Xenia
- hospitality
- Invocation to the muse
- Prayer to the Muse before an epic
- Epic poetry
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An extended narrative poem in elevated or dignified language,
celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero - Allusion
- indirect reference
- Aside
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A piece of dialogue intended for the audience and supposedly not
heard by the other actors on stage - Apostrophe
- speech to imaginary person
- Blank verse
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Verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually of iambic
pentameter - Connotation
- Common meaning of a word
- Denotation
- The most specific or direct meaning of a word
- Couplet
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A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming
and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic
unit - Figurative language/figure of speech
- all language not taken literally
- Foreshadowing
- To present an indication or a suggestion of beforehand
- Imagery
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- The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects,
actions, or ideas - Metaphor
- Comparison that is not using the words like or as
- Mood
- A state of mind or emotion
- Tone
- Manner of expression
- Tragedy
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A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to
ruin or suffers extreme sorrow - Oxymoron
- combination of 2 opposite words in a phrase
- Pun
- play on words
- Dramatic Irony
- where the audience knows something the actors don't
- Verbal Irony
- spoken irony
- Rhythm
- The patterned, recurring alternations of contrasting elements
- Simile
- Comparison using like or as
- Soliloquy
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form of discourse in which a character
talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without
addressing a listener - Symbol
- Something that represents something else
- Theme
- An implicit or recurrent idea; a motif
- Personification
- giving an inanimate object human characteristics
- Hyperbole
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A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or
effect - Motif
- A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work
- Exposition
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The part of a play that provides the background information
needed to understand the characters and the action - Climax
- - point of greatest intensity or force
- Conflict
- disharmony
- Iambic pentameter
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Consists of one short syllable followed by one long
syllable - Hero
- A person noted for special achievement