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| Also called storyline. the plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story. |
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| Introduction of the characters, plot, setting. |
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| conflict begins to unfold |
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| a related series of incidents in a literary plot that build toward the point of greatest interest. |
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| a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. |
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| The events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place. |
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| time or place in which the piece of literature takes place |
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| the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work. |
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| a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary. |
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| a person who is opposed to, struggles against, or competes with another; opponent; adversary. |
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| Conflict and the four types |
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| to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition;______________ Protag Vs. Antag/ Protag Vs. Self /Protag vs. society/ protag vs. nature |
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| to show or indicate beforehand |
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| figurative description or illustration |
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| the attribution of a personal nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions |
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| comparison using like or as |
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| The comparison of one thing to another WITHOUT the use of like or as |
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| a metaphor that is extended through a stanza or entire poem, often by multiple comparisons of unlike objects or ideas |
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| a particular quality, way of sounding, modulation, or intonation of the voice as expressive of some meaning, feeling, spirit, etc |
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| a state or quality of feeling at a particular time |
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| he position of the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by the narrator's outlook from which the events are depicted and by the attitude toward the characters. |
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| the telling of a story through one persons (the narrators) eyes |
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| A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms |
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| narrator has unlimited knowledge |
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| overall unifying story within which one or more tales are related |
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| A topic of discourse or discussion |
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| a character that contrasts with another character |
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| an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. |
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| an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does |
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| a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant |
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| irony that is inherent in speeches or a situation of a drama and is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play. |
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| An actor in Elizabethan drama who recites the prologue and epilogue to a play and sometimes comments on the action. |
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| an introductory speech, often in verse, calling attention to the theme of a play. |
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| a poem written in iambic pantameter with 14 lines (3 quatrains and 1 couplet) |
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| self-contradictory effect, |
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| an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem. |
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| repetition on a consonant sound in verse |
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| repetition on vowel sound in non rhyming words |
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| characteristics of a tragedy |
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| -Tells the fall of a worthwhile usually noble characters____-serious in tone and importance____-focuses on a herso whos potential is great but whose efforts to realize that potential are thwarted by fate___-plot is dominated by fate___-contains events that are set by a decision that is often an error in judgment___- ends in catastrophe usually death of main character |
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| -born into nobility___-responsible for his own fate___-endowed with a tragic flaw___-doomed to make serious error in judgment___-falls from great heights or high esteem___-realizes he made irreversible mistake___-faces and accepts death with honor___-meets a tragic death___-audience is affected by pity or fear |
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| A quality of the tragic hero that is normally a good quality but causes his or her downfall. |
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| an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action. |
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| a part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience |
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| when a character voices his or her thoughts while alone on stage |
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| An indirect reference to some piece of knowledge not actually mentioned. Allusions usually come from a body of information that the author presumes the reader will know. For example, an author who writes, “She was another Helen,” is alluding to the proverbial beauty of Helen of Troy. |
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| any drama written as verse to be spoken |
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| a word agreeing with another in terminal sound |
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| Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse |
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| in poetry, a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses |
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| the pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal, ababbcc. |
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| common meter of verse consisting of ten stressed and unstressed syllables |
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| unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter most |
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| The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction |
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