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| An aside is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or to another character. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. ... An aside is usually a brief comment, rather than a speech, ... |
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| a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory. |
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| the event that sets the main character or characters on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative. |
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| when the conflict begins to take shape and the protagonist starts to face challenges. There are three elements that can contribute to the rising action: suspense, intrigue, and conflict. |
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| turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. |
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| the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax. |
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| a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character. |
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| The overall feeling or atmosphere that the reader feels. |
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literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings.
Example: I have to go change my clothes for the close of the show. or You can tell a dogwood tree by its bark. |
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| a long speech in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while alone upon the stage |
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| An oxymoron is a self-contradicting word or group of words (as in Shakespeare's line from Romeo and Juliet, "Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!") |
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| the act of finding an answer or solution to a conflict, problem, etc. |
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| an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature. |
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| Character or force opposite the protagonist |
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| a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. |
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| Hints or clues about something that is going to happen later in the story |
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| Comparison between two things that uses like or as |
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| Direct comparison that doesn’t use like or as |
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| Giving something nonhuman, human characteristics |
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| the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. |
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| a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program. |
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| Recurring pattern, image, word, phrase (Ibis-death and red/R&J light and dark) |
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| When the audience or reader knows something the characters don’t know. (Example: The audience knows Juliet is in a coma and not dead but the characters on stage don’t.) |
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| When the opposite of what is expected actually happens (man saves money all his life so he can travel the world when he retires and the day he retires he dies./ Romeo goes to the party to see Rosaline and believes that no one could be more beautiful than she is. Then he sees Juliet and Rosaline become a crow because he thinks Juliet is more beautiful.) |
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| Occurs when the literal meaning of what someone says is different from or opposite of what they actually meant (Examples: when there’s a hurricane and someone remarks “what lovely weather were having.”/ Lord Capulet calls the nurse “Lady Wisdom” and a few lines later he calls her a mumbling fool.) |
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| Reflects the writer’s attitude toward the subject matter in a literary work. |
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