English Grade 9 St. Augestine

Pregunta	Respuesta
Aside	A brief comment made by a character when others are on stage, but do not hear it. The character is speaking to himself and the audience only.
Comic Relief	The use of humorous characters, speeches or scenes in a serious or tragic work, generally considered to have been included to provide the audience with some contrasting "relief" from the serious action of the play.
Dramatic Irony	This occurs when a speech or situation on the stage has one meaning for the character involved and a deeper or opposite meaning for the audience.
Foreshadowing	References, signs, or suggestions as to what events or consequences are to come.
Parallelism	The fact that characters and events in the earlier part of the play are balanced against those of the latter part
Pathetic Fallacy	The representation of nature as being in sympathy with or affected by those deeds of a man
Pathos	From the Greek root word for "suffering" or "deep feeling". Pathos occurs when the audience experiences emotions of pity, tenderness, empathy, or sorrow.
Soliloquy	A speech spoken by a character who is alone on stage. The words spoken out loud, but to him/herself and the audience. The character's inner most thoughts are usually expressed in soliloquies.
Supense	A state of anxious uncertainty created when the playwright raises certain possibilities but withholds the outcome
Blank Verse	A type of poetry which uses a particular pattern of rhythm, but which does not rhyme
Hyperbole	Deliberate exaggeration for effect
Imagery	A passage which appeals to the readers' senses (especially sight) In order to express a particular idea. The creation of pictures in the reader's imagination. In Shakespeare there are usually dominant patterns of imagery.
Metaphor	A implied or indirect comparison without like or as. identifies one thing as another in order to express a certain idea or feeling.
Pentameter	A specific rhyming pattern, in which each line of verse has five "feet" (or beats) IAMBIC PENTAMETER refers to lines of a pentameter in which the foot falls on every second syllable.
Personification	A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or certain abstract ideas are endowed with human qualities or a human form.
Pun	A play on words based on similarity in sound and difference in meaning. It is often used as a source of humour
Rhyming Couplet	Two consecutive rhyming lines often used by a Shakespeare to mark the end of a sequence of action or at the end of a scene
Simile	A direct, poetic comparison between dissimilar things using "like" or "as" (or "sometimes than" or "as if"
Allusion	A reference to persons, places, books, myths, etc., which the reader is expected to recognize.
Contrast	The juxtaposition of opposites such that each highlights the differences in the other (also called a Foil)
Irony	Irony of action refers to situation in which the outcome is different from or opposite to that which the reader/audience was led to expect.
Verbal Irony	Irony of speech (or verbal irony) refers to lines in which the intended meaning is the opposite of the literal meaning of the words used. (Sarcasm is common form of verbal irony.)
Nemesis	The principle of retributive justice. (it is the principle by which "one gets what one deserves".)
Oxymoron	The juxtaposition or combination of two opposite or contradictory ideas. (e.g., jumbo shrimp or bittersweet)
Paradox	An apparent contradiction or illogicality in a statement which upon closer examination turns out to contain truth.

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