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Flashcards by John Amalraj, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by John Amalraj
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| Question | Answer |
| 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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