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Allegory | A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. |
Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. |
Antagonist | A character or force against which another character struggles. |
Aside | Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play. |
Assonance | The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose |
Catastrophe | The action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the denouement or falling action of a play. |
Characterization | The means by which writers present and reveal character. Although techniques of characterization are complex, writers typically reveal characters through their speech, dress, manner, and actions. |
Chorus | A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. |
Climax | The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. |
Comedy | A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better. |
Connotation | The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. |
Denouement | The resolution of the plot of a literary work. |
Figurative language | A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. |
Flashback | An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action. |
Hyperbole | A figure of speech involving exaggeration. |
Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. |
Metaphor | A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. |
Onomatopoeia | The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. |
Pathos | A quality of a play's action that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character. |
Personification | The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. |
Protagonist | The main character of a literary work |
Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. |
Simile | A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. |
Soliloquy | A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. |
Stage direction | A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play. |
Syntax | The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue. |
Tragic Hero | A privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering. |
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