Dramatic, Poetic and Literary Devices

Questão	Responda
Catharsis	A theraputic calmness following a moment of heightened emotional intensity.
Characterisation	The development of a particular traits and qualities within a particular character.
'Corruptio optimi pessima est'	'The corruption of the best becomes the worst.'
Courtly Love	A formal system of love and courtship, governed by gender stereotypes.
Decorum	The tradition of using a particular, appropriate verse form.
Denouement	The conclusion of a play.
Dramatic irony	Where an audience is painfully aware of information unavailable to a character.
Elision	Omission of syllables for the purposes of metrical regularity.
Episodic	A play that is made up of many short events, rather than one developing plot.
Eponymous	A play that is named after a character.
Genre	The accordance of a play to a particular, expected set of artistic stylings.
Hamartia	The tragic hero's tragic flaw.
Heroic couplet	A rhyming couplet within iambic pentameter.
Malapropism	A misuse of a word, mistaking it for a similarly sounding word.
Mankind figure	A character that encompasses the flaws of man
Meta theatre	Where the playwright draws attention to the artificial nature of the theatre.
Miracle play	A dramatic representation of biblical stories
Morality plays	A play with a didactic purpose.
Parody	A play that reflects aspects of another, often in a mocking manner.
Pathos	A heightening of emotional intensity that intends to evoke pity from the audience, for a particular character.
Pertipeteia	A sudden change of fortune.
Psychomachia	The conflict of virtue and vice in a battle for the soul.
Repartee	A playful and witty retort.
Rhetoric	A character's manner of emphasis within their dialogue.
Soliloquy	Where a character speaks alone, to no other characters.
Solipsism	The philosophical belief that only the individual exists.
Suspension of disbelief	Where an audience willingly departs from reality in embracing the rules of the dramatic universe before them.
Tragedy	See Aristotle.
Unities	The play must: occur within the same place, the same 24 hours, follow one single plot.
Allegory	A plot line that parallels another in themes.
Ambiguity	An unresolvable aspect of a work.
Ambivilance	The coexistence of two opposing thoughts within one's mind.
Aphorism	Brief statement of wisdom, often seemingly simplistic.
Connotation	An allusion to a concept through employment of representative objects.
Contextuality	Where the goings on during a particular era add to one's interpretation.
Diction	The choice of vocabulary from a particular semantic field.
Didactic	An intention to impart a moral.
Foreshadowing	A reference to a later event that is unobvious when first seen.
Hyperbole	An exaggeration.
Intertextuality	The existence of content from one particular work within another.
Irony	The expression of one's meaning by expressing what appears the exact opposite.
Metaphor	Where one object is said to be another.
Pathetic fallacy	The attribution of human feelings to other objects and animals - like a reversed personification.
Personification	The attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects or animals.
Postmodernism	Words have no innate meaning, their connotations are developed through contextual association.
Plurality	Where a range of interpretations for an aspect of a text exist.
Similie	Where an object or person is said to have qualities "like" another.
Stoicism	Happiness can only be achieved by accepting one's ultimate lack of power over their fate.
Verisimilitude	Where objects or individuals are made to appear as they would in the real world.
Alliteration	The repeated utterance of consonant sounds.
Archaic language	Aged vocabulary
Caesura	A pause within a line of speech.
End-stopping	A pause at the end of a line.
Epistrophe	Where the same phrase is repeated at the end of successive lines.
Juxtaposition	Where to concepts or images are placed beside each other to enhance their contrasts.
Polysyllabic	Words that consist of three or more syllables.
Rhythm	Syllabic construction.
Rhyme	Correspondence of sounds between different words.

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