English I Spring Final Review

In this type of irony, the audience or reader knows information that characters do not.

A stanza of four lines.

The regular pattern of stressed, unstressed syllables that can establish the rhythm of a poem.

Pattern of end rhyme, marked by using a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme.

The central character in a story.

Has three feet

Descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the five senses.

A type of metaphor that compares two things at length and in various ways throughout the poem.

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration for dramatic effect.

The voice that communicates with the reader in a poem.

Most of Shakespeare's characters speak in

The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.

Written to be performed by actors in front of an audience.

The suggested or implied meanings associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition.

Poetry that follows fixed rules, such as sonnets, haiku, and ballads.

Used by poets to enhance the musical quality of their work.

A stanza of eight lines.

Language used for descriptive effect, often used to imply meaning.

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of neighboring or nearby words.

The major divisions in a play are further divided into

A weakness within a character in a play that leads to his or her downfall.

A humorous use of words that are similar in sound or of a word with several meanings.

A kind of comedy that ridicules people, practices, or institutions to reveal their failings.

A contrast between appearance and reality or between what is expected and what happens.

Portrayed by one actor, who often spoke the prologue and the epilogue to a play.

In poetry, the emphasis of certain sounds helps to create feeling.

The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words.

Rows of words in a poem that may or may not form sentences.

The repeated use of a sound, word, phrase, line, or even an entire stanza.

Drama that deals with light and amusing subjects or with serious subjects in a light manner.

When two words have different vowel sounds but share a single consonant sound, brick and clock.

The literal, or dictionary, meaning of a word.

A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms.

A form of literary expression that emphasizes the line rather than sentence.

A character says something to the audience that other characters are not supposed to hear.

Focuses a reader's attention by making something seem less important than it really is.

Writing that is similar to everyday speech and language.

A moment of sudden realization of the true meaning of a situation, person, or object.

The "paragraphs" of poetry.

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using like or as.

Has four feet

Any object, person, place, or experience that has meaning but also stands for something else.

Author's attitude toward his or her subject matter.

The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry, regular or irregular.

Two words in the same line that rhyme.

Instructions that describe sets, props, costumes, sound effects, lighting, and characters.

Short and musical poems that express a speaker's personal thoughts and feelings.

The continuation of a sentence from one line of a poem into the next.

A poem's arrangement of words, lines, images, and ideas.

A character who provides a strong contrast to another character.

A writer's word choice.

The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds & any succeeding sounds in two or more words.

Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza arrangement.

A set of two rhyming lines.

The main message of a literary work, generally a commentary on human nature as a whole.

The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form.

A traditional Japanese form of poetry that has three lines and seventeen syllables.

The analysis of the meter in a line of poetry.

A character speaks directly to another character or to himself or herself.

A stanza of six lines.

Has five feet

This type of rhyme occurs when the sounds of words are similar but not identical.

A figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using like or as.

A figure of speech that gives human qualities to nonhuman things.

Conveys the speaker's personality and helps define his or her perspective.

A main character in a play who suffers a downfall.

A character speaks his or her innermost thoughts when no other characters are on stage.

This form of poetry is considered free verse, as it does not follow established rules.

A list of characters listed at the beginning of a play, sometimes with brief descriptions.

The basic unit of stressed and unstressed syllables used to describe rhythm in poetry.

Conversation between two characters in a literary work.

In plays, the major divisions, similar to paragraphs in a short story or stanzas in a poem.

A kind of comedy that places flat, one-dimensional characters in ridiculous situations.

Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines.

The organizing principle that shapes a poem.

A character says the opposite of what he or she really means.

Like the Prologue from Romeo and Juliet, a poem of fourteen rhyming lines of equal length.

A play in which a main character suffers a downfall.

A statement that appears to be contradictory but is actually true.

The character who opposes the central character in a s story.

A foot that contains an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

The outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected.

Word or expression that is not meant to be taken literally.