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| a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience or to another character. By convention the audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. ... An aside is usually a brief comment, rather than a speech, |
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| an event that occurs, in relation to your protagonist, near to the beginning of your story, which sets that story moving in a different direction. |
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| series of events that lay down breadcrumbs, ask questions and set roadblocks and conflicts |
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| When the main character comes face to face with the essential conflict |
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| the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax. |
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| end of story where loose ends are wrapped up |
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| to go back in time to something that happened earlier |
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| When you go forward in time to something that happens later |
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| Character or force opposite of protagonist |
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| a literary term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. |
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| a literary device used in plays and novels to introduce a comic scene between tragic scenes. |
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| a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse |
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| a character who is presented as a contrast to a second character so as to point to or show to advantage some aspect of the second character. |
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| a long speech by one person addressed to other characters |
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| a self-contradicting word or group of words (as in Shakespeare's line from Romeo and Juliet, "Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!") |
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| a literary device that is also known as a “play on words.” Puns involve words with similar or identical sounds but with different meanings. |
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| a long speech in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while alone upon the stage |
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| A sonnet (pronounced son-it) is a fourteen-line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme. Often, sonnets use iambic pentameter: five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables for a ten-syllable line Typically, the English sonnet explores romantic love. Its rhyme scheme is as follows: |
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| the beat and pace of a poem |
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| The basic unit of measurement in poetry. A foot usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable. |
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| the rhythmic pattern of a poetic line |
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| occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don't. |
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| the irony of something happening that is very different to what was expected |
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| a statement in which the speaker's words are incongruous with the speaker's intent. |
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