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Flashcards by Maham Umer, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Maham Umer
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| ASIDE | - A DRAMATIC CONVENTION IN WHICH A CHARACTER SPEAKS IN SUCH A WAY THAT SOME OF THE CHARACTERS ON STAGE DO NOT HEAR WHAT IS SAID, WHILE THE AUDIENCE DO. - IT MAY ALSO BE DIRECT ADDRESS TO THE AUDIENCE, REVEALING A CHARACTER'S INNER THOUGHTS OR MOTIVES (AS WITH IAGO) |
| BLANK VERSE | - UNRHYMED IAMBIC PENTAMETER - IT ALLOWS A PLEASANT VARIATION OF FULL STRONG STRESSES PER LINE, GENERALLY 4 OR 5, WHILE CONFORMING TO THE BASIC METRICAL PATTERN OF 5 IAMBS. - Ss USES BLANK VERSE TO CONVEY THE INTENSITY OF A CHARACTER'S FEELING. |
| CATALYST | A PERSON OR THING THAT BRINGS ABOUT A CHANGE OR EVENT |
| CATHARSIS | THE PURGING OF THE EFFECTS OF PENT UP EMOTION AND REPRESSED THOUGHTS BY BRINGING THEM TO THE SURFACE OF CONSCIOUSNESS. (THE PURGING OF AN INTENSE EMOTION) |
| CHARACTERISATION | - THE WAY IN WHICH A WRITER CREATES CHARACTERS SO AS TO ATTRACT OR REPEL OUR SYMPATHY. - DIFFERENT KINDS OF LITERATURE HAVE CERTAIN CONVENTIONS OF CHARACTERISATION. - IN JACOBEAN DRAMA THERE WERE MANY STOCK DRAMATIC TYPES WHOSE CHARACTERISTICS WERE FAMILIAR TO THE AUDIENCE (i.e. MACHIAVELLI). |
| CHORUS | - A GROUP OF CHARACTERS IN THE TRAGEDIES OF ANCIENT GREECE WHO REPRESENT THE ORDINARY PEOPLE IN THEIR ATTITUDES TO THE ACTION. - THEY WITNESS ANS COMMENT ON EVENTS, BUT DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THEM. |
| COLLOQUIALISM | A CAUSAL FORM OF EXPRESSION USED IN SPEECH |
| DENOUEMENT | THE FINAL UNFOLDING OF A PLOT; THE POINT AT WHICH THE AUDIENCE'S EXPECTATIONS, BE THEY HOPES OR FEARS, ABOUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE CHARACTERS ARE FINALLY SATISFIED OR DENIED |
| DRAMATIC IRONY | - A FEATURE OF MANY PLAYS, IT OCCURS WHEN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLOT ALLOWS THE AUDIENCE TO POSSESS MORE INFO THAN SOME OF THE CHARACTERS. -IAGO IS THE SOURCE OF MUCH OF THE DRAMATIC IRONY IN OTHELLO, INFORMING THE AUDIENCE OF HIS INTENTIONS. - CHARACTERS MAY ALSO SPEAK IN A DRAMATICALLY IRONIC WAY, SAYING THAT POINTS TO EVENTS TO COME WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THEIR WORDS. |
| FEMINISM | - BROADLY SPEAKING, A POLITICAL MOVEMENT CLAIMING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC EQUALITY OF WOMEN WITH MEN. - FEMINIST CRITICS AND SCHOLARSHIP SEEK TO EXPOSE OR EXPLORE THE MASCULINE 'BIAS' IN TEXTS AND CHALLENGE TRADITIONAL IDEAS ABOUT THEM, CONSTRUCTING AND THEN OFFERING A FEMININE PERSPECTIVE ON WORKS OF ART. - SINCE THE LATE 1960s FEMINIST THEORIES ABOUT LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE, AND FEMINIST INTERPRETATIONS OF TEXTS HAVE MULTIPLIED ENORMOUSLY. - FEMINISM HAS ITS ROOT IN PREVIOUS CENTURIES: EARLY TEXTS CHAMPIONING WOMEN'S RIGHTS. |
| FORESHADOWING | A TECHNIQUE USED TO HINT AT AND PREPARE THE READER FOR THE LATER EVENTS OR A TURNING POINT IN THE ACTION |
| HARMATIA | A GREEK TERM MEANING AN ERROR OF JUDGEMENT |
| HUBRIS | THE SELF INDULGENT CONFIDENCE THAT CAUSES AS TRAGIC HERO TO IGNORE DECREES, LAWS AND WARNINGS OF THE GODS, AND THEREFORE DEFY THEM TO BRING ABOUT HIS OR HER OWN DOWNFALL |
| IDIOM | A CHARACTERISTIC MODE OF EXPRESSION OF A CHARACTER |
| IMAGERY | RELATES TO FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN A PIECE OF LITERATURE (SIMILAR TO SIMILES AND METAPHORS) OR ALL THE WORDS WHICH REFER TO OBJECTS AND QUALITIES WHICH APPEAL TO THE SENSES AND FEELINGS |
| THEMATIC IMAGERY | IMAGERY WHICH RECURS THROUGHOUT A WORK OF ART. FOR EXAMPLE IN OTHELLO, Ss' IMAGES OF THE DEVIL AND INFECTION UNDERPIN THE THEME OF EVIL |
| IRONY | IN SPEECH CONSISTS OF SAYING ONE THING AND MEANING ANOTHER |
| JACOBEAN | REFERS TO THE PLAYS WRITTEN DURING THE REIGN OF JAMES I |
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