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- Alienation Effect Epic Theatre Use of non-dramatic features (narratives, songs, illustrations, banners etc.) Intention to break theatrical illusion
- Alliteration repetion of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words
- Anagnorisis Recognition moment in play or other literary work when a character makes a critical discovery about him or herself
- Apostrophe Words spoken to an absent or imaginary person to an object or abstract idea
- Aristotelian Unities Drama Theory Unity of action, place and time in a given play
- Assonance repetition of similar vowel sounds
- Catharsis Purging Emotional cleansing of the action upon characters on stage And/ Or the audience
- Closed Drama Clear plot development from rising to falling action and the adherence to the Aristotelian Unities
- Comedy Stage-play or narratives with a happy ending
- Consonance Stylistic device characterized by repitition of the same consonant Two or more times in short succession
- Couplet Pair of lines that share the same rhyme and have the same meter
- Cultural Materialism systematic study of texts reconstructs "structure of feeling" (Raymond Williams) all forms of culture not only the culture of past but extends into and includes out perspective into it
- Epic Theatre Didactic form of theatre Bertholt Brecht, 1920s Germany rejects ideas of unity inspired by Aristotle prevent audience from sympathizing with characters and being drawn into the events on stage rejects naturalist forms of staging and acting
- Foot Smallest rythmic unit in poetry (two or more syllables)
- Gynocritics Term coined by the critic Elaine Showalter Study of women as writers History, styles, themes, genres & structure of women's writing concern with female creativity female writer's careers female literary history
- Hamartia In tragedy, the protagonist's tragic flaw
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- Iambic Pentameter consists of 10 syllables 5 rythmic units ("feet") second syllable is stressed
- Metaphor figure of speech creates analogy between two things or ideas metaphorical word replaces some other word
- New Historicism Cultural Poetics Study of a broad written and visual traces of a particular culture as a mutually intelligible network of signs
- Octave In Italian Sonnet, the first eight lines in a poem that share one rhyme scheme
- Ode Type of lyrical verse structured in 3 major parts (strophe, antistrophe and epode) elaborate poem praising/ glorifying and event or individual or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally
- Open Drama All drama that breaks with the structure of traditional plays (rising/falling action) and Aristotelian norm of unity
- Peripeteia Reversal circumstances or turning point in drama
- Personification type of metaphor thing/ abstraction is represented as a person
- Plurimediality Simultaneous presence of one or more media in an artwork
- Postcolonialism critical movement in 1990s claim that great literature has a timeless and universal significance not a discipline but "problematic" that emphasises that minority cultures have been suppressed of the West Expansion of literary canon and introduction of new fields of study
- Quatrain stanza or poem consisting of four lines
- Scansion analysis of metrical patterns of verse (rhythm and form)
- Semiotics study of signs, symbols and sign processes
- Sestet in Italian sonnet sestet are the six lines following the octave different rhyme scheme than the octave
- Sibilance repeated use of sibilant sounds such as /s/ and /sh/ Specific form of consonance
- Simile figure of speech that compares two different objects, concepts or words by employing the words "like", "as", or "than"
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- Sonnet poem of fourteen lines follows a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure These conventions have been modified by poets
- Stage directions directions in a play script specifying the quality of physical action, lighting or sound effects sometimes also the set and character features
- Stanza unit within a larger poem grouping of lines, set off by a space usually with a fixed pattern of metre and rhyme
- Structuralism critical method that developed in the early 20th century in the social sciences, literary studies and linguistics response to an increasing sense of fragmentation and doubt about language’s ability to adequately represent the world Based on a belief in linguistic constructionism Emphasis on the concept of the system as a complete, self-regulating entity and the relationship of individual items within the system (e.g. individual texts – groups of texts or genres).
- Tragedy drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow typically as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances Also the genre made up of such works.
- Volta “turn” shift or point of dramatic change in a poem In a sonnet, the volta usually marks a shift in thought (often from question to answer or problem to solution) after the octave.