Dramtic Literary Devices- Grade 10 English
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| Drama | show 🗑
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| Comedy | show 🗑
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| Tragedy | show 🗑
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| show | One of the main divisions of the play . Shakespeare favoured the five act structure for his play.
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| show | A character reveals his/her true feelings by directly addressing the audience. Usually occurs when the character is alone on stage and provides an opportunity for puns and foreshadowing.
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| show | A character or group of characters who give comments on the play which link acts or foreshadow coming events.
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| Exeunt | show 🗑
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| Prologue | show 🗑
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| show | A short poem with 14 lines and a strict rhyme scheme. There are several types of sonnets, each with its own different rhyme scheme. a/b/a/b/ c/d/c/d/ e/f/e/f/ g/g is the sonnet found in Shakspearen sonnets
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| Rhyming couplet | show 🗑
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| Allusion | show 🗑
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| Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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| show | They are the play writer's way of creating an atmosphere in which to tell his story. Imagery is the recurrent use of "picture words". It provides and imaginative, yet vivid, specific description.
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| show | Exaggeration used to create a specific effect.
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| show | A figure of speech used to imply rather than directly express a comparison between 2 objects .
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| show | figure of speech used to directly express a comparison between 2 objects.
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| Paradox | show 🗑
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| Pathetic Fallacy | show 🗑
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| show | A figure of speech in which a quality or idea represented by human qualities or nature is portrayed as having human feelings, intelligence or emotions
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| show | A play on words: used artfully by Shakespeare for a comedy and often creates irony. It is the humorous use of a word or of words which are formed (homographs) or sound alike (homophones) but have different meanings.
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| show | Weakly stating or expressing feelings or ideas for effect
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| show | Is torn by an internal conflict. The hero simply makes a wrong choice which triggers series of negative events. Once the bad decision is made, the hero is to stop the tragedy.
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| show | A negative quality or weakness within the hero. Often leads him to make a poor decision which leads to his downfall. Greed, ambition, indecision, jealousy, blindness and thirst for power are common flaws.
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| show | Excessive pride or self confidence which leads to a downfall. often a tragic flaw of Shakespeare's tragic characters
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| show | Refers to a character who is an archenemy of the protagonist; can be considered the antagonist in a short story.
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| show | Word play - puns, use of satire, intending to entertain
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| show | The portrayal of an incident which arouses feelings of pity and sadness in the reader
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