Literary Terms / Group 2

the elements in a work of literature that apply to a specific time, culture, age, or gender.

• monologue
• particularity
• aside

a speech often in verse addressed to the audience by an actor at the end of a play.

• epilogue
• couplet
• aside

poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter.  Free verse seeks to capture the rhythms of speech.

• blank verse
• epilogue
• free verse

two characters that are opposites in personality and purpose who serve as a contrast or challenge to one another.

• foil characters
• monologue
• drama

a long speech by one character in a play with other characters on stage at the same time.

• epilogue
• free verse
• monologue

a recognition and heightening of the difference between appearance and reality; Situational irony occurs when events turn out differently than expected; dramatic irony occurs when the audience or reader of a drama has important knowledge that a main character lacks.

• irony
• satire
• monologue

words or phrases to be used or interpreted in their actual sense; the standard meaning.

• literal
• drama
• conflict

poetic term for the form Shakespeare wrote his lines of  Romeo and Juliet and most of his other plays.  These lines are ten syllables long.

• inference
• conceit
• iambic pentameter

words/phrases not meant to be used or interpreted in their actual sense.

• figurative
• inference
• dramatic irony

a statement, often metaphorical, that seems to be contradictory, but has a valid meaning. Used to emphasize ideas or to create irony.

• paradox
• inference
• figurative