Lit Devices #4

a long speech given by one character in a play when they are alone, expressing their thoughts/feelings to the audience

• Aside

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Prologue

an introduction to a work of literature that is set apart from the rest of the work

• Monologue

• Tragedy

• Aside

• Prologue

elements of humor injected into a more serious moment in a play or into a more serious literary work as a whole

• Aside

• Comic Relief

• Chorus

• Tragic Hero

a group of people acting as one character who speak and move together, commenting on the events/plot of a play

• Chorus

• Plot

• Tragic Hero

• Comic Relief

a noble character who does everything right but whose jealousy gets in the way has a ______ ______ of jealousy.

• Foreshadowing

• Tragic Hero

• Tragedy

• Tragic Flaw

Hamlet in Hamlet: He wants to be just, but in doing so causes many untimely deaths

• Tragedy

• Tragic Hero

• Tragic Flaw

• Comic Relief

a rhyme scheme in poetry where each line has ten syllables and every second syllable is stressed (“Two HOUSE-holds BOTH a-LIKE in DIG-ni-TY”)

• Iambic Pentameter

• Aside

• Prologue

• Tragedy

a genre of literature that involves a main character who finds they are victim to some horrible fate at the end of the story

• Tragic Flaw

• Tragic Hero

• Comic Relief

• Tragedy

Ms. Houseman standing up on the stage in the PAC, talking to a group of people about her love of poetry

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Prologue

• Aside

Poetry written in iambic pentameter (like Romeo & Juliet) that doesn't have rhyming lines

• Flashback

• 3rd Person Omniscient

• Blank Verse

• Direct Characterization