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

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

• Monologue

• Tragedy

• Aside

• Prologue

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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

• Foreshadowing

• Tragic Hero

• Tragedy

• Tragic Flaw

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

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

• Tragedy

• Tragic Hero

• Tragic Flaw

• Comic Relief

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

• Flashback

• 3rd Person Omniscient

• Blank Verse

• Direct Characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D