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AP Literature Comedy - genre Flashcards

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6018105272ComedyType of drama opposed to tragedy, emphasizes human limitation0
6018116276denotation and connotationliteral definition and emotional content1
6018123369ConsonanceThe repetition of consonant sounds2
6018136424coupleta stanza of two lines3
6018141329climaxevent in the plot where the conflict is most directly addressed4
6018150729Deus ex machinaResolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence5
6018157806Dictionauthors choice of words6
6018160992Dramais designed to be performed7
6018168152drama of the absurdallied with comedy, radically non realistic in both content and presentation8
6018176598Editorializingdeparts from narrative or dramatic mode and instructs the reader how to think or fell about story or characters9
6018185900Expositionfirst section of the plot10
6018188754falling actionafter climax containing events caused by the climax and contributing to the resolution11
6018197825farcedrama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and coarse wit over characterization or articulated plot12
6018208695Figurative languagesaying one thing and meaning something else13
6018214972Figure of speechstates something that is not literally true in order to create an effect14
6018222325flashbackreference to an event which took place prior too the beginning of a story or play15
6018230229Foilcharacter in a play who sets off the main character or other characters by comparison16
6018236113foreshadowingmethod to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come17
6018241172Free VerseRhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern18
6018250088Genrea literary type or form19

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