6018105272 | Comedy | Type of drama opposed to tragedy, emphasizes human limitation | 0 | |
6018116276 | denotation and connotation | literal definition and emotional content | 1 | |
6018123369 | Consonance | The repetition of consonant sounds | 2 | |
6018136424 | couplet | a stanza of two lines | 3 | |
6018141329 | climax | event in the plot where the conflict is most directly addressed | 4 | |
6018150729 | Deus ex machina | Resolution of a plot by use of a highly improbable chance or coincidence | 5 | |
6018157806 | Diction | authors choice of words | 6 | |
6018160992 | Drama | is designed to be performed | 7 | |
6018168152 | drama of the absurd | allied with comedy, radically non realistic in both content and presentation | 8 | |
6018176598 | Editorializing | departs from narrative or dramatic mode and instructs the reader how to think or fell about story or characters | 9 | |
6018185900 | Exposition | first section of the plot | 10 | |
6018188754 | falling action | after climax containing events caused by the climax and contributing to the resolution | 11 | |
6018197825 | farce | drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situations, violent conflicts, physical action, and coarse wit over characterization or articulated plot | 12 | |
6018208695 | Figurative language | saying one thing and meaning something else | 13 | |
6018214972 | Figure of speech | states something that is not literally true in order to create an effect | 14 | |
6018222325 | flashback | reference to an event which took place prior too the beginning of a story or play | 15 | |
6018230229 | Foil | character in a play who sets off the main character or other characters by comparison | 16 | |
6018236113 | foreshadowing | method to build suspense by providing hints of what is to come | 17 | |
6018241172 | Free Verse | Rhymed poetry with lines of varying lengths, and containing no specific metrical pattern | 18 | |
6018250088 | Genre | a literary type or form | 19 |
AP Literature Comedy - genre Flashcards
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