Unit 4: Lessons 4–5

Learn these words from Into Literature, Grade 9, Unit 4, Lessons 4–5.
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  1. tragedy
    drama exciting terror or pity
  2. antagonist
    the main character who opposes the protagonist in a narrative or play
  3. foil
    a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
  4. soliloquy
    a dramatic speech giving the illusion of unspoken reflection
  5. aside
    a line spoken by an actor not intended for others on stage
  6. dramatic irony
    when the audience understands something the characters don't
  7. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  8. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  9. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  10. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  11. drama
    a work intended for performance by actors on a stage
  12. character
    an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction
  13. descriptive
    serving to inform
  14. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
  15. mood
    a characteristic state of feeling
  16. pun
    a humorous play on words
  17. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  18. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  19. suspense
    excited anticipation of an approaching climax
  20. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  21. linear
    involving a single dimension
  22. parallel
    make or place alongside something
  23. lyric
    of or relating to poetry that expresses emotion
  24. sonnet
    a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
  25. connection
    a relation between things or events
  26. prosody
    a system of versification
Created on Mon Aug 31 12:30:34 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Sep 10 09:50:05 EDT 2020)

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