• A character with qualities that are in sharp contrast to another character, thus emphasizing the qualities of each.

Foil

•A hint about what is to come in literature or what the outcome of the conflict will be.

Foreshadowing

• Simile • Comparison using “like” or “as” o Her face is like a summer’s day…

• Metaphor•Comparison not using “like” or “as” o “I am the East, and Juliet is the West…”

 

Simile/Metaphor

• External o Man vs. Man o Man vs. Nature  o Man vs. Society 

• Internal o Man vs. Self

Conflict

• Protagonist• Main character who is in conflict with the

antagonist and whom the audience is intended to most identify with.

• Antagonist• Character that represents the opposition

against which the protagonist must contend.

Protagonist/Antagonist

• Soliloquy• Long speech given by a character while alone on stage

to reveal his or her private thoughts or intentions to the audience.

• Monologue• Character speaks at length to the audience or another

character without the expectation of a response.

• Aside• Character’s brief, quiet remark to the audience or

another character that no one else on stage is supposed to hear.

Soliloquy/Monologue/Aside

.Irony• Contrast between appearance and reality•Dramatic Irony• Audience or reader knows something the

other characters do not know

Irony/Dramatic Irony

• Written like poetry but tells a story

• Free-flowing rules - doesn’t have a rhyme scheme or set number of lines

Blank Verse

• Lines have a rhythm to them

• 10 syllables

• Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

He JESTS at SCARS that NEV er FELT a WOUND But SOFT! what LIGHT through YON der WIN dow BREAKS?

Iambic Pentameter

• Alliteration Group of words that begin with the same letter

or soundo desire doth in his deathbed lie

• Pun Play on words o "Vandals destroyed many road signs. They really pulled out all the

stops."

Alliteration/Pun

Ballad: a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

Sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

Sonnet 130My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

Ode: a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.

Pindaric Ode: Ode to Aphrodite - Sappho (c. 630-570 B.C.) Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers,Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress,With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spiritLady, not longer! Hear anew the voice! O hear and listen!Come, as in that island dawn thou camest,Billowing in thy yoked car to SapphoForth from thy father'sGolden house in pity!