EX MACHINA / The Image Millâ„¢. Literature | Glossary of Drama Terms. Allegory. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent. The most famous example in English is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's. Progress, in which the name of the central character, Pilgrim, epitomizes. Kay Boyle's story "Astronomer's. Wife" and Christina Rossetti's poem "Up- Hill" both contain. Alliteration. The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood.". Hopkins, "In the Valley of the Elwy."Antagonist. A character or force against which another character struggles. Deus Ex Machina biography Very interesting band from the new Itlalian generation. This is a band with extremelly talented musicians, bringing their musicianship to.
Creon is Antigone's antagonist in Sophocles' play Antigone. Teiresias is the antagonist of Oedipus in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. Aside. Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not. In Shakespeare's. Othello, Iago voices his inner thoughts a number of times as "asides". Assonance. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a. I rose and told him of my woe." Whitman's. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" contains assonantal "I's". How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick. Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself."Catastrophe. The action at the end of a tragedy that initiates. One example is the. Act V of Hamlet in which Hamlet dies, along with Laertes. King Claudius, and Queen Gertrude. Catharsis The purging of the feelings of pity and fear that, according. Aristotle, occur in the audience of tragic drama. The audience experiences. Character. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work. Literary. characters may be major or minor, static (unchanging) or dynamic (capable of. In Shakespeare's Othello, Desdemona is a major character. Bianca. Othello is a major character. Characterization. The means by which writers present and reveal character. Although techniques of characterization are complex, writers typically reveal. Readers come to. understand the character Miss Emily in Faulkner's story "A Rose for. Emily" through what she says, how she lives, and what she does. Chorus. A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of. Their. leader is the choragos. Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus the King. Tennessee Williams's Glass. Menagerie contains a character who functions like a chorus. Climax. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. The climax. of John Updike's "A & P," for example, occurs when Sammy quits. Comedy. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals. In comedy, things work out happily in the. Comic drama may be either romantic- -characterized by a tone of. Satiric works offer a darker vision of human nature, one that ridicules human. Shaw's Arms and the Man is a romantic comedy; Chekhov's. Marriage Proposal is a satiric comedy. Comic relief. The use of a comic scene to interrupt a succession of intensely. The comedy of scenes offering comic relief typically. Comic relief is lacking. Greek tragedy, but occurs regularly in Shakespeare's tragedies. One. example is the opening scene of Act V of Hamlet, in which a gravedigger. Hamlet. Complication. An intensification of the conflict in a story. Complication builds up, accumulates, and develops the primary or central. Frank O'Connor's story "Guests of. Nation" provides a striking example, as does Ralph Ellison's "Battle. Royal."Conflict. A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually. The conflict may occur within a character as. Lady Gregory's one- act play The Rising of. Moon exemplifies both types of conflict as the Policeman wrestles with. Connotation. The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in connotation. Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" includes. Good men, the last. Their frail deeds might have danced in a green. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."Convention. A customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of. Greek tragedy, the inclusion of an explicit moral in. Literary conventions are defining features of particular literary. Denotation. The dictionary meaning of a word. Writers typically play. In the following lines from Peter Meinke's. Advice to My Son" the references to flowers and fruit, bread and. To be specific, between the peony and rose. Plant squash and spinach, turnips and tomatoes; Beauty is nectar and nectar, in a desert, saves- -.. But, son,always serve wine. Denouement. The resolution of the plot of a literary work. The denouement of Hamlet takes place after the catastrophe. During the denouement Fortinbras makes. Horatio speaks his sweet lines in praise of Hamlet. Deus ex machina. A god who resolves the entanglements of a play by supernatural. The Latin phrase means, literally, "a god from the machine.". The phrase refers to the use of artificial means to resolve the plot of a play. Dialogue. The conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction. dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays, characters'. Diction. The selection of words in a literary work. A work's diction. We can speak of the diction particular to a character, as in Iago's. Desdemona's very different ways of speaking in Othello. We can. also refer to a poet's diction as represented over the body of his or her. Donne's or Hughes's diction. Dramatic monologue. A type of poem in which a speaker addresses a silent. As readers, we overhear the speaker in a dramatic monologue. Robert. Browning's "My Last Duchess" represents the epitome of the genre. Dramatis personae. Latin for the characters or persons in a play. Included. among the dramatis personae of Miller's Death of a Salesman are. Willy Loman, the salesman, his wife Linda, and his sons Biff and Happy. Exposition. The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which. Ibsen's A Doll's. House, for instance, begins with a conversation between the two central. Fable. A brief story with an explicit moral provided by the author. Fables. typically include animals as characters. Their most famous practitioner in the. Greek writer Aesop, whose "The Dog and the Shadow". The Wolf and the Mastiff" are included in this book. Falling action. In the plot of a story or play, the action following. The. falling action of Othello begins after Othello realizes that Iago is. Desdemona. Fiction. An imagined story, whether in prose, poetry, or drama. Ibsen's. Nora is fictional, a "make- believe" character in a play, as are Hamlet. Othello. Characters like Robert Browning's Duke and Duchess from his. My Last Duchess" are fictional as well, though they may be based. And, of course, characters in stories and. The important thing to remember is that writers embellish and embroider and. They. fictionalize facts, and deviate from real- life situations as they "make. Figurative language. A form of language use in which writers and speakers. Examples include. Flashback. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or. Writers use flashbacks to complicate the sense of chronology in the. Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily" includes flashbacks. Foil. A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a. Laertes, in Hamlet, is a foil for the main character. Othello, Emilia and Bianca are foils for Desdemona. Foot. A metrical unit composed of stressed. For example, an iamb or iambic foot is represented. Frost's line "Whose woods these are I. I know" contains four iambs, and is thus an iambic foot. Foreshadowing. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a. Ibsen's A Doll's House includes foreshadowing as does. Synge's Riders to the Sea. So, too, do Poe's "Cask of. Amontillado" and Chopin's "Story of an Hour."Fourth wall. The imaginary wall of the box theater setting, supposedly. The fourth wall is especially. Hansberry's A Raisin. Sun, Wasserstein's Tender Offer, and Wilson's Fences. Gesture. The physical movement of a character during a play. Gesture. is used to reveal character, and may include facial expressions as well as movements. Sometimes a playwright will be very. Shaw's Arms and the Man includes. See Stage direction. Hyperbole. A figure of speech involving exaggeration. John Donne uses. hyperbole in his poem: "Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star."Iamb. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in to- DAY. See Foot. Image. A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or. Imagery refers to the pattern of related details in a work.
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