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Literature Vocabulary

Delia

Vocabulary words for Drama, Poety, fiction and Writings

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4.The use of phrases, clauses or sentences that are similar complementary in structure or in meaning
8.A literary composition, usually a novel or a play written in three parts
9.Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
12.Weakness or flaw of a character
14.Literary work that mocks a person, place, thing or idea using irony sarcasm and understatement
15.A drama written to be read rather than acted on a stage
16.A fourteen line lyric poem
17.Relies on slapstick and horesplay
20.A series of difficulties forming the cenral action in a narrative
22.Comedy that involves ridiculous or hilarious complications without regard for human values
23.Involves a love affair but meets with various obstactles
25.A major division in the action of a play
27.unrealistic devices or procedures that the reader or audience agrees to accept
28.A story acted out, usually on a stage
33.Is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
37.A descriptive adjective or phrase used to characterize someone or something
39.Light play with a happy ending
40.A stanza or three lines
43.The differences between what is said or believed and what is actually the truth
44.Plays almost no attention to human values, no literary value
45.Poetry that nas no fixed meter or pattern and that dpends on the natural speech rhythms
46.A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition
47.poetry that expresses a speaker's personal thoughts or feelings
48.The end
49.Words spoken by a character in a play, not intended to be heard by other characters on stage
50.Persona
51.A greater regular pattern of stressed syllables in poetry
52.A group of lines formng a unit in a poem
53.A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem
54.Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play
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1.a line of cerse consisting of three feet
2.The idea that a play should be limited to a specific time, place, and story line
3.A serious play having an unhappy ending
5.Separated by danced choral songs
6.Comedy which wittily protrays fashionable life
7.A line of verse containing four feet
10.the song for the entrance of the chorus
11.Extreme pirde, leading to overconfidence
13.A weakness or limitation of charcter resulting in the fall of the tragic hero
18.An evil habit or wicked tendency present in characters
19.A set of conflicts and crises that constitute the parts of a play or story plot leading to the climax
21.Actions turns out to have the opposite effect from the one its doer had intended
24.A stanza or poem of four lines
26.A speecj, usually lengthy, in which a character along on stage expresses his or her thoughts aloud
29.Epic simile, ends in a climax
30.Patterns of rhymes in a poem indicated by a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme
31.A long uninterrupted speech
32.The first line of an italian sonnet
34.The hero or heroine or main character in a story
35.A verbal wit, such as puns
36.The last six lines of an italian sonnet
38.A three-line Stanza form borrowed from the italian poets
41.a preparatory scene
42.A brief witty poem
46.A line of poetry