English Final Exam

Protagonist

The protagonist is the central character in a story, who will be engaged in conflict with another character or group of characters.

Antagonist

The antagonist is the person in opposition to the protagonist in a story.

Aside

An aside is a brief comment made by a character alone, or “whispered” to another character on stage, while the other characters pretend not to hear.

Monologue

A monologue is a lengthy speech made by one character to other characters on the stage.

Soliloquy

A soliloquy is a lengthy speech made by one character alone on the stage, or where the other characters pretend not to hear it.

Dramatic Foil

A dramatic foil is a character who highlights or brings out the personality traits of another character in a play, usually through contrast.

Dramatic Irony

Dramatic irony is the contrast between a character’s words or actions have for the character and what the audience or reader knows about those words or actions.

Tragedy

A tragedy is a form of drama in which the main character, known as the tragic hero, experiences a downfall, usually death, either as the result of fate or a character flaw.

Theme

The theme of a literary work is the message about life that that work conveys.

Dramatic Tragedy

A dramatic tragedy is a play in which the central character(s), usually known as a tragic hero(es), experiences a downfall as a result of fate or a tragic flaw in his / her personality, often resulting in death.

Tragic Hero

A tragic hero is a character who is of high social status and is essentially a good person, but who experiences a tragic downfall, often death, as a result of fate or a character flaw.

Symbol

A symbol is a person, place, or thing that has a meaning by itself but is also used to represent something else.

Narrative Poem

A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story.

Repetition

Repetition is the repeated use of a word or phrase close together.

Refrain

A refrain is the same word or phrase appearing in the same location in a stanza multiple times.

Blank Verse

Blank Verse is poetry which does not ryhme but is written in iam pentameter

Iam pentameter

Iambic pentameter is a specifc form of metriical meter made up of five iambs per line. for a total of then syllables per line.

Iamb

an iamb is a unit of poetical meter composed of two syllables. The first syllable is unaccented and the secod is accented

Rhythm

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