The tempest Literary Terms

Tragedy

Characterized by death and disaster

Comedy

A light-hearted play with a happy ending

Tragic Hero

A protagonist of a tragedy who usually has a fatal flaw or uses band judgement, which end in death or downfall

Tragic Flaw

The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to its downfall

Blank verse

Poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost iambic pentameter

Iambic pentameter

It has 10 syllables per line. Syllables alternate between unstressed and stressed beats

Soliloquy

A monologue that is delivered when the character is alone

Aside

a device used in dramatic literature where a character speaks directly to the audience but usually goe sun heard by the other charagers

dramatic irony

when the audience knows something the characters do not

oxymoron

literary device in which two contradictory terms are used together in the same sentence or phrase

metonymy

a word that is associated with something is used to refer to that thing

hyperbole

exaggeration meant not to be taken literally

parallelism

words or phrases are repeated in succession and agree in both grammar and meaning.