Lit Terms Quiz 3
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- Comedy
- a drama that ends "happily ever after"
- comic relief
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a lighter moment to decrease the tension in a serious plot line
(example: drunk porter in MacBeth) - Compare and contrast
- compare is to state the similarities and contrast is to state the differences
- conflict
- the challenge or quest a character has to face, internal conflict is within the character, external is with another character or the environment
- connotation
- the underlying meaning of a word; for instance, a person might comment that another is "slow" which, literally, means not quick, but the connotation of "slow" is mentally challenged
- connsonance
- the repetition of sounds in the final syllable of words
- denotation
- the dictionary definition of a word, its literal meaning
- denouement
- the tying up of loose ends after the climax in a plot
- descriptive essay
- an essay that proves or communicates the thesis through the images or descriptions it provides
- dialect
- a particular way of speaking a language common to a region
- dialogue
- conversation between two or more characters
- didactic
- teaching a moral or a lesson; suggesting a proper way to behave
- dilemma
- choice between two equal outcomes
- dissonance
- a lack of harmony
- dramatic irony
- a situation in which the reader or viewer knows something the character(s) does not
- dramatic monologue
- mono means one: a monologue is one person speaking; a dramatic monologue is one character speaking in a drama
- dynamic character
- a character who changes as a result of the events of the story