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What are the six characteristics of a tragic hero?
- 1. Noble stature
- 2. Tragic flaw
- 3. Free choice
- 4. Punishment exceeds the crime
- 5. Increased awareness
- 6. Produces catharsis for the audience
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Name the three types of conflict
- Man vs Man
- - Main character has problem with another character
- Man vs Self
- - Main character has emotional/mental problem
- Man vs World
- - Main character has problem with society
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A _________ tells about serious and important actions that end unhappily. In a _________, the central character(s) suffer disaster or great misfortune.
Tragedy
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What is a blank verse?
A blank verse is a poetic lines of ten syllables each. There is no rhyme at the end of the lines.
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____ is ordinary writing that is not poetry, drama, or song. The only characters that speak in ______ are the lower social classes in Shakespeare's plays.
Prose
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What is a foil?
A character or scene that is set up as a contrast to another so that each will stand out vividly.
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What is allusion?
A reference the author makes to a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture.
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Loss of Innoncence
A child's realization that the world is cold, unfeeling place.
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We are victims of social pressure/class
Characters struggle with the reality of the social structure and class system.
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Isolation
We need others in order to grow. Otherwise, life is merely about survival.
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Crime does not pay
Honesty equals honor and criminals will eventually be caught.
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Overcoming adversity
Persevering through a difficult and/or life-threatening situation and turning it into a truimph.
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What was the author's intent in Night?
- - To inform the world of genocide
- - So people will never forget what happened
- - To show us mans inhumanity to man
- - Loss of innonence
- - Catharsis
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Ethos
How the character and credibility of a speaker can influence an audience to consider him/her to be believabe.
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Pathos
The use of emotional appeals to alter the audience's judgement.
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Logos
The use of reasoning, either inductive or deductive, to construct an argument.
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Anaphora
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines.
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Rhetorical Question
A question posed by the speaker that doesn't necessarily require an answer, but raises questions and ideas.
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Aposiopesis
A form of break by which the speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion, fear, excitement, etc.
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Antithesis
Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel structure.
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Apostrophe
A sudden general turn from the audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present.
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