Wednesday, April 25, 2018

4/25/18

Lit 7 - Thursday, 5/10, drama vocab test. Soliloquy - euphemism.

Soliloquy: A speech in which a character talks to himself or the audience and reveals what he is thinking. Longer than an aside.
Scrim: A light, semi-transparent curtain.
Protagonist: Main character of a story, can be one person or a group of people.
Conflict: A struggle between opposing forces. Can be internal or external.
Parody: A humorous mimicking of a serious piece of literature.
Flashback: A literary device where an event from the past is inserted into the present. Seems as if it is happening in present time. Shows how the present is influenced by the past.
Foreshadowing: A device where the author gives clues that hint at later events in the story. Makes surprise endings more believable.
Euphemism: A nice way of saying something that is not usually nice (fat = big bones).