Poetry

Poetry

poem = a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their beauty, sound or imagery.

Rhyme = the use of words with the same sound at the ends of the lines of a poem

Stanza = a group of line forming a division of a poem

Layout = the way in wich words are arranged on paper

Line = a row of word in a printed e

Rhythm = a strong pattem of sound used in music or poetry

Poetry = the art of writing poems

Run-on-line = the phrase is written in 2 lines

Assonance = the repetition of the same vowel sound

Alliteration = the repetition of the same initial consonant sound

Repetition = phrases or lines may be repated

Onomatopoeia = the use of word whose sound illustrates their meaning

Simile = a ison between 2 things with a ison word such as like

Metaphor = ison between  2 dissimilar things without a ison word

Oximor = 2words with completely different meaning

Personification = a type of methaphor wich attributes to things human characteristics

Symbol = is any thing, person or action that has a literal meaning and also stands for something else (rose is the symbol of love)

Drama:

Scene = a part of a play in wich the action remains in one place for a continuous period of time

Tragedy = a play that ends sadly

Performance = the action of entertaining other people by dancing singing acting or playing music

Play = a piece of writing that is intended to be acted in a thater

Comedy = a play which is amusing

Stage = the area in a thaetre where actors perform

Audience = the public at a theatre

Playwright = a person who writes a play

Act = a part of play

Stage direction = description or instruction in the text of a play explaing how it sholud be performed

The structure = (shakespearian plays) act 1: introduction, act 2: development, act3: crisis. Act4: complication, act 5: resolving of all difficulties

Dramatic techniques

Dialogue: it creates the action

It provides details about the characters it shows what a character thinks about another

It gives informations about the past and can foreshadow subsequent events

Soliloquy and monologue:

They thoughts about a specific problem

Plans for the future

Feelings and reactions

Exation of what happens between scenes

Asides:

To reveal the nature of the speaker

To draw the attention of the audience to the importance of what has been said or to explain developments

To create humor

Characters

A hero

A heroine (quite often)

Language: particulary intense and variegated

Tragedy: some of the main features of classical tragedies are: the prologue, the chorus, the concept of catharsis

The solemn style, the rappresantion of the struggle between good and evil

The hero is alwas a king,a princes and it dominetes by the fate and he has sometimes a flow

There is generally a villain

Comedy: the comedy has maintained some fixed features:

Ordiary characters

There's often misfortune

The writer mocks generally the vice and follies of the society

The plots are based on love