41 terms in 3.2
Drama & Performance
A dramatic convention in which a character addresses the audience directly while other characters on stage cannot hear.
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Drama & Performance
Emotional release or purification experienced by audience through intense dramatic experience.
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Drama & Performance
A group of characters or a single character (Choregos) that comments on action, provides context, and represents collect
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Drama & Performance
Characteristic features of comic drama, including mistaken identity, wordplay, physical humour, lower-status characters,
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Drama & Performance
Written instructions in dramatic texts specifying movement, action, lighting, sound, and other performance elements. Sta
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Drama & Performance
A reader's willing acceptance of fictional premises and conventions, temporarily accepting the truth of the narrative wo
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Drama & Performance
Characteristic features of tragic drama, including a noble protagonist with a tragic flaw, inevitable downfall, catharsi
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A fictional future society characterised by oppressive control, environmental collapse, technological dominance, or soci
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A poetic form in which a speaker addresses a silent listener(s), revealing character through speech. Dramatic monologues
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A literary technique imitating the style or form of another work, author, or genre for humorous or critical effect. Paro
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A literary composition imitating the style of another author or work, typically without mocking intent. Pastiche celebra
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
Characteristic features of realist literature, including truthful representation of ordinary life, psychological depth,
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
A literary technique using humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to criticise or mock something (people, institutions
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
The appearance of truth or reality in a narrative, achieved through realistic detail, internal consistency, and plausibl
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
The study of body language, gesture, and facial expression in communication. In drama, kinesics includes movement, gestu
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Features of speech beyond words themselves: tone of voice, volume, pace, stress, intonation, and vocal qualities (breath
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Genre, Style & Non-verbal Communication
The analysis of how physical distance and spatial positioning between characters conveys meaning and reflects relationsh
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A representation of speech using characters' exact words in quotation marks. Direct speech creates immediacy and authent
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
Character's exact mental wording, often in first-person and italics.
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
Genette's term for the perspective from which readers perceive narrative events. Focalisation separates the narrator (wh
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A hybrid representation of speech that blends character voice with narrative voice, using character perspective and voca
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A narrator who is not a character in the narrative they tell. Heterodiegetic narrators describe events they observe from
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A narrator who is a character within the narrative they tell, narrating events they participated in or witnessed. Homodi
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
A representation of speech paraphrased in the narrator's words, using reported clauses. For example, 'She said that she
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
The tense system used in narration, most commonly past tense (third-person narrative) or present tense (immediate narrat
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Narrative Voice & Perspective
The representation of characters' internal thoughts using three main forms: direct thought ('I hate this'), indirect tho
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
A poetic form characterised by quatrains with alternate rhyme (ABAB or ABCB), often in simple language with repetitive r
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
Poetry in which visual appearance on the page is as important as words or sound, often abandoning conventional linear re
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
A line of poetry that ends with punctuation (period, comma, semicolon) and completes a grammatical phrase or clause. End
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
Running lines into following lines without pause, creating fluidity and disrupting regular rhythm.
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
Poetry emphasising personal emotion, feeling, and consciousness rather than narrative action. Lyric poetry expresses spe
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A line of poetry that continues without punctuation into the next line, breaking a phrase or clause across lines. Run-on
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Poetic Forms & Techniques
A 14-line poem in iambic pentameter with specific rhyme schemes. The two major forms are Shakespearean (ABAB CDCD EFEF G
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Textual Analysis & Theory
Linguistic mechanisms that create coherence within and between sentences, including lexical cohesion (vocabulary repetit
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A technique rendering the familiar strange or unusual through specific linguistic and stylistic choices, forcing readers
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The technique of emphasising particular linguistic or stylistic features through deviation from norms, making them perce
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Cohesion achieved through grammatical structures and relationships, including pronoun reference (anaphora, cataphora), c
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Cohesion achieved through vocabulary relationships, including word repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy/hypernymy, a
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Textual Analysis & Theory
A cognitive framework explaining how readers use mental schemas (structured knowledge of concepts, situations, and patte
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Textual Analysis & Theory
A theoretical framework proposing that readers construct a mental 'text world' while reading, combining textual informat
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Textual Analysis & Theory
Authorial techniques for controlling narrative time, including prolepsis (foreshadowing), analepsis (flashback), ellipsi
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