Vocabulary Words, English IV, Unit 1

tragedy
tragic hero
anagnorisis
peripeteia
hamartia
catharsis
comedy
drama
allegory
allusion
anecdote
conceit
connotation
detail
diction
figurative language
imagery
juxtaposition
metaphor (metaphoric language)
paradox
paraphrase
parallelism/parallel sentence structure
periodic sentence
poetry/poem
soliloquy
syntax
theme
tone (attitude, language)
Iamb/iambic
Trochee/trochaic
Spondee/spondaic
Pyrrhee/pyrrhic
Anapest/anapestic
Dactyl/dactylic
Dimeter/trimeter/tetrameter/pentameter/hexameteter
Rough meter / rough verse
Blank verse
Free verse
Sonnet

Vocabulary Quiz on October 21/22.