@GooseBumps 11 November 2020

Literature Terms I Learned in School

*****Key Terms***** Elegy: This is a poem that is sung for somebody who has given up the ghost or died. Lyric: This is a song that expresses personal emotions or thoughts. Panegyric: This is a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something. Ode: This is a lyric poem that expresses love, respect or praise for someone or something. Dramatic Monologue: This is a poem that portrays a solitary speaker communing with the audience, without any dialogue coming from other characters. Farce: This is a play that thrives on exaggeration of humor, plot, and character. Aside: This is when a speaker on stage mumbles words intended for the audience only. Verbal Irony: This is when a speaker on stage intends more than he says. Sonnet: This is made up of a rhyming sestet and two rhyming quatrains. Soliloquy: This is a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage. Apostrophe: This is the address to an object or person not present. *****Some Facts***** Burlesque, tragedy and pantomime are types of drama. Resolution is not a type of drama. Malapropism is also known as Dogberryism.

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