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Literary Terms

Literary Terms. Thomas Fontaine and  Troy Nickens. Terms of Focus. Direct and Indirect Discourse Repartee Soliloquy Aside. Direct and Indirect Discourse.

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Literary Terms

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  1. Literary Terms Thomas Fontaine and  Troy Nickens

  2. Terms of Focus • Direct and Indirect Discourse • Repartee • Soliloquy • Aside

  3. Direct and Indirect Discourse Definition: Direct discourse is a direct quotation of a character, while indirect discourse is a third-person narrator summarizing the words of a character but replicating his or her character's idioms and patterns of thought. The narrator is implying the tone by speaking for the character.  Examples:  Direct: He said, "I go to school every day." Indirect: He said that he goes to school every day. -Her prudence whispered eternally, that safety there was none for her until she had laid the Atlantic between herself and St. Sebastian's.     -Thomas De Quincy essay

  4. Repartee Definition: A Technique for creating lively dialogue, common to both drama and prose fiction. A rapid-fire exchange of witty remarks in which each speaker replies to one another with clever retorts. Example: Chief Justice: Your means are very slender,  and your waste is great. Falstaff: I  would it were otherwise. I would my means were greater and my waist slenderer.  Chief Justice: God send the prince a better companion! Falstaff: God send the companion a better prince! I cannot rid my hands of him. [King Henry IV, Part Two (1590-91)]

  5. Soliloquy Definition: A dramatic or literary discourse in which a character talks to themselves revealing their true thoughts or intentions without addressing a specific audience. Example: Hamlet: To be, or not to be--that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life.

  6. Aside Definition: A dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience. The audience is to realize that the character's speech is unheard by the other characters on stage. It is usually a brief comment rather than a speech. Balcony scene:  JULIET: Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,  And I'll no longer be a Capulet. ROMEO [Aside.]: Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this? JULIET: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. ...

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