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Drama Terms

Drama Terms . Tragedy. a serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character. Tragic Hero. a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw combined with fate and external forces. Tragic Flaw.

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Drama Terms

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  1. Drama Terms

  2. Tragedy • a serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character

  3. Tragic Hero • a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw combined with fate and external forces

  4. Tragic Flaw • a weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero

  5. Hubris • a type of tragic flaw • Hubris is excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy.

  6. Monologue • a long speech made by one performer or by one person in a group

  7. Soliloquy • a speech given by a character alone on stage • Think Solo=Soliloquy

  8. Aside • a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage

  9. Iambic Pentameter • Refers to lines that consist of ten syllables alternating unstressed and stressed syllables. • Unstressed = U • Stressed = / • Its stress pattern (five pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables) is conventionally represented U /U / U /U / U /

  10. Example: "The course of true love never did run true" (MND I.i.134).  • As you read this line aloud, listen for the stress pattern: da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM (i.e. the COURSE of TRUE love NEver DID run TRUE).

  11. Prose • refers to ordinary speech with no regular pattern of accentual rhythm. Lines of text do not all have the same number of syllables nor is there a pattern of stresses.

  12. Blank Verse • refers to unrhymed iambic pentameter. • Blank verse resembles prose in that the final words of the lines do not rhyme in any regular pattern (although an occasional rhyming couplet may be found).  • Unlike prose, there is a recognizable meter:  most lines are in iambic pentameter.

  13. Rhyme • Rhymed Verse in Shakespeare's plays is usually in rhymed couplets, i.e. two successive lines of verse of which the final words rhyme with another.  • The rhyme pattern of verse (Rhyme Scheme) in rhyming couplets is conventionally represented aa bb cc etc., with the letters a, b, and c referring to the rhyming sound of the final  word in a line. 

  14. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedyhaste: And therefore is Love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.

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