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EQ: Why do we learn key vocabulary?. Try to translate the next slide. The difficulty of your set could be increased if you do a jam followed by a peach. .
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EQ: Why do we learn key vocabulary? Try to translate the next slide.
The difficulty of your set could be increased if you do a jam followed by a peach.
Translation:The point values you can earn on your gymnastics routine can be bigger if you include, in sequence, two particular skills on the uneven parallel bars: the "jam," which leaves the gymnast sitting on the high bar; and the "peach," where the gymnast moves from the high bar to the low bar. -
Shakespeare -famous English Playwright
tragedy -A drama in which the main character meets with disaster or misfortune as a result of fate or a serious character flaw
Tragic hero -an individual with considerable social standing whose character is neither good nor bad. This character suffers some sort of downfall or even death. The audience is to identify with this hero.
prologue -an introductory statement of a play that gives information that establishes setting, introduces characters, or indicates a theme or moral that the author wishes to convey
chorus -a group of people who comment on the actions of the play or who introduce the prologue
aside -a remark made to the audience, unheard by other characters, expressing the character's thoughts.
soliloquy -a speech in which a character alone on stage expresses his or her thoughts to the audience.
Monologue -a lengthy speech addressed to other characters, not the audience.
Verbal Irony -When a person says one thing yet means another
Dramatic Irony A situation in which the audience knows more than the characters on stage
Situational Irony The outcome of a situation is the opposite of what we expect. Winning the lottery and dying the next day is situational irony.
Blank verse -poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (10 syllable lines in which every second syllable is stressed).
sonnet -a 14-line poem commonly used by Shakespeare in his plays
couplet -two rhyming lines found at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet
characterization Various means by which an author develops a character S-Says T-Thoughts E-Effects on Others A-Actions L-Looks
Foil Characters who highlight or bring out the personality traits of another character by contrasting with the other character
Stage Directions -notes within a drama that tell how a character should move on stage
Flat Characters one-dimensional characters; possess just one character trait
Round Characters -possess many character traits; more like real people
resolution -the ending or how the conflict is resolved
foreshadowing -hints of what’s to come in the play
metaphor -a direct comparison between two unlike objects. “Juliet is the sun”
simile -a comparison between two unlike objects using “like” or “as” “Lips as red as roses”
personification -giving human-like qualities to nonhuman things “daffodils dancing in the breeze”
oxymoron -Two opposite or contradictory words juxtaposed “Bittersweet,”
pun -a play on words that uses one word that has different meanings
Act a major division of a play; some plays may contain several
Scene A subdivision of a play; a change of setting or scenery indicates a new scene
Epithet a term or phrase used to describe a person or thing Ex. Richard the lionhearted Dwayne, the rock, Johnson Odysseus, master of land ways and sea ways
