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Drama Literary Terms

Drama Literary Terms. Terms to know for UNIT ON SHAKESPEARE’s Romeo and Juliet. Allusion. A picture can be an allusion. Allusion. Mickey Mouse is giving acting instructions to a character who is playing the part of Ahab, a historical figure – that historical figure is the ALLUSION.

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Drama Literary Terms

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  1. Drama Literary Terms Terms to know for UNIT ON SHAKESPEARE’s Romeo and Juliet

  2. Allusion A picture can be an allusion Allusion Mickey Mouse is giving acting instructions to a character who is playing the part of Ahab, a historical figure – that historical figure is the ALLUSION a reference in one work of literature to a person, place or event in another work of literature or in history, art, or music.

  3. Aside Aside FOR THE AUDIENCE!! Hamlet is talking to the audience about why he does not want to kill his uncle while he is praying Short phrases spoken by a character in a play, usually in an undertone The audience understands that the words aren’t heard by other characters

  4. Blank Verse Blank Verse 10 syllables of IAMBIC PENTAMETER where the ends of the lines don’t rhyme Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter These are the gardens of the Desert, these The unshorn fields, boundless and beautiful, For which the speech of England has no name— The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight

  5. Chorus Greek Chorus There is no Greek Chorus in a Shakespearean play – they are replaced by the ASIDE A group of performers who stood outside the action (in Greek plays) They commented on characters actions and hinted at events to come

  6. Comedy Comedy OPPOSITE of TRAGEDY - has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted

  7. Couplet Couplet two RHYMING lines! • Two consecutivelines of poetry that rhyme Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees;" If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," The reader's threatened (not in vain) with "sleep."

  8. Dialogue Dialogue conversation - Conversation between characters in a drama

  9. Drama Drama Meant to be acted! - a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

  10. Dramatic structure Dramatic structure Shakespearean Dramatic Structure Act 3 Act 4 Act 2 Act 1 Act 5 - The structure of a play (acts & scenes)

  11. Epithet Epithet descriptive information - A descriptive adjective or phrase used to characterize someone or something

  12. Foil Foil George’s OPPOSITE - A character who sets off another character by contrast Harry Potter’s foil is Draco Malfoy George’s foil is Lennie

  13. Iambic meter Iambic meter One iamb = two syllables One IAMB Metric verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable da DUM

  14. Iambic pentameter Iambic pentameter 5 meters x 2 dadums = 10 Five verse feet with each foot an iamb (a total of ten syllables) Five da DUMS

  15. Irony Irony It doesn’t seem like these ads should be so close!! A literary technique that portrays differences between appearance and reality; the opposite of what is expected.

  16. Dramatic Irony Dramatic Irony We know something she doesn’t know!! When the audience knows something that the characters don’t

  17. Situational Irony Situational Irony It seems that the psychics would have foreseen this!  A contrast between what is expected and what really happens is called situational irony

  18. Verbal Irony Verbal Irony They say the opposite of what they mean!! - the contrast between what is said and what is meant.

  19. Monologue Monologue Sandra Bullock is making a speech to a guy in a coma. A long, uninterrupted speech presented in front of other characters

  20. Motivation Motivation How SHOULD the actor act his/her part? A reason that explains or partially explains a character’s thoughts, feelings, actions, or behaviors in a certain way

  21. Pun Pun That’s so punny! The humorous use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time

  22. Soliloquy Soliloquy Hamlet is alone on the stage – speaking to the skull of his childhood friend– Yorick a speech in which a character is alone (SOLO) on stage and expresses his/her thoughts out loud for the benefit of the audience.

  23. Sonnet Sonnet There are many kinds of sonnets but they all have 14 lines!! This shows a Shakespearean Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG A fourteen-line poem, written in iambic pentameter, with one of several rhyme schemes

  24. Tragedy Tragedy Opposite of a COMEDY! A Dramatic work that presents the downfallof a dignified character involved in historically or socially significant events

  25. Tragic Flaw Tragic Flaw What is Romeo’s TRAGIC FLAW?? - Fatal error in judgment or weakness in a character that leads to his or her destruction

  26. Tragic Hero Tragic Hero DOOMED! - Protagonist or main character in a tragedy; doomed characters who face defeat with great courage and dignity

  27. Verse Verse VERSE VS. PROSE - Poetry: literature written in metrical form, using figurative language  POETRY = VERSE Synonyms!! They mean the same thing!!

  28. contradictions Oxymoron a figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory terms

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