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Drama
A type of story writing meant to be performed in plays with live audiences.
Iambic pentameter
In a single line of poetry, there will be ten syllables within the line, five stressed and five unstressed.
Blank verse
Poetry that does not rhyme. Sounds more like conversational. Also called prose
Heroic couplet
When two lines of poetry in a row end in the same rhyme scheme
Slant rhyme
Forcing a rhyme pattern to fit because the words look the same when spelled, or sound similar to each other.
Lines
The speaking parts of the actors. Will be indicated with the Character name.
Stage directions
Not meant to be spoken. Indicated by parentheses tell actors how to say or do something.
Act
Indicates large chunks of time. In plays, usually a day or so. One overall place, but multiple scenes.
Scenes
The settings of the play. Scenes include different actors at different times too.
Prologue
An actor called the chorus(narrator”), would give some preview info about the exposition.
