Creative Writing Flashcards

Drama

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It is broadly defined as any story told in dialogue form that is performed by actors for an audience.

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Drama

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Actors speak to one another or the audience, bringing life to their characters through tone of voice, expressions, and movement.

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Drama

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It comes from the Greek word “—” meaning to do or to act.

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Dran

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3
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is a form of literature written by a playwright that consists of dialogues between characters. It is intended for theatrical performance.

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Play

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is a form of drama that consists of a single act, although it can contain more than one scene. The plot centers on a single incident.

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One-act play

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The one who acts the play.

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Characters

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It refers to the time and place in which the events occur, including the environment and atmosphere.

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Settings

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it is the conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction, this is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays, this is preceded by their names.

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Dialogue

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It is the unified structure of incidents in a literary work.

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Plot

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It is designed to be humorous. It is often filled with witty remarks, unusual characters, and strange circumstances.

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Comedy

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Contains darker themes such as death, and disaster. The protagonist has a tragic flaw, which leads to their downfall.

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Tradegy

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It is generally a nonsensical genre of play. Often overacted and often involves slapstick humor.

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Farce

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Play that takes a comic look at current events while attempting to make it political, e.g. corruption. This is the most popular comedy.

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Satirical

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It is usually accompanied by dancing and singing.

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Musical Theatre

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Focus on historical events. They can be tragedies or comedies. It is popularized by William Shakespeare.

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Historical Plays

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It is an interruption of a work’s chronology to describe or present an incident before the main time frame of a work’s action.

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Flashback

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ForeshadowinIt is the hint of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.

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Foreshadowing

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It is a speech that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on stage.

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Soliloquy

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It presents the performance, including the position of the actors on stage, the scenic background, the props and costumes, and the lighting and sound effects.

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Staging

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It is the playwright’s descriptive and interpretive comments that provide actors with information about the dialogue, setting, and action

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Stage Direction

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It is an object or an action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.

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Symbol

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It is the way an author, chooses words and arranges them in sentences or lines of dialogue with descriptions, imagery, and other literary techniques

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Style

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It is the shaping of a text’s meaning by another text. It is a literary device that creates an interrelationship between texts and generates related understanding in separate works.

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Intertextuality

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A brief reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, and literary significance.

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Allusion

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This is a reference to a statement of a famous person, usually a well-known expert in the field.

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Quotation

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This imitates or mocks another serious work or type of literature.

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Parody

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It is a loan translation, especially one resulting from bilingual interference in which the internal structure of a borrowed word or phrase is maintained but its morphemes are replaced by those of a native language. Example: German “Gehirnsturm” English “Brainstorm”

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Calque

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It imitates the style or character of another work. But unlike Parody, there is no intent to ridicule in—-

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Pastiche

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It is the process of translating words or texts from one language into another.

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Translation

27
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It is a practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

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Plagiarism