Creative Writing Flashcards
Drama
It is broadly defined as any story told in dialogue form that is performed by actors for an audience.
Drama
Actors speak to one another or the audience, bringing life to their characters through tone of voice, expressions, and movement.
Drama
It comes from the Greek word “—” meaning to do or to act.
Dran
is a form of literature written by a playwright that consists of dialogues between characters. It is intended for theatrical performance.
Play
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.
One-act play
The one who acts the play.
Characters
It refers to the time and place in which the events occur, including the environment and atmosphere.
Settings
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.
Dialogue
It is the unified structure of incidents in a literary work.
Plot
It is designed to be humorous. It is often filled with witty remarks, unusual characters, and strange circumstances.
Comedy
Contains darker themes such as death, and disaster. The protagonist has a tragic flaw, which leads to their downfall.
Tradegy
It is generally a nonsensical genre of play. Often overacted and often involves slapstick humor.
Farce
Play that takes a comic look at current events while attempting to make it political, e.g. corruption. This is the most popular comedy.
Satirical
It is usually accompanied by dancing and singing.
Musical Theatre
Focus on historical events. They can be tragedies or comedies. It is popularized by William Shakespeare.
Historical Plays
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.
Flashback
ForeshadowinIt is the hint of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.
Foreshadowing
It is a speech that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on stage.
Soliloquy
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.
Staging
It is the playwright’s descriptive and interpretive comments that provide actors with information about the dialogue, setting, and action
Stage Direction
It is an object or an action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
Symbol
It is the way an author, chooses words and arranges them in sentences or lines of dialogue with descriptions, imagery, and other literary techniques
Style
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.
Intertextuality
A brief reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, and literary significance.
Allusion
This is a reference to a statement of a famous person, usually a well-known expert in the field.
Quotation
This imitates or mocks another serious work or type of literature.
Parody
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”
Calque
It imitates the style or character of another work. But unlike Parody, there is no intent to ridicule in—-
Pastiche
It is the process of translating words or texts from one language into another.
Translation
It is a practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.
Plagiarism
