Drama Flashcards
It is a printed or written text of a play.
Script
What is drama or theater?
It can be read as well as enacted on stage; a literature that is kntended to be seen and heard.
What is a playwright?
Author of theatrical play
Plot is the…
Arrangement of incidents in a story.
Characters are…
Those who cause the events to happen.
What is conflict?
It is the struggle in the story or clash between the characters in the story.
These are the source of high points (thrills, suspenses, surprise, tensions etc…)
Discovery, Reversal, Dramatic Irony
Language and idea is found where?
In the dialogues.
Dialogues are…
Speeches of the actors in a drama.
It is the speech given by just one character.
Monologue
Tragedy was derived from the Greek words…
Tragos meaning goat and ode meaning song.
What is tragedy?
Its story intended to teach religious lessons, and like biblical parables, tragedies are designed to show the right and wrong paths in life.
Tragedy ends with…
The protagonist being overcome by the forces which he opposed or tried to oppose.
Unlike tragedies, comedies end…
Happily
Originally fortunate position.
Tragic hero
What is comic hero?
Rises above obstacles which lay on his triumphant way in the end.
Author of 90 plays
Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.)
Author of 92 plays
Euripides (480-406 B.C)
Author of 123 plays
Sophocles (496-406 B.C.)
He is the firstplaywright of Athenian Drama.
Aeschylus
He modified contemporary dramatic form and extended the range of emotion that could be portrayed in plays.
Sophocles
His plays were less grandiose than thos of Sophocles and Aeschylus.
Euripides
It set the stage at the beginning of the play.
Prologue
It wrapped up loose ends.
Deux ex machina
