Drama Terms

Question 1

Soliloquy

Answer 1

One character on stage, saying lines

Question 2

Dramatic irony

Answer 2

The audience knows more than the characters

Question 3

Monologue

Answer 3

One long speech, most of the time just one character

Question 4

Archetype

Answer 4

Perfect model from which things are created (tropes)

Question 5

Prologue: what is it and why was it important back then?

Answer 5

Like a movie trailer, provided insight and avoided riots

Question 6

How many lines in a sonnet

Answer 6

14

Question 7

What is a quatrain?

Answer 7

Set of 4 lines

Question 8

How many quatrains in a sonnet?

Answer 8

3 quatrains

Question 9

What is a couplet?

Answer 9

2 lines that rhyme in poetry

Question 10

Where is a couplet in a sonnet?

Answer 10

The end after the 3 quatrains

Question 11

What are the first 8 lines of a sonnet called

Answer 11

Octave

Question 12

What does an octave do?

Answer 12

Poses the problem

Question 13

What are the last 6 lines of a sonnet called

Answer 13

Sestet

Question 14

What does a sestet do?

Answer 14

Solve the problem

Question 15

Simile

Answer 15

Comparison “like” or “as”

Question 16

Metaphor

Answer 16

Comparison not using “like” or “as”

Question 17

Hyperbole

Answer 17

Exaggeration

Question 18

Allusion

Answer 18

References to history, other literature, art, etc.

Question 19

Personification

Answer 19

“The sun kissed me”

Question 20

Oxymoron

Answer 20

Opposites

Question 21

Imagery

Answer 21

What you can see

Question 22

Aside

Answer 22

Many characters on stage, but only one other character or the audience can hear the character saying the lines