Drama Terms

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A major unit of action in the play similar to a chapter in a book depending on length plays can have as many as five

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Act

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Turning point

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The crisis

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A comment made to the audience or to another character which other characters onstage supposedly don’t hear

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Aside

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Old-fashioned; words that have disappeared from common use

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Archaic

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Iambic pentameter that does not rhyme

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Blank verse

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Reference to classic mythology

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Classical allusion

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Two consecutive lines that rhyme

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Couplet

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Written conversation between two or more characters used in all form of literature but most importantly in drama

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Dialogue

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Literature and which plots and characters are developed through dialogue and action; a play (includes stage plays, radio plays, movies, TV)

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Drama

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A situation the audience knows about but characters on stage do not

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Dramatic Irony

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A person or thing that makes another seem better by contrast

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Foil

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A premonition of something evil are harmful

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Foreboding

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10 syllables per line of them iambic meter: Unstressed/stressed five times U/U/U/U/U/

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Iambic pentameter

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Words that are in a unusual order (reversals)

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Inversion

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Also called bawdy humor intended to appeal mostly to the groundlings

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Low humor

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A character giving a long uninterrupted speech in the presence of others on stage

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Monologue

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A conscious unconscious need, Drive, etc. that insights a person to some action or behavior

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Motive

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Words together in a line that have opposite meanings

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Oxymoron

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A humorous play on a word with two meanings or two words that sound alike with two meanings

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Pun

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A small unit of a play in which there is no shift of location or time

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Scene

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One character alone on stage (or who believes he’s alone) speaking his mind and heart to the audience

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Soliloquy

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A 14 line poem with a very specific rhyme scheme (ababcdcdefefgg) rhythm (10 syllables per line and iambic pentameter meter) and contains three quatrains and one couplet (Shakespearean)

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Sonnet

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Notes in the script of a play to tell the actors when and where to come onstage move around or go off stage

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Stage directions

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Thoughts we imagine characters have as they speak their lines

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Subtext

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A serious play with a sad or disastrous ending

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Tragedy

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The crisis

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Turning point