Dramatic Thertre Tems Spelling Test

Question 1

What is a aside

Answer 1

In drama, a speech by an actor directly to the audience, which are not “heard” by the other charachters on stage during the play

Question 2

Define assonance

Answer 2

The repetition of a similar sounding vowel sounds in a sentence

Question 3

What is a charachter

Answer 3

An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.

Question 4

What is Charachterisation

Answer 4

The process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader

Question 5

What is a Climax

Answer 5

The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or a story

Question 6

Define comedy (Shakespeare)

Answer 6

A genre that is light-hearted and has set conversations. Comedy things work out happily in the end.

Question 7

What is comic relief

Answer 7

The use of a comic scene is to interrupt a succession of intensely tragic dramatic moments, and offers comic relief. Mainly in Shakespeare’s tragedies

Question 8

What is conflict

Answer 8

A struggle between opposing forces, (protagonist and antagonist,) in a story or play.

Question 9

Define Denouncement

Answer 9

A French term meaning “unravelling” or “unknotting,” used to describe the resolution of the plot following the climax

Question 10

What is Devine Right of Kings

Answer 10

The idea that God has chosen the King and his line

Question 11

What is a foil

Answer 11

A character whose behaviour and values contrast or stand out against those is another character.

Question 12

What is foreshadowing

Answer 12

The introduction early in the story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what comes later

Question 13

Define Irony-dramatic

Answer 13

Creates a discreapancy between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience members knows to be true.

Question 14

Histories

Answer 14

Based on the outline on an historical event or a persons behaviour.

Question 15

What is a Protagonist

Answer 15

The main character of the play

Question 16

what is a Resolution

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The resolve, or sorting out of, conflicts and complications in the plot. It is also known as the falling action, follows the climax in the plot

Question 17

What is the Reversal

Answer 17

The point in a play when the action of the plot, or the protagonists fortunes, turn in an unexpected direction

Question 18

What is the Rising action

Answer 18

A set of conflict and cries that constitute the part of a play’s or story’s plot leading up to the climax

Question 19

Define Romances(Shakespearian)

Answer 19

Plays in which characters have been separated through conflict and misunderstanding are finally united and a new life begins based ion forgiveness and love

Question 20

What is a script

Answer 20

The actors lines and directions

Question 21

Define soliloquy

Answer 21

A speech in a play that is ment to be heard by the audience but not the characters on stage. Of there are no other characters on stage , the soliloquy represents the character thinking out loud

Question 22

What is a subplot

Answer 22

The secondary action of a story, complete and interesting in its own right, that reinforces or contrasts with the main plot.

Question 23

define Syntax

Answer 23

The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verses or dialogue.

Question 24

What is “The Natural Order”

Answer 24

The balance if the universe.

Question 25

What is a tragic hero

Answer 25

A privileged, exalted character high of repute, who by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from a glory into suffering

Question 26

Define Understatement

Answer 26

A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means the opposite if exaggeration.

Question 27

define Syntax

Answer 27

The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verses or dialogue.

Question 28

What is “The Natural Order”

Answer 28

The balance if the universe.

Question 29

What is a tragic hero

Answer 29

A privileged, exalted character high of repute, who by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from a glory into suffering

Question 30

Define Understatement

Answer 30

A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means the opposite if exaggeration.