Dramatic Thertre Tems Spelling Test Flashcards
What is a aside
In drama, a speech by an actor directly to the audience, which are not “heard” by the other charachters on stage during the play
Define assonance
The repetition of a similar sounding vowel sounds in a sentence
What is a charachter
An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
What is Charachterisation
The process by which a writer makes that character seem real to the reader
What is a Climax
The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or a story
Define comedy (Shakespeare)
A genre that is light-hearted and has set conversations. Comedy things work out happily in the end.
What is comic relief
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
What is conflict
A struggle between opposing forces, (protagonist and antagonist,) in a story or play.
Define Denouncement
A French term meaning “unravelling” or “unknotting,” used to describe the resolution of the plot following the climax
What is Devine Right of Kings
The idea that God has chosen the King and his line
What is a foil
A character whose behaviour and values contrast or stand out against those is another character.
What is foreshadowing
The introduction early in the story of verbal and dramatic hints that suggest what comes later
Define Irony-dramatic
Creates a discreapancy between what a character believes or says and what the reader or audience members knows to be true.
Histories
Based on the outline on an historical event or a persons behaviour.
What is a Protagonist
The main character of the play
what is a Resolution
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
What is the Reversal
The point in a play when the action of the plot, or the protagonists fortunes, turn in an unexpected direction
What is the Rising action
A set of conflict and cries that constitute the part of a play’s or story’s plot leading up to the climax
Define Romances(Shakespearian)
Plays in which characters have been separated through conflict and misunderstanding are finally united and a new life begins based ion forgiveness and love
What is a script
The actors lines and directions
Define soliloquy
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
What is a subplot
The secondary action of a story, complete and interesting in its own right, that reinforces or contrasts with the main plot.
define Syntax
The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verses or dialogue.
What is “The Natural Order”
The balance if the universe.
