Streetcar Terminology

Question 1

Antagonist

Answer 1

Character who is the main opposition to the protagonist

Question 2

Authorial voice

Answer 2

The author, as distinct from the characters they have created, speaking directly to the reader

Question 3

Denouement

Answer 3

End of a play (or other narrative) in which plot strands are drawn together, questions are answered and conflict is resolved

Question 4

Dialogue

Answer 4

Lines spoken by the character to each other

Question 5

Dramatic irony

Answer 5

When the audience is aware of key information of which at least one character on stage is unaware

Question 6

Dramatic tension

Answer 6

Uncertainty of outcome, usually caused by conflict that the audience feels must be somehow resolved; suspense

Question 7

Epigraph

Answer 7

Quotation placed at the beginning of a poem, novel or play, hinting it’s meaning

Question 8

Expressionist

Answer 8

Presenting a distorted, exaggerated from reality. The expressionist movement started in Germany in the early 12 century in visual arts, and exercised a considerable influence on drama and film as well as on literature

Question 9

Figurative language

Answer 9

Language enriched by figures of speech such as a metaphor

Question 10

Foreshadow

Answer 10

Hint at what is to come later in the narrative

Question 11

Genre

Answer 11

Distinctive type of literature

Question 12

Hubris

Answer 12

(Greek) the overweening pride that is the cause of the downfall of a tragic hero

Question 13

Ironic

Answer 13

(1) somehow particularly inappropriate, as in the name Elysian Fields for a rundown street; (2)