Lit Terms: Drama
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ShayCoplin on February 27, 2012
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BHHS English I Pre-AP, Mrs. Fisher's Freshmen, Fisher Peeps
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Aside | In a play, a characters comment that is directed to the audience or another character, but is not heard by any other characters on stage. It reveals what the character is thinking or feeling. |
| Chorus | A group of singers distinct from the principle performers in a dramatic or musical performance and also the song or refrain that they sing. |
| Comic Relief | A humorous scene, event or speech in a serious drama. It usually provides relief from emotional intensity, while at the same time highlighting the seriousness of the story. |
| Dramatic Monologue | A form of dramatic poetry in which one speaker addresses a silent listener in a n intense or emotional situation. |
| Dramatic Irony | Exists when the reader knows something that a character doesnt know. |
| Dramatic Personae | The characters in a drama, a novel, or a poem. |
| Foil | A character who provides a strong contrast to another character. This character may emphasize another characters distinctive traits or make a character look better by comparison. |
| Free Verse | Poetry that has no fixed pattern of meter, rhyme, or stanza arrangement. |
| Interior Monologue | Represents the inner thought of a character, recording the internal or emotional thoughts or feelings of an individual. |
| Metaphor | A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things which are basically dissimilar without using like, as, or seems. |
| Motivation | Something that prompts a person to act in a certain way, or that determines the outcome in a situation or story. |
| Oxymoron | A figure of speech that is a combination of seemingly contradictory words. |
| Pun | A humorous play on two or more meanings of the same word or on two different words with the same sound. |
| Rhyme | The repetition of the same stressed vowel soudns and any suceeding sounds in two or more words. |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern that the end rhymes form in a stanza or in a poem. It is designated by the assignment of a diffrerent letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme. |
| Rhythm | The pattern of sounds (beats) created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables, especially in poetry. |
| Soliloquy | A long speech spoken by a character in a dramatic work, who is typically alone on stage. The speech reveals the private thoughts and emotions of the character. |
| Sonnet | A lyric poem of fourteen lines, almost always written in iambic pentameter and typically following strict patterns of stanza divisions and rhymes. Two basic types are Italian or Petrarchan and the English or Shakespearean. |
| Stanza | A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. |
| Tragedy | A play in which a main character or tragic hero, suffrs a downfall. That character typically is a person of dignified or heroic stature. The downfall may result from outside forces or from a tragic flaw in the character. |
| Tragic Flaw | A weakness within the main character of a tragedy and is the cause of his downfall. |
| Tragic Hero | The main character of a tragedy who suffers a downfall. |
| Dramatic Structure | The parts that make a drama, each representing a phrase of a dramatic conflict: intro., rising action, climax or crisis (turning point), falling action and resolution. |
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