Drama Terms Flash Cards
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mextaco96 on February 27, 2012
Subjects:
English II H Carlos Morales P4
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Mr.Aaron Ward Class 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Act | A major unit of action in the play, acts are sometimes divided into two scenes. each scene is limited to a single time and place. |
| Chiasmus | A statment of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed. |
| Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. |
| Melodrama | A play in which action and plot predominate over characterization. |
| Imperative | A sentence that gives advice or instructions of that express a command or request. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same sounds of the same kind of sounds at the begining of words |
| Theme | The central idea or message of the work |
| Litotes | The use of an understatement to cover the opposite idea. |
| Anaphora | A repetition device where in the same expression (words or words) is repeated at the begining of two or more lines. |
| Stage Directions | The instruction manual for the actors, directors, and stage crew as well as the general reader |
| Metonomy | Substituting the name of one object for another object associated with it. |
| Synecdoche | Using on part of an object to represent the entire object. |
| Anphorism | A concise statement that expresses truth or idea after used in a pun. |
| Pun | A play or words after achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings |
| Soliloquy | A speech in which a character speaks his or her thoughts out loud. |
| Aside | Remarks a speaker in an understatment by one character, either to the audience or to another character, ehich the remaining characters supresudly do hear. |
| Absolutes | Word free from limitations "best" "Unique" |
| Comic Relief | A humorous scene, incident, or speech that relives the overall emotional intensity used in tragedies to produce contrast in scenes. |
| Allusion | A brief reference within a work about something outside the work of the reader, Audience is expected to know usually what alludes to literature or history. |
| Foil | A character who's personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work. |
| Tragedy | A work in which a series of actions ads to the downfall of the main character. |
| Tragic Hero | Posses an importance or high rank, exhibits extraordinary talents, but also displays a tragic flaw that leads to his downfall, and faces adversity with dignity and courage. |
| Verse Dramas | A play in which the dialogue consists of poetry. |
| Blank Verse | Unrymed lines of Iambic pentameter (a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable) |
| Anachronisms | An error in chronology or placing an event, person, or language expression in the wrong period. |
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