Geesey Drama Unit Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acts and scenes | the basic units of drama |
| aside | a brief remark in which a character expresses private thoughts to the audience rather than to other characters |
| blank verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| comedy | a play with a happy ending; the protagonist wins |
| protagonist | the good guy |
| antagonist | the bad guy |
| dramatic effect | illusion of reality in a play's performance |
| dramatic irony | occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening |
| dramatic monologue | where a character gives a long speech explaining his or her feelings, actions, emotions |
| enjambment | the continuation of meaning, without pause or break, from one line of poetry to the next |
| foil | a character who sets off another character by contrast |
| heroic couplet | two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter |
| props | movable objects that actors use on stage |
| pun | a play on words, often achieved through the use of words with similar sounds but different meanings |
| rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme in a poem |
| sonnet | 14 line rhyming poem |
| satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly |
| script | play's text, containing dialogue and stage directions |
| sets | constructions indicating where the drama takes place |
| situational irony | discrepancy between what is expected, as in action or as regards to the situation/setting, and what one would expect to happen |
| soliloquy | in drama, a character speaks alone on stage to allow his/her thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to the audience |
| stage directions | provide details about sets, lighting, sound effects, props, costumes, and acting |
| synaesthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another, thus mixing senses: "How sweet the sound" |
| synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels") |
| theme | insight into life, the truth about life or human nature as revealed through a literary work |
| tragedy | a work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree is engaged in a significant struggle and which ends in ruin or destruction |
| tragic flaw | the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall |
| verbal irony | occurs when what is said contradicts what is meant or thought |
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