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Drama Terms
Drama Terms to use with Romeo and Juliet
Question | Answer |
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Blank Verse | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
Dialogue | conversation between characters |
Stage Directions | comments that provide information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play |
Exposition | the first stage of plot where background information is presented |
Tragedy | any literary composition dealing with a somber theme carried to a tragic conclusion |
Comedy | a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending |
Turning Point | a change in the plot |
Denouement | the end |
Prologue | the introduction of a play |
rhyming couplet | two rhyming lines |
Pun | a play on words |
Soliloquey | a character alone on stage with his or her thoughts |
Foil | a character who contrasts or parallels the main character |
Aside | a secret heard by the audience but not by the other characters in the play |
Monologue | a long speech when an audience and characters on stage are listening |
Conventions | ideas that the audience just accepts |
Dramatic Irony | the audience understands more than the characters do |
Comic Relief | a lightening of the mood to break up a succession of tragic moments |
Protagonist | the main character |
Antagonist | the force/character in conflict with the protagonist |
Catastrophy | the action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the denouement |
Chorus | a group of characters that comment on a play without participating in it |
Quatrain | a four line stanza in a poem |
Tragic Flaw | a weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero |
Tragic Hero | A privileged character who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering. |
Shakespearean Sonnet | 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter with a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
Iambic Pentameter | a line of verse that is ten syllables and the stress falls on every second syllable |