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R&J Drama Lit. Terms
R&J Drama Literary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Foreshadowing | To give a hint or clue about what will happen later in the text/plot |
| Pun | A play on words by the author |
| Personification | A special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman or quality is talked about as if it were or had human qualities |
| Tragedy | A serious drama with a sorrowful or disastrous ending |
| Prologue | The opening speech that introduces the play’s main characters |
| Monologue | An extended, uninterrupted speech by a single person, and the person may be speaking his/her own thoughts aloud or directly to another character or the audience |
| Soliloquy | An unusually long speech in which a character, who is on stage alone, expresses his or her thoughts alone |
| Aside | An actor’s words heard by the audience, but supposedly not by other characters on stage |
| Dramatic Foil | A minor character who resembles or is in similar circumstances to the central character in the play |
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that a character does not know |
| Allusion | A reference to a person, place, or event from literature, history, religion, myths, politics, sports, science or pop culture that is referred to in another text |
| Simile | Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, or than |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to our senses |
| Sonnet | Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter. Shakespeare’s dealt with love and beauty, and were written with 3 four-line quatrains ending with a 2 line couplet |
| Blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Iambic pentameter | A line of poetry that contains five iambs (a metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed) |
| Rhyme scheme | The pattern of rhymes in a poem |
| Metaphor | Figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using like, as, or than |
| Denouement | Also known as the resolution, it means the ending or the closing to the story |
| Prose | The ordinary language people use when speaking and writing |
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