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Baker's drama vocab
vocabulary of drama
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegory | a work in which characters, places, and events represent abstractions |
| anecdote | a short story told for humor or to illustrate a point |
| aside | lines in a play understood to be heard by no one but the audience |
| comedy | a drama showing the folly of man |
| farce | an exaggerated comedy involving physical humor |
| hamartia | the flaw or error that causes the downfall of the hero in a tragedy |
| hubris | overweening pride |
| melodrama | an exaggerated tragedy pulling on the emotions |
| parable | a story designed to illustrate a spiritual truth |
| parody | a mocking imitation |
| pastoral | dealing with rustic life |
| satire | writing using irony to imitate and ridicule or poke fun at something |
| soliloquy | lines spoken by a character on stage alone |
| tragedy | the imitation of an action that is serious and also as having magnitude, complete in itself |
| catharsis | the purging of negative emotions vicariously |