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Drama Words
Shakespeare
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| theme | moral or lesson in a story |
| comedy | major characters are married at the end |
| tragedy | many major characters die |
| history | true details of famous people (especially kings & queens) |
| poetic language | in lines, often has rhyme and rhythm,usually contains figurative language |
| rhyme | word at the end of lines that sound alike because same last letters |
| meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables |
| images | when words form pictures in your mind |
| act | traditional has 5 acts; major parts of a play |
| scene | smaller divisions of an act, when changed: different characters |
| stage | raised platform where actors stand |
| pit | where the lower classes stood for a performance |
| gallery | the raised seating in back, nobles sat, roof included |
| dramatic irony | a character does not know something that the audience does |
| aside | a short comment by a character meant to be heard by audience |
| monologue | a long speech by 1 character to other characters on stage |
| dialogue | 2 characters talking to each other |
| soliloquy | a long speech by one character to him or herself that others do not hear (only the audience) |
| lyrics | words to a song |
| costumes | clothing people wear to signify a character's status and/or time period |
| props | objects characters need to move the actions |
| lighting | set the mood; tell difference between acts; highlight an area on stage |
| scenery | backdrop or decoration that shows the setting |
| rhetorical | the art of speaking to move the audience |
| antithesis | opposites that balence |
| allusion | reference to a real event |
| pun | play on words that play on homophones/homonyms/words that are alike |
| wordplay | other play on words |
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Salste64
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