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Drama Terms
Integrated English 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Act | one of the main divisions of a play or opera |
| Alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Antagonist | character or force in conflict with a main character or protagonist |
| Anticlimax | turning point that is a letdown; point which audience or reader learns the story will not turn out in a way that completely resolves the conflict or satisfies the audience. |
| Aside | short speech delivered by a character in a play in order to express his or her thoughts and feelings;not meant to be heard by the other characters |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables. Hear the mellow wedding bells. |
| Atmosphere | the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage |
| Blank Verse | rhymed iambic pentameter. Widely used by Shakespeare. |
| Comedy | literary work that has a happy ending. Often portrays ordinary characters in conflict with society. |
| Conflict | the struggle between opposing foreces |
| Couplet | a pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter. |
| Dialogue | conversation between characters that may reveal their traits and advance the action |
| Drama | a story written to be performed by actors; script made up of dialogue and stage directions |
| Figurative language | writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally |
| Imagery | descriptive language used in literature to create word pictures, uses details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement |
| Irony | the difference between appearance and reality, or expected result |
| Verbal Irony | words used to suggest the opposite of what is said; sarcasm |
| Situational Irony | the difference between what the audience expects to happen and what actually happens |
| Monologue | a long speech by one character that is addressed to another character or characters. |
| Protagonist | the main character in a lterary work that must overcome the conflict |
| Stage directions | notes included in a drama to describe how the work is to be performed or staged |
| Theme | the central message or insight into life |
| Tragedy | ends in a disaster or catastrophe |
| Oxymoron | a combination of words that contradict each other ex: "deafening silence"; "honest thief"; "bittersweet" |
| Oral tradition | the retelling or songs, stories, and poems passed orally, or by spoken word, from generation to generation |
| Setting | the time and place |
| Simile | a figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| Soliloquy | a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage |
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