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Drama Lit Term
Literary Terms for Genre, Drama- Crucible Unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Drama | A story in dramatic form, typically emphasizes conflict in characters, written and meant to be performed by actors |
| Play | Synonym for Drama |
| Purpose of Drama - There are 3. | To entertain To provoke thought and emotion to present a visual and aural experience for the audience |
| Two Parts of Drama/Plays | Spoken Dialogue Stage Directions |
| Stage Directions | Stage directions describe setting, lighting, movement of characters and props, intonation of dialogue, costumes. Stage directions are usually in italics and square brackets at the appropriate place in the script. |
| Dialogue | a. Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative. b. The lines or passages in a script that are intended to be spoken *In fiction, dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays, characters' speech is preceded by their names |
| Antagonist | Also know as the foil. |
| Protagonist | The main character of a literary work |
| Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces in a story or play, usually resolved by the end of the work. |
| 4 Types of Conflict | - Person – against – self - Person – against – person - Person – against – nature - Person – against – society |
| 5 Elements of Dramatic Structure In Order | •Exposition •Rising Action or Complication *Conflict to the Climax •Falling Action *Denouement or resolution |
| Exposition | The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided. |
| Rising Action/Complication | A set of conflicts and crises that constitute the part of a play's or story's plot leading up to the climax. |
| Climax | The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work. |
| Falling Action | In the plot of a story or play, the action following the climax of the work that moves it towards its denouement or resolution. |
| Resolution/Denouement | The sorting out or unraveling of a plot at the end of a play, novel, or story. |
| Foil | A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story |
| Foreshadowing | Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story |
| Gesture | The physical movement of a character during a play. *Gesture is used to reveal character, and may include facial expressions as well as movements of other parts of an actor's body. . |
| Irony | A contrast or discrepancy between what is said and what is meant or between what happens and what is expected to happen in life and in literature. |
| Verbal Irony | Characters say the opposite of what they mean |
| Dramatic Irony | The opposite of what is expected occurs. In dramatic irony, a character speaks in ignorance of a situation or event known to the audience or to the other characters. |
| Monologue | A speech by a single character without another character's response |
| Narrator | The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author. |
| Pathos | A quality of a play's action that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character. |
| Plot | The unified structure of incidents in a literary work. |
| Props | Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play |
| Satire | A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies |
| Subject | What a story or play is about; to be distinguished from plot and theme. |
| Theme | The lesson from a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization |
| Tone | The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work |
| Tragedy | A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse. In tragedy, catastrophe and suffering await many of the characters, especially the hero. |
| Tragic Flaw | A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero. Jealousy and too trusting nature are some examples. |
| Tragic hero | A privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering. |
| Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one |
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