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Dramatic Lit Terms
1st 20 terms; Mr. Killion
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| playwright | an author of plays |
| script | a written copy of plays |
| act | large sections of the play, like chapters in a book |
| scene | smaller sections of the play, acts are usually made up of several scenes |
| line(s) | the words spoken aloud by the characters |
| stage directions | a playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play |
| monologue | a speech by a single character without another character's response |
| dialogue | 2 or more characters having a conversation |
| aside | words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play |
| soliloquy | a speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage; if there are no other characters present, the soliloquy represents the character thinking aloud |
| chorus | a group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it; their leader is the choragos |
| thespian | an actor, derived from Thespis the first actor to step out of the chorus to play a character |
| 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 hero | a privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering |
| tragic flaw | a weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero |
| hubris | excessive pride, this is a very common tragic flaw of the protagonists in tragedies |
| catastrophe | the action at the end of a tragedy that initiates the denouncement or falling action of a play |
| catharsis | the purging of the feelings of pity and fear that, according to Aristotle, occur in the audience of tragic drama; the audience experiences catharsis at the end of the play, following the catastrophe |
| conventions | a customary feature of a literary work, such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy. Literary conventions are defining features of particular literary genres. |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows more than the characters do |
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