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drama terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| blank verse | - unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. |
| meter | - the regular rhythmic pattern in language. |
| poetry | - concentrated language. |
| prose | - the ordinary everyday language. |
| iamb | - unit of speech that contains one unstressed syllable and followed by a stressed syllable. |
| iambic pentameter | - the pattern in which the rhyme has five unstressed syllables each followed by a stressed syllable. |
| tragic hero | - faces his or her downfall with courage and dignity, is of high social rank. |
| tragic flaw | - an error in judgement or a character defect. |
| dramatic irony | - results when the audience knows more than one or more of the characters. |
| aside | - this is a characters remark, either to the audience or to another character that no one else on stage is supposed to hear. |
| soliloquy | - a speech given by a character alone on stage used to reveal his or her private thoughts and feelings. |
| verbal irony | -when someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing that means another. |
| drama | - This is a literature in which plots and characters are developed through dialogue and action. |
| irony | - a special kind of contrast between appearance and reality which is the opposite of what it means. |
| extended metaphor | - figure of speech that compares two or more essentially unlike things at some length and in several ways. |
| foil | -a character who provides a striking contrast to another character. |
| sonnet | -a lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter. |
| couplet | -a rhymed pair of lines it may be written |
| quatrain | -a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. existing in various forms. |
| omen | -a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change. |
| rhyme scheme | -a rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. |
| prose | - written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. |
| anachronism | - an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong. |
| parallelism | - the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning |
| rhetorical question | - a question that requires no answer. |
| anaphora | - the repetition of a word or a group of words at the beginning of a consecutive sentence. |
| logos | - logical appeal |
| ethos | - ethical appeal |
| pathos | - emotional appeal |
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