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Drama Terms
Various dramatic lit terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aside | A character speaks to the audience or another character while others on stage "pretend" not to hear. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in multiple words |
| Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or ends of words |
| Soliloquy | Speech said aloud by a character revealing inner thoughts with no one else on stage |
| Dialogue | Spoken words between two or more characters |
| Foil | Two characters who under similar circumstances act in opposite manners |
| Repetition | The use of sounds, words or phrases again and again. |
| Rhythm | The beat of a line of poetry |
| Rhyme | Words whose endings sound alike |
| Iamb | A stressed followed by an unstressed syllable |
| Iambic Pentameter | A line of ten syllables containing 5 iambs (unstressed followed by stressed syllables.) |
| Protagonist | A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, video game, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to share the most empathy. |
| Antagonist | A person, or an institution,or a group of people who oppose the main character, or the main characters. |