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Drama Terms
WSHS - English 9 - Drama Terms - Long/Tedder
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aside | words spoken to the audience, not the characters on stage |
| allusion | a reference in a story to a historical person or event |
| foil | two characters who are so opposite in personality that they make one another stand out |
| dramatic irony | when the audience is aware of something that the characters are not |
| soliloquy | a long speech by 1 character that expresses his/her feelings |
| tragedy | a play which ends in death |
| comedy | a play which ends in marriage |
| blank verse | poetry that is unrhymed |
| comic relief | a comic scene that breaks up a serious situation |
| couplet | 2 lines of poetry back to back that rhyme |
| pun | a play on the multiple meanings of a word |
| connotation | all of the meanings a word suggests |
| dialogue | conversation between characters in a play |
| epilogue | the final speech in a play |
| prologue | the beginning speech in a play given by the chorus usually |
| chorus | group of actors who help to tell the story |
| hamartia | a flaw in a character's personality which leads to a downfall |
| stage directions | notes that tell actors on stage where to go and how to act |
| act | one of the major divisions of a play |
| scence | one of the divisions of an act |
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