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KnebelDramaTerms
Drama Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| drama | means action; a literary genre consisting of works in which action is performed and all words are spoken before an audience by an actor or actors impersonating characters; lacks narrator |
| closet drama | subgenre of drama that is intended to be read |
| verse drama | type of drama written in verse rather than prose |
| realism | an attempt to depict real life focusing on the middle class; movement in 19th century Europe |
| foil character | a character designed to illuminate another character |
| narrator or chorus | comments or describes the happenings |
| aside | a short speech said on stage where character pretends others don't hear |
| soliloquy | a long speech said on stage where character pretends others don't hear |
| tragedy | a play that portrays a serious conflict and ends in disaster |
| comedy | a literary work that amuses an audience; produces a happy ending |
| proscenium arch | an arch over the front of a stage; serves as a frame for the action onstage |
| thrust stage | a stage design that allows the audience to sit around three sides of the major acting area |
| arena stage | a stage design in which the audience is seated all the way around the acting area; actors make their entrances and exits trough the auditorium |
| amphitheater | a theater consisting of a stage area surrounded by a semicircle of tiered seats |
| subplot | double plot |
| classical unities | derived from Aristotle's Poetics, a play has one plot, that occurs in one place, in one day--action, time, place |
| skene | costume building; dressing area |
| orchestra | a circular level, chorus stands |
| deus ex machina | any force that resolves plot |
| cothurni | elevator boots |
| hamartia | tragic flaw |
| catharsis | cleansing or emotional release |
| recognition | moment of knowledge |
| peripeteia | sudden change; a reversal fortune |
| hubris | excessive pride |
| tragic flaw | a fatal weakness |
| comic relief | when something funny happens after something tragic |
| mechane | crane that suspends actor |
| strophe | dance pattern |
| prologue | prepatory scene |
| antistrophe | trace dance steps backward |
| stasima | choral songs |
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