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drama/poetry terms

english unit 3? notes

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Allusion A reference to something commonly understood. "He's a real Romeo with the ladies."
Pun A "low-grade" joke; using a word in a comical way. "You want a PIZZA me?"
Malapropism The accidental misuse of a word with a word that sounds the same. "The weatherman said there was a 90% chance of PARTICIPATION today."
Oxymoron A term that combines two opposite words. "Plastic glasses, pretty ugly, escaped prisoner."
Aside Occur on the stage when characters share a secret; meant to be heard by the audience/limited number of characters on the stage
Monolouge When a character rambles about something and doesn't want a response back.
Soliloquy Saying ones thoughts out loud so the audience knows what the character is thinking.
Chorus Comes out and speak to the audience to give a preview of what’s about to happen
Stanza The grouping of lines in a poem (couplets, quatrains, etc.)
Quatrain A set of four lines in a poem
Couplet Two lines of a poem
Meter A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Foot/Feet The units of a syllable; stressed syllable with an unstressed syllable.
Iamb A specific type of foot with one unstressed syllable and a stressed syllable , in that order.
Iambic pentameter A line of poetry that consist of FIVE iambs, one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable back to back.
Sonnet 14 lines, 3 lines and a couplet, abab, cdcd, efef, gg; generally about love.
Volta The emotional shift/ the solution to the problem in a sonnet.
Verbal Irony When the character(s) say one thing but mean the opposite (sarcasm)
Situational Irony When one thing is supposed to happen, but the complete opposite happens.
Dramatic Irony When the audience knows something that the character doesn't.
Character Foil A character that is the complete opposite of another character.
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