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Drama Terms
Shakespeare Unit - Drama terms, shakespeare, etc (Honors English 9 - Furlong)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| drama | story written to be acted for an audience |
| tragedy | play that depicts serious events; ends unhappily |
| satire | type of writig that ridicules something to reveal a weakness |
| foil | a character used as a contrast to another character |
| comic relief | funny scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative |
| meter | generally regular pattern of stressed/unstressed syllabyles in poetry |
| blank verse | poetry written in unryhmed iambic pentameter |
| couplet | 2 consecutive lines in poetry that ryhme |
| iambic pentameter | line of poetry that contains 5 iambs |
| iamb | metrical foot (unstressed syllable follwed by a stressed syllable) |
| personification | metaphor when a non-human thing/quality is talked about as if it were human |
| pun | play on the multiple meanings of words or on 2 words that sound similar but mean different things |
| allusion | reference to a statement, person, place, event, history, religion, mythology, politics, sporths, science, or pop culture |
| aside | words spoken by a character to the audience/another character that aren't menat to be heard by others on stage |
| monologue | a poem in which a speaker addresses 1(+) silent listeners, often reflecting on a specific problem/situation |
| soliloquy | long speech in which a character (on stage alone) expresses their thoughts aloud |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something important that a character doesn't know |
| situational irony | a contrast between what seems appropriate and what really happens |
| verbal irony | a writer/speaker says 1 thing, but means the opposite |
| oxymoron | 2 opposite meaning words put together (bittersweet, jumbo-shrimp) |
| paradox | a statment/situation that seems to be a contradiction but reveals a truth |
| exposition | characters, setting, tone |
| rising action | conflict, problems |
| climax | turning point, most dramatic/exciting/intense, highest emotion |
| falling action | starting to wrap-up, begin to predict the outcome, marking/signaling the end |
| resolution | end, resolve, problem is solved, tragedy ends in death |
| shakespeare's writing shows an incredible amount of insight into: _______ | the human experience |
| the year shakepseare was born, an outbreak of the ______ swept through stratford | plague |
| shakespeare was able to attend school because of his _______'s position as High bailiff of Stratford | father |
| Students in school at the time were expected to speak Latin from the age of ____. | 8 |
| shakespeare's future wife | Ann Hathaway (8 years older than him) |
| Shakespeare & Hathaway were married in: ____ | November 28, 1582 |
| Shakespeare's first 2 plays | Henry the 6th, two gentlemen of verona |
| Shakespeare dedicated "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece" to: _____ | the Earl of Southampton |
| Shakespeare's first poem | Venus and Adonis |
| Shakespeares plays were above all, ______ | commercial |
| at the peak of the plague outbreak, how many people died each week? | 1,000 per week |
| what chance did you have of dying if you had the plague? | 70% chance of death |
| when did Shakespeare's son die | Augus 1596 |
| how old was Shakespeare's son when he died | 11 |
| Shakespeare's son | Hamnet |
| What percent of the globe theater did shakespeare own? | 10% |
| first play performed at the Globe Theater | Julius Caesar |
| who played all of the parts | men |
| what year did the Globe burn down | 1613 |
| what play was being performed during the fire that burned down the Globe? | Henry the Eighth |
| motto of the Globe: | All the world is a stage |
| How old was shakespeare when he died? | 52 |
| Shakespeare's birthday | April, 1564 |
| how many plays in the folio were published | 18 out of 36 |
| the first film version of a shakespeare play | King John |
| Shakespeare's legacy to the world is his: ______ | writing |
| when and where was drama born? | Greece; 600s BCE |
| The first performances were done at festivals to honor _____ | Dionysus |
| Thespis (a) | a. defined theater |
| Thespis (b) | was a playwright, actor, and preist |
| how many people did ampitheaters hold? | 20,000 people |
| where did the chorus perform | an orchetra (circular acting area) |
| what did the actors use to represent the characters? | masks |
| How did the actors appear taller? | High-soled boots (platforms) |
| During the most important era (400s BCE), tragedies were performed as part of a civic celebration called: ______ | The City Dionysia |
| also during the most important era (400s BCE), prizes were given for: _______ | best tragedy, comedy, acting, and choral singing |
| most important era | 400s BCE |
| where was the Theater of Dionysus located | a slope below the Acropolis in Athenns |
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