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english drama terms#
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| parody | a creative piece that mocks another piece in a humourus |
| flashback | an interruption in a storys chronological order to show an event or memory from the past |
| foreshadowing | to hint at whats to come in a story |
| plot | the sequence of events that makes up a story |
| comedic relief | the use of a funny scene or character to interrupt a series of tragic or dramatic scenes |
| climax | the peak of a storys tension and the turning point where the main conflict occurs |
| conflict | the struggle between opposing forces that drives the story forward |
| narrator | the voice and speaker of a fictional work that tells the story |
| satire | a type of writing that uses wit irony and sarcasm to talk about evil or bad behaviour in humanity |
| stage dirrection | notes in a play that tell actors what to do |
| subplot | a secondary story line that exists alongside the main plot |
| setting | when and where a story takes place- helps understand the world and mood of the characters |
| resolution | the conclusion of the story by the resolving the conflicts of characters |
| irony | when the opposite of what you expext to happen actually happens |
| character | an imaginary person that inhabites a literary work |
| protagonist | main character |
| symbol | an object or action that stands for something else often a bigger or more complex idea |
| theme | the main idea or big message of a story that teaches us about life |
| tradgedy | focuses on the suffering or downfall of the main character or characters |
| comedy | places characters in amusing situations for the sake of humour |
| pathos | it appeals to the emotions of the audience to make them feel a certain way |
| aside | words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not heard by the other characters on stage during a play |
| soliloquy | a longer speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not other characters |
| dialougue | the conversation between characters in a literary play, with speachmarks |
| monologue | a prolonged speach by one person in a literary work |
| forth wall | the imaginary invisavle wall that seperates the imaginary play world from the real world of the audience |
| props | objects that appear on stage during a play- help set the scene |
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Jenny.davis