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Bower's Drama Lit
Drama Lit Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aside | words spoken to the audience not to the characters on stage |
| allusion | a reference to something historical or famous |
| foil | two characters who are so opposite in personality that they make one another stand out |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something a character does not |
| soliloquy | a long speech that expresses emotion |
| tragedy | a play which ends in death or a major downfall |
| comedy | a play which ends in a marriage |
| blank verse | poetry that does not rhyme |
| comic relief | a funny scene that breaks up a tense situation |
| couplet | 2 lines of poetry back to back that rhyme |
| connotation | the multiple meanings that a word suggests |
| pun | a play on the multiple meanings of a word |
| dialogue | conversation characters have in a play |
| epilogue | the ending speech in a play |
| prologue | the beginning speech of a play |
| chorus | a group of actors who help to tell the story in a play |
| hamartia | the flaw in a character's personality which leads to a downfall |
| stage directions | notes that tell actors where to go or how to act |
| act | one of the major divisions of play |
| scene | one of the divisions of an act |
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krierson