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Holmes Drama Midterm
Studies in Drama
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aside | a character speaks his inside thoughts to the audience, without revealing them to the other characters |
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter, standard verse form for english drama |
| Comedy of Manners | comedy dealing with behavior of characters under a very specific moral code, in which correct behavior is often more important than actual morality |
| Confidant | a character that makes up for the lack of a narrator |
| Decorum | a principal of having people act as they should, peasants spoke in low style, all violence was done off stage |
| Denoument | the final unraveling of the plot, after the climax has undone all the others |
| Eunomia | a name that by meaning tells us the nature of the character |
| Exposition | a preface or backstory, introduces the characters and tells of events preceding the action of the play itself |
| Flat Character | invented by E.M Forster for a one-dimensional character built around one characteristic |
| Foil | a character opposite of the protagonist |
| French Scenes | a act of a play separated by the entrance or exit of a character |
| Hybris | the sin of pride |
| Imagery | the use of words to invoke mental pictures |
| Katharsis | "purging" aristotle's word for the relief from fear an audience feels when a tragic hero suffers |
| Nonlocalized Staging | performance of a play in which the stage represents more than one location |
| Raisonneur | A mouthpiece for the author, the voice of truth |
| Rhesis | a lengthy set speech |
| Round Character | E.M Forster's term for a character so fully developed as to appear real |
| Soliloquy | 'Alone speech' a monologue delivered by a character alone on stage representing their thoughts |
| Stichomythia | 'Line Speaking' a rapid fire dialogue alternating between two characters |
| Teichoskopoeia | 'Looking over a wall' presenting actions that cannot be depicted on stage by having it described by on observer |
| Unity of Time | only one actually mentioned by Aristotle, says that the best tragedies take place in 'one revolution of the sun' or one day |
| Unity of Place | says the best tragedies take place in only one setting, so nonlocalized staging is prohibited |
| Unity of Action | Said one act should logically follow the preceding one, should be no subplots |
| Verisimilitude | technique which makes dramatic action appear to be true to life |
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