Term | Definition |
theme | lesson or moral in a story |
comedy | play that ends with happy marriages |
tragedy | play that ends with major characters dieing |
history | plays based on true stories of famous people of the past |
poetic language | lines of rhythm and figurative language |
rhyme | words that sound the same at the end of lines |
meter | pattern of stressed and unstressed rhyme |
images | when words bring up pictures in your mind |
act | 1 of 5 major parts of a play |
scene | parts of an act |
stage | platform where actors perform |
pit | where poor people stood to watch plays |
gallery | roof area where nobles sat to watch plays |
dramatic irony | when a character in a play does not know something the audience knows |
aside | short comment by a character meant to be heard only by the audience |
monologue | when a character says something in a long speech to the people on stage |
dialogue | characters talking to each other |
soliloquy | long speech by one person that only he or she can hear |
lyrics | words to a song |
costumes | what people wear on stage as status or time period |
props | objects characters need to move forward in action |
lighting | sets the mood and shows transitions in a play |
scenery | setting |
surfeit | filling or satisfying |
naught | nothing |
abatement | stopping |
pestilence | purified the air of everything infectious |
brine | salt water |
elysium | where the blessed go after death (Greek Mythology) |
perchance | perhaps; possibly |
provident | lucky |
prattle | gossip |
abjured | avoiding or staying away from |
eunuch | male soprano |
excepted | not included |
prodigal | spendthrift; wastes or spends too much |
prudent | careful; wise; practical |
accost | to approach |
porquoi | why (French) |
discourse | speech; conversation |
prosper | successful; grow wealthy |
malignancy | evil or bad influence |
distemper | disturb, manage |
publish | proclaim |
cunning | craftiness |
thriftless | useless;fruitless |
recompense | repayment |
extravagency | wasting |
peevishly | impulsive; annoyed; irritated |
churlish | rude; stingy; boredom |
frailty | weakness |
dram | tiniest bit |
scruple | doubt |
obstacle | something that blocks or gets in the way |
incredulous | unbelievable |
sanctify | to make holy |
favor | look alike
to prefer
if you please |
impetuosity | impulsive
doing without thinking |
venerable | demanding respect |
unsafe | not safe |
bounty | treasure or generosity |
scatheful | harmful |
adverse | hostile |
fulsome | disgusting |
unauspicious | unfavorable |
beguiled | tricked |
dissembling | hypocritical |
epistles | letters |
notorious | famous in a bad way |
Epiphany
epiphany | Epiphany- twelfth day of Christmas
epiphany- sudden realization of something true |
wordplay | words that are used become the main subject of the work |
allusion | reference to something or someone else |
pun | form of word play that suggests two or more meanings |