AP Drama Lit Terms
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aside | show 🗑
|
||||
| Allusion | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply.
🗑
|
||||
| Antagonist | show 🗑
|
||||
| Protagonist | show 🗑
|
||||
| Sililoquy | show 🗑
|
||||
| Fantasy | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A minor character whose situation or actions parallel those of a major character, and thus by contrast sets off or illuminates the major character.
🗑
|
||||
| show | The central idea of a literary work.
🗑
|
||||
| Deus ex Machina | show 🗑
|
||||
| Didactic | show 🗑
|
||||
| Dilemma | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The presentation through dialogue of information about events that occurred before the action of a play, or that occur offstage or between the staged actions; this may also refer to the presentation of information about individual characters backgrounds.
🗑
|
||||
| Dramatic Conventions | show 🗑
|
||||
| Melodrama | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A type of drama related to comedy but emphasizing improbable situation, violent conflicts, physical action, and course wit over characterization or articulated plot.
🗑
|
||||
| Drama of the Absurd | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A term used by Aristotle to describe some sort of emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a successful tragedy.
🗑
|
||||
| Chorus | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A type of drama, opposed to tragedy, having usually a happy ending, and emphasizing human limitation rather than human greatness.
🗑
|
||||
| Scornful Comedy | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | A type of comedy whose likable and sensible main characters are placed in difficulties from which they are rescued at the end of the play, either attaining their ends or having their good fortunes restored.
🗑
|
||||
| show | A situation containing apparently but not actually incompatible elements.
🗑
|
||||
| Plot Manipulation | show 🗑
|
||||
| Dramatic Framework | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Drama that attempts, in content and in presentation, to preserve the illusion of actual, every day life.
🗑
|
||||
| Sarcasm | show 🗑
|
||||
| Satire | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Drama that, in content, presentation, or both, departs markedly form fidelity to the outward appearances of life.
🗑
|
||||
| Tragedy | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Mrs. Munson
Popular Academic Vocabulary sets