drama_terms

Audience has important information that characters in a literary work do not have.

Conversation between two characters.

A long speech spoken by a character in a dramatic work, usually alone onstange. Normally this reveals the inner thoughts and emotions of the character.

A long speech expressing thought by one character to another character.

A comment made by a character to only some characters, or to the audience.

Humorous use of a word with two meanings.

Variation of standard language spoken by a group of people of a particular region.

Written instructions that explain how a character should act.

• Ordinary writing that is not poetry, drama, or song.
• -In Shakespeare's plays, only characters of a lower social class speak in prose.

• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that give a line of poetry a predictable rhythm.
• -The unit of measurement within a line is called a foot.

A meter made of 5 iambic feet to a line or verse.

Lines of dramatic verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

• A figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though being present.
• Ex. "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Writing that expresses or ridicules the vices or follies of people or societies.