Drama Terms
drama vocabulary
Terms
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- denotation
- dictionary definition of a word
- drama
- 1. a story 2. told in action 3. by actors who impersonate the characters of a story' Professor J.M. Manly saw these elements
- protagonist
- main character who drives the action
- activity
- the small tasks that a character does
- motive
- what drives the character to reach/obtain their goal/objective
- antagonist
- a character who opposes or blocks the protagonist and/or action
- allusion
- a reference to a person, place, thing, event, or statement well known in the past
- farce
- drama/comedy with ridicules/absurd characters or situations
- action
- the main events that move a play along
- archetype
- the original type from which others are patterned to; a prototype
- metaphor
- a comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is something else/becoming another thing without the words like, as, or resemble
- foil
- a character who is used to contrast another character
- diction
- word choice
- objective
- something you want to achieve
- monologue
- a composition, oral or written, presenting the discourse of one speaker only; by convention, others are present, but do not speak
- comedy
- the protagonist has an objective and achieves that objective
- fiction
- not true
- mood
- the general, overall feeling; atmosphere, the feeling created in the reader
- stereotype
- a geralization on a group of people based on limited information; smaller than a type
- prose
- literary expression that is not marked by regular rhyme or meter [not poetry]
- soliloquy
- a speech of a character in a play or other composition delivered while the speaker is alone [solus] and calculated ot inform the audience or reader of what is passing in their mind
- sonnet
- 14 lines, rhyming iambic pentameter--10 syllables per line
- pun
- a play on words or multiple meanings on words; or 2 words that sound alike and have different meanings
- blank verse
- unrhymed iambic pentameter
- sonnet rhyme sceme
- ABAB[quatraine]; CDCD[quatraine]; EFEF[quatraine]; GG[couplet]; the first three are quatraines
- juxtaposition
- putting things side by side & contrasting them
- type
- a kind, class, or group characterized by commonalities
- justification
- the reason or why you do something
- aside
- words spoken by a character in a ply to the audience/another character that are not heard by other characters on-stage
- connotation
- the implication of a word
- iambic pentameter
- line of poetry that contains 3 iams [units which consist of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one, as in the word, arise]
- genre
- type of literature
- dialogue
- conversation between 2 or more people
- symbol
- a person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself & for something beyond it
- stage directions
- directions taht tell actors what to do on-stage
- poetry/verse
- literary expression that has meter and rhyme
- history
- drama based on historical facts or dealings with past events