Drama Vocabulary

Question 1

is a play that can be performed for theatre, radio, or even television.

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Drama

Question 2

a line poetry of ten syllables arranged in five metrical feet (iambs), each of which consists of an unstressed syllable

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Iambic Pentameter

Question 3

A poetic measurement in a systematic arrangement involving stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Poetic Meter

Question 4

It is device in which the reader or audience knows more than the characters they are following.

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Dramatic Irony

Question 5

a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character. Given by a character with other characters present.

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Monologue

Question 6

is a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.

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Foreshadowing

Question 7

is a speech or short comment that a character delivers directly to an audience. Other characters can not hear.

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Aside

Question 8

directly plays with the sounds and meanings of words to create new and surprising sentences.

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Pun

Question 9

A play that ends in death

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Tragedy

Question 10

is a reference to a well-known person, character, place, or event outside the text.

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Allusion

Question 11

a pair of end-rhymed lines of verse that are self-contained in grammatical structure and meaning.

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Couplet

Question 12

A comparison using like or as.

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Simile

Question 13

is a literary term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.

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Blank Verse

Question 14

is a character who contrasts with another character.

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Foil

Question 15

is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings

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Oxymoron

Question 16

the arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, side-by-side for the purpose of comparison.

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Juxtaposition

Question 17

is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter

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Sonnet

Question 18

when a character in a dramatic work speaks directly to the audience, expressing their inner thoughts.

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Soliloquy

Question 19

a comparison of two different things that is achieved by a figurative equation of those things. (He is a cheetah).

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Metaphor

Question 20

statement that appears to contradict itself, but later reveals a deeper meaning or actually makes sense.

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Paradox

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