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22 Cards in this Set
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Aside |
dramatic device. brief comment spoken onstage to the audience but other characters on stage cannot hear it |
brief comment |
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Backdrop |
painted piece of wood or fabric hung at the back of the stage |
wood or fabric |
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Blank Verse |
When lines have a rhythm, but the ends of them do not rhyme |
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Comedy |
a play that has a happy ending |
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Dénouement |
“unraveling a tangled knot” : means the outcome of event, the final scene where everything is explained or resolved |
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Dramatic Irony |
The audience, being given more information, understands the situation more clearly than the characters do |
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Foreshadowing |
casting a shadow before a tragic event. the ominous atmosphere hints at disaster to come |
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Gesture |
small but meaningful movement : conveys emotion without words |
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Hyperbole |
exaggerated phrases and imagery |
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Iambic Pentameter |
10 beat line with 5 stressed beats |
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Metaphor |
a comparison without the words ‘like’ or ‘as’ |
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Monologue |
a long speech by one actor in a play |
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Oxymoron |
two that have, or seem to have opposite meanings |
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Personification |
the attributes of human characteristics to something non-human |
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Prologue |
speech from stage before the action begins |
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Prop |
object need for the stage performance that’s not scenery |
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Simile |
figure of speech that directly compares two different things - usually in a phrase that starts with the words ‘as’ or ‘like.’ |
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Setting |
time and place where the story is set |
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Soliloquy |
act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself. Used in drama to reveal innermost thoughts and feeling of a character |
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Sonnet |
poem with 14 lines, in the shape of 3 quatrains and one rhyming couplet |
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Theme |
central idea or theme that runs throughout the story |
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Tragedy |
play with an unhappy ending- often involving the death or 1 or more main characters |
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