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13 Cards in this Set
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Chorus |
A group of characters in drama, who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. |
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Soliloquy |
A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. |
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Monologue |
A speech by a single character without another character's response. |
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Asides |
Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play. |
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Prologue |
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Prose |
A prose is dialogue with no structure and a natural flow of speech. (Usually shows characters that are non-nobles eg. the nurse, servants) |
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Sonnet |
The opening chorus of a play. A Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. |
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Foot |
A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. |
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Rhymed verse |
Rhymed structure that uses iambic pentameter. eg. prologue sonnet ABAB CDCD EFEF GG |
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Verse |
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Blank verse |
Iambic pentameter but with no rhyming. |
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Iambic pentameter |
A rhythmic structure that has 10 syllables or 5 feet. (1 foot = 2 syllables. One stressed, one not) |
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Quatrain |
A four-line stanza in a poem. A Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet. |
