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32 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Aside
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a brief remark spoken to the audience, unheard by other characters on stage
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Iambic Penameter
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ten syllable lines with each sound syllable stresssed or accented
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Monologue
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a long speach addresses to another character on stage
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Personification
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giving human qualities to a non-human object
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Tone
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a writer's attitude towards his subject or his audience
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Blank Verze
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unrhymed iambic penameter
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Soliloquy
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a speech made by a character who is alone on stage and makes the speech to the audience
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Imagery
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is the use of descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader. These pictures or images are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, or movement
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Foreshadowing
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the subtle use of cues to suggest plot events yet to occur
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Allusion
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a reference within a work of literature to another work of literature
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Act
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subdivision of a play
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Scene
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further subdivisoin of an act
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Comedy
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a play that ends happily
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Dialogue
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conversatoin of the characters in a play
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Dramatic Foil
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a secondary character who contrasts with a mojor character; the secondary character has traits that are difference from the major character and thus offers a contrast to the major character
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Tragedy
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a play that ends unhappily
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Melodrama
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a play designed to arouse intense emother by exaggeration and fast-movning action
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Protagonist
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the hero or leading character with whome the audience sympathizes
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Antagonist
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the character who opposes or competes with the protagonist
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Properties
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all of the stage furnishings, objects, etc.
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Pantomime
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actions without words of props
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Atmosphere
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mood or feeling
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Theme
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important central idea presented by the play
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Plot
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the chain of events the make up the play
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Farce
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highly exaggerated humorour play or skit
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Motivation
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reasons for character's beliefs or actions
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Stage Left
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left of the stage from the actor's point of view
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Stage right
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right of the stage from the actor's point of view
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Upstage
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area of the stage away from the footlights
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Downstage
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area of the stage towards the footlights
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Audience
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those who view the play and should be responsive to the action and the feeling or mood portrayed as the actors lead them into the play
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Actor
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person whose function it is to communicate words and emotions to an audience; he/she assumes the personality of the character
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