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Drama
Two main forms are tragedy and comedy, but other forms include history and romance
A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character
Protagonist
the main character in a literary work: main or most important characters.
Antogonist
A character or force in conflict with the main character: the bad guy typically.
The time and place of a story
Comedy
Is a story that ends happily and usually involves common people who are in humorous scenes and situations.
Character
A person in a story; characters whom the story revolves, characters who may never speak, characters who are seen or heard.
Sequence of events in a story
Conflict
A struggle between two opposing forces
Act
A major division of a play; like a chapter in a book.
Who's the best teacher?
Tiemeyer, duhhhh.
Dialogue
Conversation between two or more characters
Stage Directions
an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
Theme
What is the main idea of the story? What is the lesson it teaches you?
Scene
a division of an act into smaller parts
Double Entendre
a word or phrase open to two interpretations, one of which is usually risqué or indecent.
Monologue
(n.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person
Pun
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Lambic Pentameter
a line of poetry that contains five iambic feet; an iamb is a foot consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable
Lamb
A unit in poetry consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Soliloquy
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
Aside
a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage
Chorus
A group that says things at the same time; a group that acts as a narrator speaking to the audience.
Dramatic Irony
when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't
Foil
A character who is in most ways opposite to the main character (protagonist) or one who is nearly the same as the protagonist. The purpose of the foil character is to emphasize the traits of the main character by contrast only