Drama Terms
Rhetorical Devices
Literary Elements
Sentence Variety
Vocabulary
100
an error or weakness
What is tragic flaw?
100
“Nothing is closer to me than your happiness. What could be closer?”
What is pathos?
100
“The bray of bragging tongues”
What is alliteration?
100
These are the principles I’ll use in order to protect our state.
What is simple?
100
"We have now spent five evening together. We have gotten along splendidly. It is clear we are well matched."
What is Hasty Generalization?
200
drama that follows the downfall of a superior character.
What is tragedy?
200
“Yet there are other men who can reason too, and their opinions might be helpful.”
What is logos?
200
“He the wild eagle screaming insults above our land”
What is personification?
200
While standing above our homes, he ranged around our seven gates, and his spears were thirsting to kill.
What is compound-complex?
200
"You can't go with him Polly. He's a liar. He's a cheat. He's a rat."
What is poisening the well?
300
a superior character
Who is tragic hero?
300
“Do you want me to show myself weak in front of these people? Or break my sworn word? No. I will not!”
What is Ethos?
300
“A small room, still as any grave, enclosed her”
What is simile?
300
That’s why I brought you here, outside the gates, so only you can hear.
What is compound?
300
"five dates is plenty. After all, you don't have to eat a whole cake to know it's good."
What is false analogy?
400
leader of the chorus
Who is choragus?
400
“You do well to listen to him, King, if what he says is sensible. And you Haemon, must listen to your father.”
What is logos?
400
"You're wrong from the start, you're off on a hopeless quest"
What is foreshadowing?
400
He’s honoring one with a full funeral and treating the other one disgracefully!
What is simple?
400
"Polly I love you. You are the whole world to me, and the moon, and the stars, and the consellations in outer space. Please my darling, say that you will go steady with me, for if you will not, life will be meaningless. I will languish. I will refuse my meals. I will wander the Earth, a shambling, hollow-eyed hulk."
What is Ad Miscordiam?
500
the audience is aware of something the characters do not know
What is dramatic irony?
500
“My voice is the one voice giving orders in this city!"
What is ethos?
500
“Love, unconquerable, waster of rich men, keeper of warm nights”
What is personification?
500
Anyone who’s well disposed towards our state, that man I will respect.
What is complex?
500
"You musn't take all these things so seriously. I mean this is just classroom stuff. You know that the things you learn in school don't have anything to do with life."
What is dicto simplicitor?
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