Short speech heard by the audience but not by the other characters in a play.
What is an aside?
100
One of the main divisions of a play or opera
What is an act?
100
The return of a work, phrase, stanza form, or effect in any form of literature
What is repetition?
100
a literary work that is amusing and ends well
What is comedy?
100
a person, or anything presented as a person, in a literary work
What is a character?
200
A long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of other characters
What is a monologue?
200
A division with no change of locale or abrupt shift of time
What is a scene?
200
A repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant characters, in a group of words
What is alliteration?
200
In general, a literary work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end
What is tragedy?
200
The spectacle a play presents in performance, including the position of actors on stage, the scenic background, the props and costumes, and the lighting and sound effects
What is staging?
300
A speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, along on stage, expresses his or her thoughts aloud
What is a soliloquy?
300
A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play
What are stage directions?
300
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
What is a couplet?
300
A story acted out, usually on a stage, by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters
What is drama?
300
a conversation between characters
What is dialogue?
400
A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter (in lines of ten syllables with a stress on every other syllable)
What is a sonnet?
400
Scenery and staging of a dramatic production
What is a set?
400
Usually, stanza or poem of four lines
What is a quatrain?
400
A willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment
What is suspension of disbelief?
400
Swollen Feet
What is the meaning of Oedipus?
500
Exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
An appendix (usually a concluding address) to a play