Vocabulary
An extended speech by one person
What is Monologue?
Joyous play, ends happily, often with a wedding or well matched couples getting together.
What is Comedy?
Style of Writing Depending on Word Choices
What is Diction?
Showing willingness to allow the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with
What is tolerant?
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play
What is Soliloquy?
(A written work with a sad ending where the hero either dies or ends up mentally, emotionally, or spiritually devastated beyond recovery)
What is Tragedy
Word Order
What is Syntax?
Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial
What is Contentious?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter
What is Free Verse?
An enveloping conflict (war, rebellion, jealousy, treachery, intrigue) that may cover a large timespan (conflict begun a generation or more before the events of the play) and is resolved at the end of the play.
What is Romance?
Unique personal quality conveyed through the author's writing.
What is voice?
A reference to something well known
What is Allusion?
Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
What is Blank Verse?
Shows who or what owns or possesses something
Having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently
What is Articulate?
The rhythm, or meter, established by the words in that line
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Showing strong, forceful, passionate, or intense feeling
What is Vehement?
A symbolic image or idea that appears frequently in a story
What is Motif?