TRAGEDY
VERSE
DRAMA TERMS
ROMAN & SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS
RANDOM
100
A play in which the tragic hero's downfall and death affect the general public.
What is a TRAGEDY?
100
The poetic form of writing.
What is VERSE?
100
A long speech given by one person.
What is a MONOLOGUE?
100
The VISUAL BACKGROUND on a stage that tells you where the action is taking place.
What is the "SET"
100
Where most of Shakespeare's play were performed.
What is the GLOBE THEATER?
200
The protagonist whose death is caused by his tragic flaw.
What is a TRAGIC CHARACTER/HERO?
200
Written or spoken language in its ordinary form.
What is PROSE?
200
Conversation between two or more people.
What is DIALOGUE?
200
It's something that actors WEAR to LOOK LIKE their characters and to make themselves as more believable as those characters.
What are "COSTUMES"
200
The man that some believe to be the true author of Shakespeare's plays.
Who is EDWARD DEVERE?
300
A STRUGGLE OR PROBLEM a character must solve by the end of the story or play. It is usually someone or something that tests, or challenges, a character.
What is CONFLICT
300
A line consisting of five iambs (two feet each) that equates to ten syllables. The lines rhyme.
What is IAMBIC PENTAMETER?
300
A long speech that expresses internal thoughts given by a character alone on stage.
What is a SOLILOQUY?
300
It's something that actors WEAR to LOOK LIKE their characters and to make themselves as more believable as those characters.
What is a "PROP"
300
The number of plays that Shakespeare wrote. OR The type of government that U.S.A. has.
What is 37? What is a DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC?
400
Excessive pride or self confidence; this is often the tragic flaw of tragic heroes.
What is HUBRIS?
400
Actors use these with, and sometimes without, speaking to help convey messages or emotions. Sometimes these are done with the body (such as nodding, waving, or shrugging) but also with facial expressions (such as smiling or frowning).
What is GESTURES?
400
A remark intended for only the audience to hear.
What is an ASIDE?
400
It is the written version of a play, movie, or show. Actors learn their lines from this and it tells them what to do and say. It describes all the details about the story.
What is a SCRIPT?
400
The title of someone who writes plays. (Spelling counts!) OR The type of government that Rome had at the start of the play.
What is a PLAYWRIGHT? What is a REPUBLIC?
500
The other two types of plays that Shakespeare wrote.
What are HISTORIES and COMEDIES?
500
The in-text citation for line 154 from act 3, scene 4 in one of Shakespeare's plays.
(Shakespeare 3.4.154).
500
A reference to something well known in literature, art, architecture, film, etc.
What is an ALLUSION?
500
The SERIES OF EVENTS of a story; the BEGINNING, MIDDLE, and END.
What is PLOT?
500
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, this is the reason why the commoners (plebeians) speak in prose and the wealthy (patricians) speak in verse.
What is TO DEFINE CLASS DISTINCTION?
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