Dramatic Lit. Terms
A written conversation between two or more characters.
What is Dialogue
An opponent, an enemy
What is an Adversary
“If you ever disturb our streets again/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”
Who is Prince
A struggle between two characters in a story
What is Man vs Man
A _______ resembles a sentence in two ways. Both groups of words begin with a capital letter and conclude with an end mark—usually a period [.] but sometimes a question mark [?] or an exclamation point [!].
What is fragment
A figure of speech that associates two unlike things.
What is Metaphor
To free from impurity, purify
What is Purge
“What, drawn and talk of peace! I hate the word/As I hate hell, all Montague's, and thee./Have at thee, coward!”
Who is Tybalt
Attitude of the writer toward a subject or an audience
What is tone
And yawned loudly enough to make everyone in class turn around. (Is this a sentence or fragment?)
What is fragment
A long speech by a character.
What is Monologue
Extremely great in ability, amount or strength
What is prodigious
“Many a morning hath he there been seen,/With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,/Adding to the clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;/But all so soon as the all-cheering sun.”
Who is Montague
A writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story
What is foreshadowing
Until Rachel notices the toilet paper stuck to her shoe. (Fix this fragment)
What is, Rachel notices the toilet paper stuck to her shoe.
A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas for the sake of emphasis.
What is Hyperbole
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, which thou wilt ______, to have it prest with more of thine. (Fill in the blank)
What is propagate
“Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love./Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!/ O anything of nothing first create!”
Who is Romeo
Audience understands what's going on in a situation while the characters are unaware of what is happening
What is Dramatic Irony
Because it was raining and stormy. (Independent or dependent clause?)
What is Dependent clause
Happens when a character dialogue is spoken but not heard by other character.
What is Aside
'Tis since the _____ of Lucentio, Come Pentecost as quickly as it will, Some five-and-twenty years, and then we mask'd. (Fill in the blank)
What is Nuptial
“She hath, and in that sparing make huge waste;/For beauty starv’d with her severity/Cuts beauty off from all posterity.”
Who is Romeo
Occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead
What is Situational Irony