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Elements of drama
Elements of drama 2
Elements of drama 3
Shakespeare's language
100
Famous playwright who wrote the play entitled "Julius Caesar"
Who is Shakespeare?
100
Division of an act into smaller parts
What is a scene?
100
Lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience.
What is "aside"?
100
Language used to evoke images in your mind. Example: Her blue eyes were as bright as the sun, as blue as the sky, but as soft as silk.
What is imagery?
200
The division within a play. Example: Chapters in a novel
What is an act?
200
Long speech spoken by a character to himself, to another character or to the audience.
What is a monologue?
200
When the audience, or reader, knows something that the characters in the story do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
200
Figure of speech that compares 2 things. Example: "As agile as a monkey"
What is a simile?
300
List of characters presented before the action begins.
What is a cast of characters?
300
Italicized comments in a script that identify parts of the settings, the use of props and costumes, or that give more information about a character. Example: A street, that night. Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio & others with torches and drum
What are stage directions?
300
Thoughts spoken aloud by a character.
What is a soliloquy?
300
A play on words that either sound alike or that have multiple meanings. Example: Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
What is a pun?
400
Conversation between 2 or more characters.
What is a dialogue?
400
A humourous work of drama.
What is a comedy?
400
Serious work of drama in which the hero suffers catastrophy or misfortune.
What is a tragedy?
400
Phrases or words which have double meanings. Example: Stolen painting found by tree.
What is a double entendre?
500
A work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience.
What is drama?
500
Rhythm of Shakespeare's sonnets. Example: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
What is iambic pentameter?
500
A protagonist with a fatal flaw which eventually leads to his death.
What is a tragic hero?
500
2 rhyming lines at the end of a speech or at the end of a sonnet.
What is a rhyming couplet?