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Drama Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Blank Verse | Unrhymed Lambic Pentameter |
| Meter | Regular rhythmic pattern in language |
| Poetry | Concentrated Language |
| Prose | Ordinary Everyday Language |
| Iamb | Unit of speech that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stress syllable |
| Iambic Pentameter | A line of poetry that contains 5 iambs |
| Tragic Hero | A high social rank- a king, a prince, or a general, faces his or her downfall with courage and dignity. |
| Tragic Flaw | An error in judgement or character defect-that ultimately leads to his or her downfall |
| Dramatic Irony | Results when the audience knows more than one or more of the characters, and helps build suspense |
| Soliloquy | A speech given by a character alone on stage, used to reveal his or her private thoughts and feelings |
| aside | A characters remark,either to the audience or to another character, that no one else on stage is supposed to hear |
| Drama | Drama is literature in which plots and characters are developed through dialogue and action; literature in play form |
| Irony | Irony is a special kind of contrast between appearance and reality usually one in which reality is the opposite of what it seems |
| Dramatic Irony | Where the reader or viewers knows something that a character does not know. |
| Verbal Irony | When someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another |
| Extended Metaphor | A figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike things at some length and in several ways. |
| Foil | A character who provides a striking contrast to another character |
| Sonnet | A lyric poem of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic pentameter |
| Couplet | A rhymed pair of lines ; may be written in any rhythmic pattern |
| Quatrain | A four line stanza or group of lines in poetry. |
| Omen | An event regarded as a portent of good or evil. |
| Rhyme Scheme | A pattern of end rhymes in a poem; noted by assigning a letter of the alphabet, beginning with a, to each line |
| Anachronism | A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned. |
| Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. |
| Rhetorical Question | A figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point, rather than to elicit an answer. |
| Anaphora | The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. |
| Logos | The logic used to support a claim (induction and deduction); can also be the facts and statistics used to help support the argument. |
| Ethos | The source's credibility, the speaker's/author's authority |
| Pathos | The emotional or motivational appeals; vivid language, emotional language and numerous sensory details. |
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