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Dramatic Literary Terms

Dramatic Literary Terms. Drama. A story written and meant to be acted for an audience . Tragedy. A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character(s) come(s) to an unhappy end. Prologue.

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Dramatic Literary Terms

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  1. Dramatic Literary Terms

  2. Drama • A story written and meant to be acted for an audience

  3. Tragedy • A play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character(s) come(s) to an unhappy end

  4. Prologue • A short introduction at the beginning of a play that gives a brief overview of the plot

  5. Chorus • A group who says things at the same time

  6. Verbal Irony • A writer or speaker says one thing, but really means something completely different

  7. Dramatic Irony • The audience or reader knows something important that a character in a play or story does not know

  8. Monologue • A speech recited by one character in a play

  9. Soliloquy • An unusually long speech in which a character who is on stage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud

  10. Foil • A character who is used as a contrast to another character • The writer intensifies the qualities of the two characters this way

  11. Aside • Words that are spoken by a character in a play to the audience or to another character, but that are not meant to be overheard by the others onstage

  12. Comic Relief • Humour added that lessens the seriousness of the plot

  13. Sonnet • Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter that follows a set rhyme scheme

  14. Couplet • Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme • Couplets often signal the exit of a character or the end of a scene

  15. Prose • Direct, unadorned form of language, written or spoken, in ordinary use

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