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EQ: Why do we learn key vocabulary?. Try to translate the next slide. The difficulty of your set could be increased if you do a jam followed by a peach.
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EQ: Why do we learn key vocabulary? Try to translate the next slide.
The difficulty of your set could be increased if you do a jam followed by a peach.
Translation:The point values you can earn on your gymnastics routine can be bigger if you include, in sequence, two particular skills on the uneven parallel bars: the "jam," which leaves the gymnast sitting on the high bar; and the "peach," where the gymnast moves from the high bar to the low bar. -
tragedy -a drama in which the main character meets with disaster or misfortune as a result of fate or a serious character flaw Ex. Romeo and Juliet
Tragic hero -an individual with considerable social standing whose character is neither good nor bad. This character suffers some sort of downfall or even death. The audience is to identify with this hero. Ex. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet
Tragic Flaw -a character trait(lust, envy, greed, stubbornness, pride, selfishness) of the tragic hero that brings about his or her own downfall.
prologue -an introductory statement of a play that gives information that establishes setting, introduces characters, or indicates a theme or moral that the author wishes to convey
Denouement -the end of the play; like the conclusion or resolution of a story.
chorus -a group of people who comment on the actions of the play or who introduce the prologue; think narrator
aside -a remark made to the audience, unheard by other characters, expressing the character's thoughts.
soliloquy -a speech in which a character alone on stage expresses his or her thoughts to the audience. The character is thinking aloud.
Monologue -a lengthy speech addressed to other characters, not the audience.
sonnet -a 14-line poem consisting of 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet commonly used by Shakespeare in his plays
Stage Directions -notes within a drama that tell how a character should move on stage
oxymoron -two opposite or contradictory words juxtaposed “Bittersweet, sweet and sour, wicked good”
pun -a play on words that uses one word that has different meanings Ex. ‘plane’ wrong
Dramatic Irony -a situation in which the audience knows more than the characters on stage
Situational Irony -the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what we expect. Winning the lottery and dying the next day is situational irony.
Verbal Irony -When a person says one thing yet means another
Round Characters -possess many character traits; more like real people
Flat Characters one-dimensional characters; possess just one character trait
Foil -characters who highlight or bring out the personality traits of another character by contrasting with the other character
Playwright -the author of the play; Shakespeare is a playwright.
couplet -two rhyming lines found at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet
characterization Various means by which an author develops a character S-Says T-Thoughts E-Effects on Others A-Actions L-Looks
foreshadowing -hints of what’s to come in the play
metaphor -a direct comparison between two unlike objects. Ex. “Juliet is the sun”
simile -a comparison between two unlike objects using “like” or “as” “Lips as red as roses”
personification -giving human-like qualities to nonhuman things “daffodils dancing in the breeze”
Act a major division of a play; some plays may contain several
Scene A subdivision of a play; a change of setting or scenery might indicate a new scene
Epithet -a term or phrase used to describe a person or thing Ex. Richard, the lionhearted Dwayne, the rock, Johnson Odysseus, master of land ways and sea ways
