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Drama Terms

Drama Terms. Romeo and Juliet By: William Shakespeare. Elizabethan Terms:. The Elizabethan Era was named after Queen Elizabeth I of England (who reigned from 1558-1604).

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Drama Terms

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  1. Drama Terms Romeo and Juliet By: William Shakespeare

  2. Elizabethan Terms: • The Elizabethan Era was named after Queen Elizabeth I of England (who reigned from 1558-1604). • Renaissance: A period of rebirth, originating in Italy in the 1300’s. This was a time during which great accomplishments were made in science, art and literature (lots of change) • Elizabethan Drama: Playwrights turned away from writing about religious subjects and began writing more sophisticated plays, drawing on ancient Greek and Roman models.

  3. Drama Terms • Soliloquy: A speech by a person who is talking to him/herself; used to reveal their inner thoughts and feelings to the audience • Monologue: A talk/speech by a single speaker who is speaking alone but others can hear them (kind of like a solo in a musical) • Aside: Words spoken so as not to be heard by the other characters, but are intended for the audience only (think Ferris Bueller’sDay Off).

  4. Drama Terms Continued: • Tragedy: Plays where disaster falls upon the hero/heroine (unlike comedies where everyone gets married in the end, in tragedies, the characters usually die in the end) • Tragic Hero: A character who makes an error in Judgment or has a fatal flaw, which leads to their own demise or the demise of others (example: Batman/Bruce Wayne from Dark Knight Rises) • Apparition: A supernatural appearance of a person/thing, especially a ghost or phantom (like in A Christmas Carol when Scrooge is visited by 3 ghosts) • Foil: A character who contrast well with another character; they are perfect opposites (example: Edward and Jacob in Twilight)

  5. Literary terms: • Allusion: A reference, in literature, to something either directly or by implication • Dramatic Irony: When the audience knows what is going on, but the characters do not! • Tone (*): The way something is said, the way is sounds and the emotion conveyed(example: If you sass your mom, she might say, “Don’t take that tone of voice with me young lady”) • Motif: Recurring idea (pattern) in literature • Anachronism: Object out of place/time (like a computer in the wild west) • Pun: the humorous use of a word/phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time

  6. Form and Structure Terms: • Meter: Poetic measure; the arrangement of words in a regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines/verses • Blank Verse: Verse where the lines do not rhyme, but they share the same meter (usually iambi pentameter) • Iamb: An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable • Iambic Pentameter: five verse feet with each foot in an iamb (ten syllable line with the pattern going stressed, unstressed, stress, unstressed)

  7. Poetry Terms: • Couplet: two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme • Quatrain: a poem or stanza within a poem, always consisting of 4 lines. • Sonnet: 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter • English (Shakespearean) Sonnet: Has 3 quatrains, and ends with a couplet

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