Drama Terms/Shakespeare

A long, uninterrupted speech given by a character while other characters remain on stage.

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Dialogue

• Monologue

A story/play that ends UNHAPPILY. 

• Comedy
• Tragedy
• Fiction
• Sadness

A play on words that is meant to be funny.

• Humor

• Soliloquy

• Pun

• Farce

When a character says something short to the audience or another character that the rest of the characters on stage DO NOT hear.

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Dialogue

• Monologue

Personality trait of the main character in a tragedy that leads to his/her downfall:

• Stupidity

• Tragic Flaw

• Climax

• Pun

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter:

• Blank Verse

• Free Verse

• Pros

• Dialogue

Instructions in the text of a play that indicate the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting:

• Playbill

• Italics

• Prose

• Stage Directions

Shakespeare often wrote in _____, which is a line of poetry containing 10 syllables that alternate unstressed and stressed syllables.

• Blank Verse

• Iambic Pentameter

• Script Write

• Pure Genius

A long speech in which a character who is onstage ALONE expresses his or her thoughts aloud:

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Dialogue

• Monologue

True or False: Boys/Men played the women's parts in plays during Shakespeare's time

• True
• False