Drama Terms

When a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage 

• aside
• solilouy
• monologue
• comedy

When the audience knows about a situation or something that is happening in the plot but the characters in the story don’t know. 

• dramatic irony
• situational irony
• verbal irony
• nonsens irony

A character who contrasts with another character in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character 

• personification
• paradox
• oxymoron
• foil

The speech of a single character is presented in order to express their thoughts and ideas aloud. 

• soliloquy
• aside
• monologue
• metaphor

When a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections 

• soliloquy
• metaphor
• monologue
• aside

A play that is amusing and satirical in its tone, mostly having cheerful ending. The characters triumph over unpleasant circumstance by which to create comic effects, resulting in a successful conclusion. 

• theme
• history
• comedy
• tragedy

A lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths dealing with a somber theme carried to a tragic or disastrous conclusion. 

• catastrophe
• tragedy
• paradox
• comedy

A trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of the literary piece. 

• tragic flaw
• symbol
• theme
• metaphor

Romeo & Juliet is a:

• Tragedy
• Comedy
• History
• Catastrophe

A larger drama is divided into these sections.  I am bigger than a scene.  What am I?

• Stage directions
• Dialogue
• Props
• Acts

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