Drama Terms: The Glass Menagerie

an insight about life and the human condition

• drama

• tone

• theme

• scene

a poetic form in which a single character, addressing a silent auditor at a critical moment, reveals himself or herself and the dramatic situation

• dramatic irony

• metaphor

• point of view

• dramatic monologue

These are widely used and accepted devices or techniques, as in drama, literature, or painting

• conventions

• unconventional

• limitations

conversation between characters in a drama or narrative

• prologue

• exposition

• dialogue

• oxymoron

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implied comparison

• metaphor

• oxymoron

a story written to be performed by actors

• manga

• meme

• drama

dramas are divided into large units called ______

• acts

• scenes

dramas are divided into smaller units called ______

• acts

• scenes

the writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject

• scene

• theme

• dialogue

• tone

feeling or mood created in the reader by a literary work (influenced by the setting, tone and events)

• conventions

• prologue

• atmosphere