English 10- Drama Terms

What is a Scene?

• Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

• A division of an act presenting continuous action in one place.

• Is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry.

• The line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet.

What is an exit?

• an act of going out or leaving a place

• come or go into a place

• the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.

• characters that come into conflict with each other and other characters in believable ways, spurring characters development

What is Dialogue?

• a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program

• an act of going out of or leaving a place

• the ability to express oneself easily and articulately

• conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie

What does aside mean?

• is a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience.

• conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

• the ability to express oneself easily and articulately.

• a long, tedious speech by one person during a conversation.

What is the difference between a Flat character and a Round character?

• Round characters have the ability to express oneself easily and articulately.

• Round characters are complex and undergo development, sometimes sufficiently to surprise the reader.

• Flat characters are two-dimensional in that they are relatively uncomplicated and do not change throughout the course of a work.

• plainly or obviously; in a way that is clearly seen or understood.

What exactly are stage directions?

• a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

• In rhetoric and composition, refers to the listeners or spectators at a speech or performance.

• literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature.

• an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements.

Define Meter

• The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.

• is the basic rhythmic structure of a line within a work of poetry. It consists of two components: The number of syllables. A pattern of emphasis on those syllables.

• is a literary device that involves using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech.

• A figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates its sense.

Define Iambic Pentameter.

• a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable

• verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

• a long, tedious speech by one person during a conversation.

• a metrical foot consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

What is Intonation?

• is the way the pitch of your voice goes up and down as you talk or reciting something by singing it

• a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example

• a division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit.

• is a literary device that involves using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech.

What is fluency?

• refers to the writer's attitude toward the reader and the subject of the message.

• is the information and experiences that are directed toward an end-user or audience.

• is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression.

• an introductory sentence that states the text's title, author and main point of the text as you see it.