Drama Vocabulary

A speech delivered by a character alone on stage to allow people to know what the character is thinking or feeling is known as?

• aside

• soliloquy

• iambic pentameter

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A long, uninterrupted speech by a character in a play?

• monologue

• soliloquy

• iambic pentameter

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Words spoken by a character in a

play, usually in an undertone and not

intended for other characters to hear.

• monologue

• soliloquy

• iambic pentameter

• aside

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A character who provides a contrast

to another character.

• monologue

• foil

• iambic pentameter

• aside

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Contrast between what the audience perceives and what a

character does NOT know.

• dramatic irony

• foil

• iambic pentameter

• aside

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

An event occurs that contradicts the expectations of the characters or the audience.

• dramatic irony

• foil

• situational irony

• aside

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

contrast between what is said and what is meant

• dramatic irony

• foil

• situational irony

• verbal irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

five verse feet with each foot an iamb (total of ten syllables).

• iambic pentameter

• foil

• situational irony

• verbal irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

2 syllables, one unstressed, followed by one stressed.

• iambic pentameter

• foil

• iamb

• verbal irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

• iambic pentameter

• foot

• iamb

• verbal irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9