Drama Terms Review

Aside

• A smaller section in a play

• An imaginary person who inhabits a literary work

• Speaking parts in a script

• Words spoken by the actor directly to the audience

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

The BEST definition of theme is...

• the moral of the fable

• what the author wants the reader to learn

• something that represents something else

• a comparison of two unlike things using like or as

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

When the audience knows more than the characters in the drama, that is...

• tragedy

• foil

• aside

• dramatic irony

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CCSS.L.8.5A

A central message, concern or purpose in a literary work. 

• Motifs

• Foil

• Theme

• Prose

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A play that ends in disaster for the main character. 

• Dramatic Irony

• Tragedy
• Tragic Flaw

• Antithesis

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

A soliloquy is different from a monologue because

• A soliloquy is giving a speech to the audience whereas a monologue is giving a speech to another character

• A soliloquy is giving a speech to another character whereas a monologue is giving a speech to the audience

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

Which one of these is considered a pun?

• It was like taking candy from a baby

• This is a piece of cake

• Kings worry about receding heir line

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CCSS.L.8.5A

Is alliteration used in the poem?

• Yes

• No

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

What is the word that will best complete the alliteration?

A chance to change is given to _____________ who chat a lot in class.

• characters

• children

• church

• cheese

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Two opposite ideas in the same sentence (ie "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...")

• Pun

• Motif

• Dramatic Irony

• Antithesis

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CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5