Drama Vocabulary

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. Example: Like father, like son.

•  Parallelism  

• Aside 

    

• Side Note 

•   Repetition 

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A literary device in which a character is created based on a set of actions and qualities that is recognizable to the reader. (Example: The Hero)

• Soliloquy 

   

•  Foreshadowing

•   Tragic Hero 

    

•   Archetype 

   

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CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

•  Repetition 

   

•   Iambic Pentameter 

   

•   Blank Verse 

•  Paraphrase 

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

A type of drama that presents a serious subject matter about human suffering and corresponding terrible events in a dignified manner.

 

•  Tragedy 

   

•  Tragic Flaw 

    

• Soliloquy 

    

• Catastrophe 

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Asked just for effect, or to lay emphasis on some point being discussed, when no real answer is expected.  May have an obvious answer, but the questioner asks it to lay emphasis to the point.

 

•   Side Notes 

•  Stage Directions 

• Dramatic Irony 

   

•  Rhetorical Questions 

    

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A person who faces adversity, or demonstrates courage, in the face of danger. However, sometimes he faces downfall as well.

 

• Foreshadow 

   

•  Tragic Hero 

    

• Aside 

    

•  Archetype 

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A literary device in which the intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words. For this specific device, characters are oblivious to the situation but the audience is not.

 

• Situational Irony 

•   Side Note 

    

•  Dramatic Irony 

    

• Parallelism 

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A popular literary device often used in drama to reveal the innermost thoughts of a character by having a character talk to herself or himself.

•   Soliloquy 

   

•  Parallelism 

•   Aside 

   

•  Dramatic Irony 

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CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

 A short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience, or to himself, while other actors on the stage appear not to hear. Only the audience knows that the character has said something to them.

•  Side Note 

• Foreshadowing 

   

•   Soliloquy 

    

•   Aside 

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

One of the most commonly used meters in English poetry. A beat or foot that uses 10 syllables in each line. Simply, it is a rhythmic pattern comprising five iambs in each line, like five heartbeats.

•  Parallelism 

•   Aside 

   

•   Iambic Pentameter 

•   Repetition 

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4