Drama Vocab (English 9)

Large division of a play (typically 5 in Shakespeare)

• Act

• Rhyme Scheme

• Monologue

• Aside

Division within the act in a play

• Act

• Scene

• Blank Verse

• Foil

The introduction to a play or book

• Prologue

• Monologue

• Dialogue

• Tragedy

A remark made on stage that other characters aren't supposed to hear

• Act

• Comedy

• Aside

• Soliloquy

Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

• Rhyme Scheme

• Foil

• Comedy

• Blank Verse

The pattern of rhyming word in poetry

• Rhyme Scheme

• Blank Verse

• Allusion

• Couplet

A speech made by a character who thinks they are alone on stage to convey thoughts and feelings

• Monologue

• Couplet

• Tragic hero

• Soliloquy

A long speech made by one character

• Dialogue

• Solioquy

• Monologue

• Comedy

Conversation beween characters

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Solioquy

• Prologue

A situation in which the audience knows more about what is happening than the characters do

• Tragedy

• Dramatic Irony

• Comedy

• Allusion