Drama Terms

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.

• Repetition

• Parallelism

• Aside

• Side Notes

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

• Tragic Hero

• Soliloquy

• Archetype

• Foreshadowing

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

Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

• Iambic Pentameter

• Blank Verse

• Repetition

• Paraphrase

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

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

• Tragic Flaw

• Soliloquy

• Catastrophe

• Tragedy

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

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

• Stage Directions

• Side Notes

• Rhetorical Questions

• Dramatic Irony

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

• Archetype

• Aside

• Foreshadowing

• Tragic Hero

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• Parallelism

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Side Note

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.

• Dramatic Irony

• Parallelism

• Soliloquy

• Aside

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 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 Notes

• Aside

• Soliloquy

• Foreshadowing

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.

• Parallelsim

• Repetition

• Iambic Pentameter

• Aside

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4