Week 20: Vocabulary

a power that some people believe controls and decides everything that happens, in a way that cannot be prevented or changed

• Fate

• Tragedy

• Drama

• Aside

a type of literature, especially drama, that is serious and sad, and often ends with the death of the main character

• Drama

• Monologue

• Iambic Pentameter

• Tragedy

a serious play for the theatre, television, or radio

• Monologue

• Drama

• Fate

• Soliloquy

a comment that a character in a play makes to the audience, which the other characters are supposed not to be able to hear

• Drama

• Aside

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

 a long speech which is spoken by one person as an entertainment, or as part of an entertainment such as a play

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Iambic Pentameter

a speech in a play in which an actor speaks to himself or herself and to the audience, rather than to another actor

• Monologue

• Aside

• Couplet

• Soliloquy

a verse line consisting of five metrical iambs

• Drama

• Couplet

• Iambic Pentameter

• Aside

two lines of poetry which come next to each other, especially two lines that rhyme with each other and are the same length

• Monologue

• Couplet

• Iambic Pentameter

• Tragedy

When they got in trouble for throwing food, the boys had to listen to the principal's ___________ about how they should behave in the cafeteria.

Nora, Scarlett, and William were discussing a power that some people believe controls and decides everything that happens, in a way that cannot be prevented or changed. What were they discussing?