Drama Literary Terms 2024

Introduction to a play is called?

• Chorus

• Aside

• Prologue

• Monologue

Match the following

• comparing using like or as

• simile

• Give objects human characteristics

• metaphor

• A play on words -

• Personification

• directly compares

• Pun

• a reference to something famous/known

• Allusion

Rhythmical pattern of a poem

• Mood

• Meter

• Diction

• Tone

Match the following

• Play on words

• pun

• Figurative lang - appeals to the senses

• Dramatic Irony

• Central message

• Theme

• Audience knows, but characters don't

• Imagery

• Word choice

• Diction

The atmosphere and feeling created in the reader - a feeling you get when when you read something.

• Tone

• Mood

• Diction

• Chorus

Match the following

• Acts divided into -

• Quatrain

• 4 lines units that rhyme

• Stage directions

• Notes on how the actors are to perform

• Scenes

• 2 lines in a row that rhyme

• Mood

• Feeling a reader gets

• Rhymed Couplet

A length speech addressed to other characters in the play.

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Aside

• Dramatic Foil

A short speech directed to the audience (other characters pretend they can't hear).

• Chorus

• Pun

• Aside

• Soliloquy

Match the following

• Long speech alone on stage

• Aside

• Long speech to the other characters

• Soliloquy

• Short speech other characters don't hear

• Chorus

• Attitude towards a given subject

• Monologue

• Read the prologue, epilogue, and comment

• Tone

A character that brings out the personality traits of another character. Usually by contrasting the other character.

• Chorus

• Dramatic Irony

• Dramatic Foil

• Shakespearean Sonnet