Drama Literary Terms 2025

Introduction to a play is called?

• Chorus

• Aside

• Prologue

• Monologue

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Match the following

• comparing using like or as

• Allusion

• directly compares

• Personification

• A play on words -

• Pun

• a reference to something famous/known

• simile

• Give objects human characteristics

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Rhythmical pattern of a poem

• Mood

• Meter

• Diction

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Match the following

• Audience knows, but characters don't

• Imagery

• Play on words

• Dramatic Irony

• Figurative lang - appeals to the senses

• Diction

• Word choice

• pun

• Central message

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• Tone

• Mood

• Diction

• Chorus

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Match the following

• 4 lines units that rhyme

• Stage directions

• 2 lines in a row that rhyme

• Quatrain

• Acts divided into -

• Rhymed Couplet

• Feeling a reader gets

• Mood

• Notes on how the actors are to perform

• Scenes

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A length speech addressed to other characters in the play.

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Aside

• Dramatic Foil

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

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

• Chorus

• Pun

• Aside

• Soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Match the following

• Read the prologue, epilogue, and comment

• Aside

• Attitude towards a given subject

• Chorus

• Short speech other characters don't hear

• Monologue

• Long speech to the other characters

• Tone

• Long speech alone on stage

• Soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

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

• Chorus

• Dramatic Irony

• Dramatic Foil

• Shakespearean Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10