COAHTR Dramatic Devices

The audience feelings being purged and released at the end of a tragedy is called

• anagnorisis

• catharsis

• pathos

• bathos

anagnorisis is

• the point in which the tragic hero dies and is mourned by the other characters

• the tragic flaw of the main protagonist

• the point in a play in which a principal character recognises or discovers another character's true identity or the true nature of their own circumstances.

• a feeling of immense sadness that overcomes the principal character.

Choose the correct dramatic device.

A clash between people, values, or ideas.

• conflict

• stage battle

• context

• emotion

Choose the correct dramatic device.

The audience knows something that one or more of the characters in a play does not know.

• theatrical secret

• red herring

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

Choose the correct dramatic device.

A speech given by one character who is speaking to other characters on stage.

• monologue

• dialogue

• soliloquy

• aside

which of these are examples of non-verbal dramatic technique

• dialogue

• lighting

• direct address

• stage directions

which of these are examples of verbal dramatic technique

• aside

• direct address

• facial expression

• dialogue

The power of a person, situation, piece of writing, or work of art to cause feelings of sadness, especially because people feel sympathy is called

• catharsis

• pathos

• logos

• ethos

An introduction to a literary work is a...

• epilogue

• malapropism

• prologue

• crisis

device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story is called

• forewarning

• foregrounding

• foreboding

• foreshadowing