literary terms /drama
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- drama
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story written to be acted out
actors and actresses taking parts
tradegies and comedies - tragedies
- serious plays which hero or heroine suffers defeat or death
- lighting
- helps to establish the desired mood or the time of day or season
- climax
- emotional or suspenseful moment to keep audience interested
- monologue
- a long speech spoken by one character
- suspense
- makes reader uncertain or untense to wut is to happen next
- charcterization
- methods used to present the personaility of a character
- symbol
- thing that has meaning in itself but represents or stands for something else
- verbal irony
- when writer or speaker says one thing and means something completly different
- irony of a situation
- situation turns out completly different from what we expect
- dramatic irony
- when reader knows something character in play or story doesnt
- narration
- kind of writing or speaking that relates a story
- tone
- attitude writer takes to the subject
- inference
- a reasonable conclusion made about something based on clues
- theme
- main idea
- allusion
- referance of work to an actual event person or place which the speaker expects the audience to recognize