Facets of Drama 2
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- mystery plays
- biblical dramas performed on feast days by trade and craft guilds, created mystery cycles, covering the history of the world
- irony
- contrast between expectation and reality, surprises reader, easily overlooked, misinterpreted
- incongruity
- contradictory, discrepant, inconsistent, disharmonius, actions or words of a character, pieces that don't it into the page
- figures of speech
- words not used in their typical or literal way; phrases crafted in order to suggest a picture of rimage, a unique way of expressing something
- imagery
- words and phrases that create vivid sensory experiences for the reader, appeals to the senses
- foreshadowing
- a writer's use of hints of clues that suggest what events will occur later in the narrative. Creates suspense and prepares readers for whats to come
- miracle plays
- dramas of saint's lives
- mood
- the feeling of atmosphere a writer creates for the reader
- morality plays
- plays dealing with the moral struggles of everyday people
- flashbacks
- an account of a conversation, episode, or event that happened before the beginning of a sotry. Helps readers understand characters current situation. Descriptions, reminsces, dream sequences
- foils
- a character who provides a striking contrast to another character can enhance a character or call attention to certain traits possessed by the main character
- interior monologue
- style of fiction that takes as its subject the flow of thoughts, responses, and sensations of one or more characters. A record of the total workings of the character's mind and emotions