Unit 24
Terms
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- allusion
- brief reference to something outside the work the reader is expected to know
- asides
- A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage.
- blank verse
- unrhymed poetry with five pairs of syllables
- brawl
- A noisy fight in a crowd.
- comedy
- Light and humorous drama with a happy ending.
- comic relief
- humorous scene to relieve emotional intensity
- couplet
- A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed.
- drama
- A play intended for performance by actors on a stage.
- dramatist
- Someone who writes plays.
- foil
- character who personality or attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work
- iambic pentameter
- five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable
- meter
- regular pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry
- passages
- A section of test; particularly a section of medium length.
- playwright
- Some who writes plays.
- prologue
- An introduction to a play.
- soliloquy
- speach a character gives while alone on stage
- star-crossed
- doomed
- theater
- A building where theatrical performances can be presented
- tragedy
- Drama in which the protagonist is overcome with some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity.
- tragic hero
- a character with one or more fatal character flaws