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Drama Terms

Romeo and Juliet

By: William ShakespeareSlide2

Elizabethan Terms:

The Elizabethan Era

was named after Queen Elizabeth I of England (who reigned from 1558-1604).

Renaissance

: A period of rebirth, originating in Italy in the 1300’s. This was a time during which great accomplishments were made in science, art and literature (lots of change)Slide3

Elizabethan Terms (cont.):

Elizabethan Drama

: Playwrights turned away from writing about religious subjects and began writing more sophisticated plays, drawing on ancient Greek and Roman models.Slide4

Concepts in Drama

Soliloquy

: A speech by a person who is talking to him/herself; used to reveal their inner thoughts and feelings to the audience

Monologue

: A talk/speech by a single speaker who is speaking alone but others can hear them (kind of like a solo in a musical)

Aside

: Words spoken so as not to be heard by the other characters, but are intended for the audience only (think Ferris

Bueller’s

Day Off).

Foreshadowing

: Verbal or dramatic hints in the play of what will happen later.

Foreboding

: Verbal or dramatic hints that something bad or tragic will happen later.Slide5

Concepts in Drama:

Tragedy:

Plays where disaster falls upon the hero/heroine (unlike comedies where everyone gets married in the end, in tragedies, the characters usually die in the end)

Tragic Hero

: A character who makes an error in Judgment or has a fatal flaw, which leads to their own demise or the demise of others (example: Batman/Bruce Wayne from Dark Knight Rises)

Foil

: A character who contrasts well with another character in order to highlight the differences between the two (example:

Mufasa

vs Scar in The Lion King/ Harry Potter and Ron)Slide6

Concepts in Drama:

Apostrophe:

An address to someone who is absent and cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot understand. An apostrophe allows the speaker to think aloud.

Symbolism

: when a person, place, or thing figuratively represents something else. Often the idea is abstract while the symbol is concrete.

Stage

Directions

: an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lightingSlide7

Concepts in Drama:

Allusion

: A reference, in literature, to something either directly or by implication

Dramatic Irony

: When the audience knows what is going on, but the characters do not

Verbal Irony

: The literal meaning is the opposite of the implied meaning. Must occur in spoken dialogue.

Cosmic Irony

: The suggestion that a god or fate controls and meddles with human lives

Comic Relief

: An amusing scene, incident or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic actionSlide8

Concepts in Drama:

Motif

: Recurring idea (pattern) in literature

Anachronism

: Object out of place/time (like a computer in the wild west)

Pun

: the humorous use of a word/phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time (a deliberate joke)

Ambiguity

: The use of a word or expression to mean more than one idea (non-humorous)

Oxymoron

:

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction Slide9

Form and Structure Terms:

Meter

: Poetic measure; the arrangement of words in a regularly measured, patterned, or rhythmic lines/verses

Blank Verse

: Verse where the lines do not rhyme, but they share the same meter (usually iambic pentameter)Slide10

Form and Structure Terms:

Iamb

: An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

Iambic Pentameter

: five verse feet with each foot in an iamb (ten syllable line with the pattern going stressed, unstressed, stress, unstressed)Slide11

Poetry Terms:

Couplet

: two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

Quatrain

: a poem or stanza within a poem, always consisting of 4 lines.Slide12

Poetry Terms:

Sonnet

: 14 line poem written in iambic pentameter

English (Shakespearean) Sonnet

: Has 3 quatrains, and ends with a couplet. A Shakespearean sonnet has a specific rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG)Slide13

Sonnet 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion

dimm’d

;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course

untrimm’d

;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou

owest

;

Nor shall Death brag thou

wander’st

in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou

growest

:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee