front 1 Drama | back 1 Meant to be performed in front of an audience |
front 2 Comedy | back 2 Deals with serious subject matter in a light-hearted way; has a happy ending. |
front 3 Tragedy | back 3 Deals with serious subject matter in a serious way; no happy ending. |
front 4 Tragic Hero | back 4 Main character of a tragedy that suffers from a tragic flaw. |
front 5 Tragic Flaw | back 5 Personality trait that leads to the downfall / death of the main character (tragic hero) |
front 6 Dramatic Foil | back 6 Two characters with opposite personality traits |
front 7 Monologue | back 7 A long speech given by ONE character while on the stage with others (he knows others can hear him). |
front 8 Soliloquy | back 8 A long speech given by ONE character while ALONE on stage. Meant to share thoughts/feelings with audience members only. |
front 9 Dialogue | back 9 A conversation between two or more characters. |
front 10 Aside | back 10 A quick comment made by an actor (while on stage with others) meant to be heard by the audience only. |
front 11 Chance Happening | back 11 A seemingly accidental event that changes the course of the play. |
front 12 Comic Relief | back 12 A short funny episode that follows (or interrupts) an intense scene. Meant to be a “tension breaker.” |
front 13 Prologue | back 13 The part of the play that serves as the introduction; summarizes upcoming events. |
front 14 Chorus | back 14 An actor (or group) that act as onlookers (narrators) and deliver (say) the prologue. |
front 15 Blank Verse | back 15 Verse in unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line = 5 stressed / 5 unstressed). |
front 16 Free Verse | back 16 Poetry that has no fixed pattern |
front 17 Sonnet | back 17 A 14 lined poem that follows a strict rhyming pattern (abab / cdcd / efef / gg). |
front 18 Dramatic Irony | back 18 When the audience knows something that the characters do not know. |
front 19 Verbal Irony | back 19 When a character says one thing but means something else |
front 20 Situational Irony | back 20 When the ending turns out differently than expected. |