AP English Literature Drama Terms Flashcards

3829534087	Aside	A remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters on stage.	0
3829542004	Monologue	(n.) a speech by one actor; a long talk by one person	1
3829545954	Soliloquy	A dramatic speech, revealing inner thoughts and feelings, spoken aloud by one character while alone on the stage.	2
3829548456	Allusion	A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, mythical, literary or political significance.	3
3829550730	Foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	4
3829555779	Tragedy	A serious form of drama dealing with the downfall of a heroic or noble character	5
3829558316	Tragic Hero	A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on misfortune	6
3829567843	Tragic Flaw	the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall	7
3829570856	Verse	writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme	8
3829572135	Prose	Any writing that is not poetry	9
3829574220	Meter	A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry	10
3829574221	Foot	A metrical unit composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.	11
3829578739	Blank Verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	12
3829581877	Iambic Pentameter	a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable	13
3829585273	Free Verse	Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme	14
3829587017	Sonnet	A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter (classic definition); any fourteen-line poem (modern definition)	15
3829593600	Quatrain	A four-line stanza	16
3829595488	Octave	An eight-line stanza	17
3829600448	Sestet	A six-line stanza	18
3829604349	Couplet	Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; these lines can be part of a stanza or set apart as its own stanza	19