Drama Terms - AP Lit Flashcards

6303857525	Drama	A story written to be performed by actors	0
6303857526	Dialogue	A conversation between characters	1
6303857527	Tragedy	is a work of literature, especially a play, that results in a catastrophe for the main character(s)	2
6303857528	Stage directions	Notes included in a drama to describe how the work is to be performed or staged	3
6303857529	Monologue	a lengthy speech by one character in a play, with other characters listening	4
6303857530	Soliloquy	a lengthy speech expressing the thoughts of a character, spoken alone on stage	5
6303857531	Aside	a short line delivered by an actor in a play, intended to be heard by only the audience	6
6303857532	Foil	a character who provides a contrast to another character; each character's traits stand out more because they are opposites	7
6303857533	Motivation	A reason that explains or partially explains why a character thinks, feels, acts, or behaves a certain way	8
6303857534	Free verse	Poetry not written in a regular rythmical pattern, or meter	9
6303857535	Blank verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines	10
6303857536	Rhyme scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	11
6303857537	Sonnet	A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter	12
6303857538	Couplet	A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter	13
6303857539	Meter	A poem's rhythmical pattern	14
6303857540	Allegory	A story or tale with two or more levels of meaning -- a literal level and one or more symbolic level(s)	15
6303857541	Extended metaphor	A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem	16
6303857542	Foreshadow	The use in a literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur	17
6303857543	Suspense	A feeling of uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work	18
6303857544	Universal theme	A message about life that can be understood by most cultures	19