Dramatic Terms: Definitions and Literary Devices, Study notes of Poetry

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DRAMATIC TERMS

Dramatic Terms Pre-Assessment

◦ Define the following terms to the best of your ability. This is a "show what you know" activity. It will not count as a formal grade. ◦ Caesura Monologue Plot Structure ◦ Meter Dramatic Irony Blank Verse ◦ Foot Metaphor Prose ◦ Iamb Alliteration Oxymoron ◦ Iambic pentameter Personification ◦ Tragedy Pun ◦ Soliloquy Malapropism ◦ Aside Comic relief

• Pun : humorous play on words to show more than one meaning of that word.
• Oxymoron : a combination of contradictory words.
• Monologue : long, uninterrupted speech given by one character to other characters on stage.
• Blank Verse : unrhymed iambic pentameter.
• Prose : the ordinary form of spoken or written language without metrical structure as distinguished from poetry or verse.
• Aside : a remark made to the audience and unheard by other characters on stage.

• Soliloquy : long speech given by one character who is alone on stage. It expresses thoughts and feelings of that character.
• Metaphor : one thing is spoken of as though it were something else.
• Personification : non-human object given human characteristics.
• Alliteration : repetition of initial consonant sound.
• Malapropism : unintentionally humorous misuse of words--one that sounds right but doesn’t fit the context.
• Dramatic Irony : A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience knows to be true.
• Comic Relief : Comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections and/or a character or characters providing this