Unit 2: Lesson 1

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  1. drama
    a work intended for performance by actors on a stage
  2. comedy
    light and humorous drama with a happy ending
  3. tragedy
    drama exciting terror or pity
  4. hero
    the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem
  5. history
    a record or narrative description of past events
  6. act
    a theatrical performance that is part of a longer program
  7. scene
    a subdivision of an act of a play
  8. dialogue
    the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
  9. stage direction
    instruction or description written in the script of a play
  10. meter
    a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse
  11. blank verse
    unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter
  12. iambic
    of metrical units having an unstressed/stressed pattern
  13. pentameter
    a verse line having five metrical feet
  14. soliloquy
    a dramatic speech giving the illusion of unspoken reflection
  15. aside
    a line spoken by an actor not intended for others on stage
  16. dramatic irony
    when the audience understands something the characters don't
  17. exposition
    an account that sets forth the intent of a story
  18. rising action
    a series of plot events that build up toward the climax
  19. climax
    the decisive moment in a novel or play
  20. falling action
    series of plot events following the climax of a narrative
  21. resolution
    something settled
  22. subplot
    a subordinate or secondary story in a work of fiction
  23. foil
    a person or thing that serves to contrast with another
  24. conflict
    opposition in a work of fiction between characters or forces
  25. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  26. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  27. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  28. ambiguous
    having more than one possible meaning
  29. anticipate
    regard something as probable or likely
  30. conceive
    have the idea for
  31. integrity
    moral soundness
Created on Wed Sep 02 09:19:49 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Apr 05 16:17:54 EDT 2021)

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