Drama Flashcards

(22 cards)

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Drama

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Performed by actors for an audience, told through characters,words,actions

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Cast

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Performers

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Act

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Main divisions

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Scene

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Smaller division

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Setting

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Place and time

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Dialogue

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Lines spoken

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Stage directions

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Directions telling characters how to speak or act;sound,actions,props,lights

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Plot

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Series of events where the characters try to solve a problem or attain a goal;acts and scenes,show a change in the setting,characters,plot

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9
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exposition

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Introduces the characters,setting, and conflict

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Rising action

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Events,lead to the climax

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Climax

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Turning point, conflict at its highest

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Falling action

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Leads to the resolution

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13
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Resolution

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How the conflict is or isn’t resolved

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Dialogue

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Lines spoken between two or more people; what they say,how they say it, how other characters respond

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15
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Figures of speech

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Idiom, a common phrase that has a different meaning of its individual words

Adage ,old saying that expresses an accepted truth about life

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16
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Point of view

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Character’s perspective, explore the characters’ thoughts and feelings

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Monologue - mon=one

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speech by one actor

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Soliloquy

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Characters reveal there thoughts and feelings

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Aside

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Comment made to the audience, Not Heard by the other characters

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Dramatic irony

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Audience knows one or more of the characters

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Verbal irony

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Characters says the opposite of what he or she really means; sarcasm or humor

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Theme

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Central message,alluded to in the title and at the beginning of f play