English Dramatic Terms

Question 1

Aliteration

Answer 1

Repetition of constant sounds

Question 2

Pun

Answer 2

A joke that comes from a play on words

Question 3

Soliloquy

Answer 3

A speech in which the character speaks their thoughts outloud

Question 4

Monologue

Answer 4

A long, uninterrupted speech by one character

Question 5

Aside

Answer 5

Dramatic device in which the character says their thoughts out loud, in words meant for the audience. An aside is brief

Question 6

Stage Directions

Answer 6

Set of instructions for actors

Question 7

Foil

Answer 7

A character who provides a striking contrast to another character

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

A figure of speech in which human qualities are given to a non-human thing

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

A figure of speech in which the truth is exagerated

Question 10

Dramatic Irony

Answer 10

Special kind of contrast between appearance and reality, the viewer knows something the character does not

Question 11

Foreshadowing

Answer 11

The writers use hints to indicate events that will happen later in the plot

Question 12

Extended Metaphor

Answer 12

Figure of speech the compares two unlike things at some length and in several ways

Question 13

Allusion

Answer 13

Indirect reference to another literary work

Question 14

Blank verse

Answer 14

Unrhymed poetry written in aimbic pentameter

Question 15

Paradox

Answer 15

Statement that seems to contradict itself