LIT Terms Flashcards
A play.the specific mode of fiction represented in performance
Drama
A conversation between two or more people
Dialogue
The time and place of the action in a story poem, or play
Setting
A trauma in which a character, usually a noble or high rank, is brought to a disastrous in his or her confrontation with a superior force Protagonist downfall = fatal flaw
Tragedy
A privileged exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw, and fate suffers from a fall from glory into suffering
Tragic hero
A weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero
Tragic flaw
In drama, where a single actor speaks alone, but other characters can be present on stage
Monologue
A monologue set and a specific situation, and spoken to an imaginary audience
Soliloquy and dramatic monologue
In drama, I need that occurs when the meeting of a situation is understood by the audience, but not by the characters of the play
Dramatic, irony
A character who contrast and parallels the main character in a play or story
Foils
An amazing scene, incident or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements as in plate in order to provide temporary relief from tension or intensify dramatic action starts to heighten the seriousness of the main action by contrast
Comic relief
A generalized abstract paraphrase of the inferred, central, or dominant idea, or concern of a work, the statement, a poem makes about its subject
Theme
