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2015-01-28, 13:21
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Today,I wanted to share with you this glossary of literary terms related to drama
Chorus:in Greek drama the chorus watched the action of the play and told the story.The modern meaning can be simply a group of people other than the hero or heroine.
Or a part of a song that is sung after each verse.
Masque:d r a m a t i c entertainment with dancing and music,performed at court and in rich people's houses in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Monologue:A speech by one person,with the basic meaning of a single person speaking alone-with or without an audience.Among its four main kinds,we can distinguish the following:
a-Soliloquy:In drama,an extended speech made by a solitary character expressing his thoughts aloud to himself and the audience.Hamlet's famous speech beginning "To be or not to be" is a soliloquy;see Macbeth's soliloquy in Murder Plot.
b-Dramatic Monologue:a poem in which there is no imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience.It usually occurs at a moment of great significance for the speaker-or recalls such a moment;and the main effect is usually to illustrate something unusual,or especially interesting,in the speaker's frame of mind,as in Browning's My Last Duchess.
Aside:words spoken by a character in a play,usually in an undertone,not intended to be heard by other characters on stage.Usually,aside is used to let the audience know what a character is actually thinking or feeling as opposed to what he/she pretends to be thinking or feeling.
Act:A main division in a play,itself divided into scenes.Traditionally,there are five acts in a play.
Scene:Edmund Chambers defines it as "a continuous section of action in an unchanged locality."
Stage Directions:notes incorporated in or added to the script of a play to indicate the moment of a character's appearance,character and manner;the style of delivery;the actor's movement;details of l o c a t i o n,scenery and effects.
Prologue:a speech at the beginning of a play or a book that introduces it.
Epilogue:an ending,or an extra part after the end of a book or play.Some of Shakespeare's plays have an epilogue addressed to the audience.
Crisis:the most important part of a play,when the action takes an important turn and the feelings of the audience are strongest.
Climax:the highest point in ascending series of crises;in fiction or drama,the point where tension is at its highest.
Anticlimax:a release in dramatic tension that follows the climax and annouces the denouement.
Denouement:the untying of the plot;the final resolution of the complications of the plot.
Today,I wanted to share with you this glossary of literary terms related to drama
Chorus:in Greek drama the chorus watched the action of the play and told the story.The modern meaning can be simply a group of people other than the hero or heroine.
Or a part of a song that is sung after each verse.
Masque:d r a m a t i c entertainment with dancing and music,performed at court and in rich people's houses in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Monologue:A speech by one person,with the basic meaning of a single person speaking alone-with or without an audience.Among its four main kinds,we can distinguish the following:
a-Soliloquy:In drama,an extended speech made by a solitary character expressing his thoughts aloud to himself and the audience.Hamlet's famous speech beginning "To be or not to be" is a soliloquy;see Macbeth's soliloquy in Murder Plot.
b-Dramatic Monologue:a poem in which there is no imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience.It usually occurs at a moment of great significance for the speaker-or recalls such a moment;and the main effect is usually to illustrate something unusual,or especially interesting,in the speaker's frame of mind,as in Browning's My Last Duchess.
Aside:words spoken by a character in a play,usually in an undertone,not intended to be heard by other characters on stage.Usually,aside is used to let the audience know what a character is actually thinking or feeling as opposed to what he/she pretends to be thinking or feeling.
Act:A main division in a play,itself divided into scenes.Traditionally,there are five acts in a play.
Scene:Edmund Chambers defines it as "a continuous section of action in an unchanged locality."
Stage Directions:notes incorporated in or added to the script of a play to indicate the moment of a character's appearance,character and manner;the style of delivery;the actor's movement;details of l o c a t i o n,scenery and effects.
Prologue:a speech at the beginning of a play or a book that introduces it.
Epilogue:an ending,or an extra part after the end of a book or play.Some of Shakespeare's plays have an epilogue addressed to the audience.
Crisis:the most important part of a play,when the action takes an important turn and the feelings of the audience are strongest.
Climax:the highest point in ascending series of crises;in fiction or drama,the point where tension is at its highest.
Anticlimax:a release in dramatic tension that follows the climax and annouces the denouement.
Denouement:the untying of the plot;the final resolution of the complications of the plot.