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Drama Vocabulary
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Foil
• Two contrasting characters placed in the same play
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Monologue
• Long speech by one character to another character on stage
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Soliloquy
• A speech by a character alone on stage
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Dramatic Irony
• Audience knows something the characters don’t
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Aside
• One or two lines spoken to the audience
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• Blank Verse: Unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote all of his plays in blank verse.– Typically the presence of a character speaking in
iambic pentameter indicates that the character is an aristocrat (upper class). Lower class characters speak in prose.
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Example of Blank Verse ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ / ~ /But soft.|What light| through yon|der win|dow
breaks?~ / ~ / ~ / ~~ / ~ /It is| the east|, and Jul|iet is |the sun!
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Elements of Shakespearean Comedy
• Love – Comedies typically end in a marriage, often multiple
• Mistaken identity – Many characters disguise themselves, crossdress, or misidentify other characters
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Pun
• Play on words
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Allusion
• Reference to something outside of the play; usually another work of literature
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Oxymoron
• Two opposite words placed next to each other
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Foreshadowing
• Hint of things to come
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Malapropism
• Ludicrous misuse of words, especially when those words sound similar