1. MSND Terms to
Know and Love

2. DRAMA
story with conflict, action, crisis, and atmosphere
designed to be acted before an audience

3. TRAGEDY
a drama that contains the ruin of the leading characters

4. COMEDY
a drama with a happy ending
characters overcome their trials

5. ALLUSION
the reference to something outside of the work
FOR EXAMPLE: “Your nose is as red as Rudolph’s”

6. ASIDE
remark made to audience or another character that others on stage are not supposed to hear

7. A play on words, using spelling or sound
PUN
A play on words, using spelling or sound
Sea captains don't like crew cuts
When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination

8. COMIC RELIEF
humor to relieve an intense moment in the drama
(like cracking a joke at a funeral)

9. SOLILOQUY
speech given when character is alone on stage
(hear someone’s thoughts)

10. CHARACTER FOILS
Direct opposite characters

11. CHARACTER DOUBLE
Directly mirrored characters

12. THE GLOBE
theater in London where Shakespeare’s plays were performed

15. IAMB
the two syllables put together
one gets “beat” – one does not
“HEL-LO”

16. IAMBIC PENTAMETER
a grouping of five iambs
(ten syllables total)
“Hello hello hello hello hello”

17. A horse! A horse!
My kingdom for a horse!

18. Hip Hop as
Iambic Pentameter

19. “Lollipop”
Lil Wayne

20. O k lil ma ma had a swagga like mine …..U / U / U / U / U /
O k lil ma ma had a swagga like mine
…..
I make her feel right when its wrong like lyin U / U / U / U / U /

21. O k lil ma ma had a swagga like mine …..U / U / U / U / U /
O k lil ma ma had a swagga like mine
…..
I make her feel right when its wrong like lyin U / U / U / U / U /

22. A Midsummer Night’s Dreamas
Hip Hop

23. “Lullaby”
(Oberon’s spell)
Performed by:
9th Wonder