1. Dramatic Terms These are general dramatic terms you will have to know
Examples given pertain to “Julius Caesar”

2. Act

3. Set

4. Prop

5. Backdrop

6. Script

7. Convention

8. Dialogue

9. Dramatic Irony

10. Aside
Words spoken in an undertone not meant to be heard by everyone on stage

11. Monologue Long, uninterrupted speech made by one character
example: Mark Antony’s funeral oration

12. Soliloquy
Long speech made by one character alone on stage> The audience may learn the thoughts of character (thinking out loud)
example> Mark Antony alone with Caesar’s body

13. Personification
Giving human qualities to something not human - figurative language
example> “The heart is thirsty for that noble pledge.”

14. Simile Comparison of two unlike things using “as, like, or than”
example> “I am as constant as the Northern Star.”

15. Metaphor
Direct comparison
example> “I am the Northern Star.”

16. Hyperbole Over exaggeration
example>” I’m so hungry I could eat a cow!!”

17. Dramatic Structure Introduction Characters Setting Conflict
Julius Caesar> Act I

18. Rising Action Complications
Julius Caesar> Brutus joins the conspiracy
planning of the assassination

19. Climax
Highest point of interest>everything begins to unravel from here
Assassination of Caesar
Mark Antony’s funeral speech

20. Falling Action
Events continue to unravel and begin to move towards a resolution
Mark Antony, Octavius, Brutus and Cassius
Armies established

21. Resolution
Things are “tied together”. All pieces of the puzzle are put together. May NOT be a happy ending.
Mark Antony avenges Caesar
Brutus dies
Cassius dies
Brutus honored