2. Drama Elements

3. ALLUSION:  a reference in a text to something in history or literature

4. ASIDE:  A short speech heard by the audience but not other characters

5. BLANK VERSE:  A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

6. CHARACTERIZATION:  The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character  Methods may include (1) by what the character says about himself or herself; (2) by what others reveal about the character; and (3) by the character's own actions

7. CONFLICT:  Protagonist vs. another force  EXTERNAL TYPES: INTERNAL TYPES: MAN VS. MAN MAN VS. HIMSELF MAN VS. NATURE MAN VS. MACHINE MAN VS. SOCIETY

8. COUPLET:  A stanza of two rhyming lines

9. DRAMATIC STRUCTURE: CATASTROPHE Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Act 4 Act 5

10. EPITHET  word before or after a name that describes the character  EXAMPLE: “fleet-footed Achilles”

11. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE  saying one thing and meaning something else

12. FOIL  a character whose personality is the opposite of the personality of another character.

13. FORESHADOWING:  providing hints of what is to come

14. HYPERBOLE  An exaggeration

15. IAMBIC PENTAMETER:  Meter in poetry with five iambic feet per line.

16.  DRAMATIC IRONY -when the audience knows something that one or more characters don’t  SITUATIONAL IRONY -when there is a difference between what is expected to happen and what happens  VERBAL IRONY -occurs when the speaker means something totally different (often the opposite) than what he or she is saying (sarcasm)

17. MONOLOGUE  Long uninterrupted speeches where a character reveals his or her personality

18. OXYMORON  combines contradictory words or ideas

19. PERSONIFICATION  Giving something not human, human qualities

20. PUN:  play on words where a word has two meanings at the same time  Eminem raps, “ Now you get to watch her leave /out the window/Guess that's why they call it window pane”  He means a window glass pane in the window.  But he also means its called a window pane because it sounds like pain and he’s in pain.

21. SIMILE:  Comparing using “like” or “as”

22. SOLILOQUY  a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage.

23. TRAGIC HERO  A protagonist that is otherwise perfect except for a tragic flaw. (also known as a fatal flaw). This flaw eventually causes the character’s destruction.