Drama Terms/Tragedy Review

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What are couplets?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

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Define 'tragic hero'.

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A literary character who makes a judgment error that leads to their own destruction.

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True or False: Tragic heroes must always be rich and noble.

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False.

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What is a metaphor?

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A comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a dramatic foil?

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A pair of characters who are opposite in many ways and highlight or exaggerate each other’s differences.

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What is a simile?

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A comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is iambic pentameter?

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A type of poetic meter consisting of five iambs per line, where an iamb is a metrical foot with an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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What is a tragedy in drama?

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A serious play that typically ends in disaster for the main character.

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What is dramatic irony?

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A situation in a play where the audience knows more about the events than the characters.

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What is catharsis?

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The emotional release experienced by the audience at the end of a tragedy.