English I AAC Dramatic Terms

repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a word (big black bear)

• alliteration

• set

• epilogue

• cast

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

dramatic device in which a character speaks his/her mind aloud

• iambic pentameter

• props

• aside

• chorus

unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter

• lines

• word play

• curtain call

• blank verse

A major unit of action in a play; similar to a chapter in a book

• onomatopoeia

• act

• monologue

• comic relief

in poetry, arrangement of words are references as lines, not sentences

• soliloquy

• lines

• props

• set

one actor who serves as a narrator

• dramatic irony

• pun

• chorus

• offstage

conversation between two or more people

• dialogue

• script

• rhythym

• word play

Tags

CCSS.SL.9-10.1

CCSS.W.9-10.3

CCSS.W.9-10.3B

a humorous scene, incident, or speech that is included in a serious drama to provide a change from emotional intensity

• comic relief

• hyperbole

• internal rhyme

• word play

two consecutive, rhymed lines of poetry; rhyme pattern

• comic relief

• end rhyme

• aside

• couplet

when the audience knows more than the actors do

• stanza

• offstage

• pun

• dramatic irony