drama terms for a doll’s house. act act act- one of the main divisions of a play or opera
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Drama Terms for
A Doll’s House
Act
• Act- One of the main divisions of a play or opera
Character
• Characters- a person, or anything presented as a person in a literary work
Drama
• Drama- a story acted out, usually on a stage, by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters
Dialogue
• Dialogue- a conversation between characters
Stage Directions
• Stage Directions- a playwright’s descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting and action of a play
ExampleMARCIA’s room, evening. MARCIA is wearing a cool, sparkly jacket and practicing a dance routine to ‘Umbrella’ by Rihanna, in front of her mirror.
MARCIA (sings): ‘Underneath my um-be-rella, Ella, ella, ella...’
BEN enters, carrying a magic wand.
BEN: What’s that noise, it sounds like cats screeching?
MARCIA: Out! No annoying brothers allowed.
Foil• Foil- a character in a play who
sets off the main character or other characters by comparison
Genre
• Genre- a category of artistic pieces that share a similar theme
(examples include “horror,” “romance,” etc.)
Situational Irony
• Irony of Situation- result of an action is the reverse of what the actor and audience expected
Verbal IronyWords have more than
one meaning;or
words spoken contradicta character
Dramatic Irony
• Dramatic Irony- the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not know
Example
Scene
• Scene- divisions of action within acts
Set
• Set- the scenery and staging of a dramatic production
Example: The Set From A Doll’s House
Tragedy
• Tragedy- in general , a literary work in which the central character meets a disastrous downfall as a result of his/her own tragic flaw
Tragic Flaw
• Tragic Flaw- a character weakness that brings about the downfall of a tragic hero