Drama Terms for A Dolls House Act Act
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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
Example MARCIA’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. . . ’ 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 Irony Words have more than one meaning; or words spoken contradict a 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
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