Drama Terms

when the audience knows something and the characters dont

struggle between opposing forces

• 5 meter/ 10 syllables
• unstressed-stressed

ordinary form of language

unrhymed poem

pair of rhyming lines

• 14 lines
• iambic
• first 12 problem last 2 solution

when a character highlights another character

things given human abilities

solo speech alone

is a speech and tells one or more people

reference to something famous

an actor’s speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage