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Frage | Antworten |
Catharsis | A theraputic calmness following a moment of heightened emotional intensity. |
Characterisation | The development of a particular traits and qualities within a particular character. |
'Corruptio optimi pessima est' | 'The corruption of the best becomes the worst.' |
Courtly Love | A formal system of love and courtship, governed by gender stereotypes. |
Decorum | The tradition of using a particular, appropriate verse form. |
Denouement | The conclusion of a play. |
Dramatic irony | Where an audience is painfully aware of information unavailable to a character. |
Elision | Omission of syllables for the purposes of metrical regularity. |
Episodic | A play that is made up of many short events, rather than one developing plot. |
Eponymous | A play that is named after a character. |
Genre | The accordance of a play to a particular, expected set of artistic stylings. |
Hamartia | The tragic hero's tragic flaw. |
Heroic couplet | A rhyming couplet within iambic pentameter. |
Malapropism | A misuse of a word, mistaking it for a similarly sounding word. |
Mankind figure | A character that encompasses the flaws of man |
Meta theatre | Where the playwright draws attention to the artificial nature of the theatre. |
Miracle play | A dramatic representation of biblical stories |
Morality plays | A play with a didactic purpose. |
Parody | A play that reflects aspects of another, often in a mocking manner. |
Pathos | A heightening of emotional intensity that intends to evoke pity from the audience, for a particular character. |
Pertipeteia | A sudden change of fortune. |
Psychomachia | The conflict of virtue and vice in a battle for the soul. |
Repartee | A playful and witty retort. |
Rhetoric | A character's manner of emphasis within their dialogue. |
Soliloquy | Where a character speaks alone, to no other characters. |
Solipsism | The philosophical belief that only the individual exists. |
Suspension of disbelief | Where an audience willingly departs from reality in embracing the rules of the dramatic universe before them. |
Tragedy | See Aristotle. |
Unities | The play must: occur within the same place, the same 24 hours, follow one single plot. |
Allegory | A plot line that parallels another in themes. |
Ambiguity | An unresolvable aspect of a work. |
Ambivilance | The coexistence of two opposing thoughts within one's mind. |
Aphorism | Brief statement of wisdom, often seemingly simplistic. |
Connotation | An allusion to a concept through employment of representative objects. |
Contextuality | Where the goings on during a particular era add to one's interpretation. |
Diction | The choice of vocabulary from a particular semantic field. |
Didactic | An intention to impart a moral. |
Foreshadowing | A reference to a later event that is unobvious when first seen. |
Hyperbole | An exaggeration. |
Intertextuality | The existence of content from one particular work within another. |
Irony | The expression of one's meaning by expressing what appears the exact opposite. |
Metaphor | Where one object is said to be another. |
Pathetic fallacy | The attribution of human feelings to other objects and animals - like a reversed personification. |
Personification | The attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects or animals. |
Postmodernism | Words have no innate meaning, their connotations are developed through contextual association. |
Plurality | Where a range of interpretations for an aspect of a text exist. |
Similie | Where an object or person is said to have qualities "like" another. |
Stoicism | Happiness can only be achieved by accepting one's ultimate lack of power over their fate. |
Verisimilitude | Where objects or individuals are made to appear as they would in the real world. |
Alliteration | The repeated utterance of consonant sounds. |
Archaic language | Aged vocabulary |
Caesura | A pause within a line of speech. |
End-stopping | A pause at the end of a line. |
Epistrophe | Where the same phrase is repeated at the end of successive lines. |
Juxtaposition | Where to concepts or images are placed beside each other to enhance their contrasts. |
Polysyllabic | Words that consist of three or more syllables. |
Rhythm | Syllabic construction. |
Rhyme | Correspondence of sounds between different words. |
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