What is an aside?
Where a character makes a remark that the audience can hear but no other characters can.
Where a character speaks their thoughts or emotions aloud alone onstage.
The opening lines of a scene.
What is blank verse?
Lines with no metre or rhythmical pattern.
Lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Another name for prose.
What is denouement?
The opposing force to a narrative's protagonist.
The final resolution of a play, novel or other narrative.
The beginning of a play where characters or information is introduced.
What is dramatic irony?
Where an audience or reader has information that a character is ignorant of.
When a character very obviously means the exact opposite to what they say.
When a play makes a reference to the real world outside the story.
What is exposition?
The opening section of a play where characters are introduced and essential information is imparted to the audience.
The event or character that the whole of the plot depends upon.
The final section of a play or other narrative where all the plot points are resolved.
What is hyperbole?
When a text foreshadows a future event.
Extravagant overstatement.
The last speech of a dying character in a drama.
What is proleptic irony?
When the audience has information that characters are ignorant of.
The foreshadowing of an event that will occur later in a play or other text.
When characters misunderstand each other and cause negative consequences.
What is a register?
The list of characters at the start of a published play text.
The type or style of language/vocabulary associated with a specific context.
The overall metrical pattern of a poem.
What is a soliloquy?
The two rhyming lines at the end of a scene in a play text.
A scene in a play where two characters converse in a back and forth dialogue.
A speech by a character alone onstage where he/she gives voice to emotions or thoughts.
What is verbal irony?
The sarcastic tone of voice used by an actor in a play or film.
Where the actual meaning of a text is different to the apparent meaning.
When a text foreshadows future events.
What is a focaliser?
The character through whose perspective or perceptions the narrative is described.
Phrases such as 'he said' or 'Daniel whispered' that signal who has spoken in a prose text.
The audience or reader of a literary text.
What is non-diegetic sound?
Repeated vowel sounds across a section of literary text.
The sound effects of a film. For example: doors shutting, background people talking etc.
Sound that is external to the story world of a film.
What is mise-en-scène?
The filmed events of a film such as costume, set design or character movement.
A genre of French poetry.
When the weather/climate of a literary text reflects the mood of a character.
What is diegetic sound?
Sound that is inside the story world of a film.
The way iambic pentameter sounds when spoken out loud.