Drama terms
- 1. SHAKESPEARE’S LANGUAGE
- 2. METER The basic rhythmicstructure of a poetic line, containing a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. / = stressed ˘ = unstressed
- 4. METER = Type of Foot + # of Feet in a Line
- 5. FEET A group ofsyllables in poetry comprised of two or more stressed or unstressed syllables.
- 6. 6 TYPES OFFEET The primary feet are referred to using these: •Iambic: destroy (unstressed/stressed) •Anapestic: intervene (unstressed/unstressed/stressed) •Trochaic: topsy (stressed/unstressed) •Dactylic: merrily (stressed/unstressed/unstressed) The substitutive feet are referred to using these terms: •Spondaic: hum drum (stressed/stressed) •Pyrrhic: the sea/ son of/ mists (the "son of" in the middle being unstressed/unstressed)
- 7. IAMBIC METER A patternconsisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (da-DUM) Example: attempt
- 8. LINE LENGTH The typesof line lengths are as follows: One foot: Monometer Two feet: Dimeter Three feet: Trimeter Four feet: Tetrameter Five feet: Pentameter Six feet: Hexameter Seven feet: Heptameter
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- 10. METER = Type of Foot + # of Feet in a Line
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- 12. EXAMPLE FROM THE TEMPEST(SHAKESPEARE)
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- 20. DRAMATIC IRONY
- 21. FOIL Example: Katniss Everdeen& Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games
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- 24. PUN EXAMPLE:I wondered whythe baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.
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