A situation in a play where the audience (and possibly some of the characters) know something that one or more of the characters don’t.
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Monologue
An extended speech by one person only; addressed by a character either to themselves or to the audience and divorced from the dialogue of the other characters.
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Soliloquy
An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to themselves or is oblivious to – or disregards - any listeners present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts).
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Symbol
Something that represents an idea, process or a physical entity. Its purpose is to communicate meaning beyond its literal use/definition.
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Metaphor
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to a person, idea or object to which it is not literally applicable. It is an implied analogy or unstated comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another.
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Mise en Scene
French term meaning “place on stage”: refers to all the visual elements of a theatrical production within the space provided by the stage itself.
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Theme
The central and dominating idea in a literary work. In addition, the term means a message or moral implicit in any work of art.
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Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined to produce a rhetorical effect by means of a concise paradox.
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Irony
A dryly humorous or lightly sarcastic figure of speech in which the literal meaning of a word or statement is the opposite of that intended. Can also be a situation in which there is incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and t
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Hyperbole
Obvious and deliberate exaggeration or an extravagant statement. It is a figure of speech not intended to be taken literally since it is exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.
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Colloquialism
A word or phrase used in an easy, informal style of writing or speaking. They provide a sense of actual conversation and use the pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary of everyday speech.
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Allusion
A reference - usually brief, often casual, occasionally indirect - to a person, event, or condition thought to be familiar (but sometimes actually obscure or unknown) to the reader.
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Ambiguity
A doubtfulness or uncertainty about the intention or meaning of something. It usually refers to a statement that is subject to more than one interpretation.
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An extended speech by one person only; addressed by a character either to themselves or to the audience and divorced from the dialogue of the other characters.
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Monologue
Card 3
Front
An utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to themselves or is oblivious to – or disregards - any listeners present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thoughts).
Back
Card 4
Front
Something that represents an idea, process or a physical entity. Its purpose is to communicate meaning beyond its literal use/definition.
Back
Card 5
Front
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to a person, idea or object to which it is not literally applicable. It is an implied analogy or unstated comparison which imaginatively identifies one thing with another.
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