Poetry and Drama

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Poetry:

poem = a piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their beauty, sound or imagery.
Rhyme = the use of words with the same sound at the ends of the lines of a poem
Stanza = a group of line forming a division of a poem
Layout = the way in wich words are arranged on paper
Line = a row of word in a printed page
Rhythm = a strong pattem of sound used in music or poetry
Poetry = the art of writing poems
Run-on-line = the phrase is written in 2 lines
Assonance = the repetition of the same vowel sound
Alliteration = the repetition of the same initial consonant sound
Repetition = phrases or lines may be repated
Onomatopoeia = the use of word whose sound illustrates their meaning
Simile = a comparison between 2 things with a comparison word such as like
Metaphor = comparison between 2 dissimilar things without a comparison word
Oximor = 2words with completely different meaning
Personification = a type of methaphor wich attributes to things human characteristics
Symbol = is any thing, person or action that has a literal meaning and also stands for something else (rose is the symbol of love)

Drama:

Scene = a part of a play in wich the action remains in one place for a continuous period of time
Tragedy = a play that ends sadly
Performance = the action of entertaining other people by dancing singing acting or playing music
Play = a piece of writing that is intended to be acted in a thater
Comedy = a play which is amusing
Stage = the area in a thaetre where actors perform
Audience = the public at a theatre
Playwright = a person who writes a play
Act = a part of play
Stage direction = description or instruction in the text of a play explaing how it sholud be performed
The structure = (shakespearian plays) act 1: introduction, act 2: development, act3: crisis. Act4: complication, act 5: resolving of all difficulties

Dramatic techniques
Dialogue: it creates the action
It provides details about the characters it shows what a character thinks about another
It gives informations about the past and can foreshadow subsequent events

Soliloquy and monologue:
They thoughts about a specific problem
Plans for the future
Feelings and reactions
Explanation of what happens between scenes

Asides:
To reveal the nature of the speaker
To draw the attention of the audience to the importance of what has been said or to explain developments
To create humor

Characters
A hero
A heroine (quite often)

Language: particulary intense and variegated

Tragedy: some of the main features of classical tragedies are: the prologue, the chorus, the concept of catharsis
The solemn style, the rappresantion of the struggle between good and evil
The hero is alwas a king,a princes and it dominetes by the fate and he has sometimes a flow
There is generally a villain

Comedy: the comedy has maintained some fixed features:
Ordiary characters
There’s often misfortune
The writer mocks generally the vice and follies of the society
The plots are based on love