Twelfth Night Drama Vocabulary

This set of flash cards cover the drama terms necessary for one of Shakespeare's play, Twelfth Night. These are strictly literary terms, not vocabulary from the actual play.

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Flat character
A character you know very little about but who plays a key role
Static character
A character who either does not change or is incapable of change
Round character
A character who is well-developed; you know a lot about him or her
Antagonist
Person or thing preventing the main character from doing what he/she wants to do
Drama
Prose or verse intended to be acted out
Dramatis personae
The characters or persons in a play
Comedy
A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better, and end happily ever after
Protagonist
The main character of a literary work
Soliloquy
A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage
Aside
Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play
Stage directions
A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play, for example gestures or sound effects
Narrator
The voice and implied speaker of a fictional work, to be distinguished from the actual living author
Props
Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play
Dynamic character
A character who is capable of change
Monologue
A long speech by a single character without another character's response