Shakespearean genres DRAMATIC METHODS

• English Lit
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

What is an Antagonist?

1. The principal character in a novel or drama
2. A main idea or concern explored in a work of art
3. The main character who opposes the protagonist or hero in a narrative or drama (the villain)
4. The clothes or outfit worn by a character.

What is a motif?

1. Sounds on the stage used to create the setting or atmosphere of the play, or for other dramatic effect.
2. A dominant or recurring idea or figure of speech within a work of art or within the work of an artist, musician or writer
3. Items used on stage by the actors
4. A quality of a play’s action or dialogue that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character.

What is a soliloquy?

Why are stage directions useful?

What is Pathos?

1. A brief remark made by a character during dialogue which is understood not to be addressed to or heard by other characters.
2. Placing two contrasting characters, things, ideas close together to illuminate meaning or create tension
3. The plot resolution of a narrative
4. A play’s action or dialogue that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character.

Pathos is present in tragedy, and may be present in comedy as well.

Always

Sometimes

occasionally

Rarely

Never

What is Dramatic Convention?

The plot resolution of a narrative is called the ...........

1. Denouement
2. Climax
3. Dialogue
4. Synecdoche

A form of figurative speech where the whole concept of something is referred to by one of its parts.
(calling a car “wheels” or asking if someone can “lend a hand”)

Synecdoche

Soliloquy

Metonymy

Aside

Denouement

what is the FOURTH WALL?

which is not a stage in the journey of the tragic hero?

1. catharsis
2. anagnorisis
3. peripeteia
4. hyperbole

what is a denouement?