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| drama is a kind of literature that is written to be performed by actors of an audience. |
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| are a play rights written instructions about how actors should move and behave. |
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| a section in a play in which all of the events occur in one place at one time. |
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a speech in which a character speaks to a silent or absent listener in a moment of deep emotion.
*A special kind of monologue is a soliloquy. |
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| a character make a brief remarks, either to the audience or to another character, that other on state do not hear. |
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| one way is through dialogue, or conversation between two or more character. |
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| during a monologue, a characters in a drama speaks without interruption. |
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| drama that recounts the downfall of a dignified. superior character who is involved in historically or socially significant events. |
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| tragedy shows what happens when people disobeyed the laws of the gods. |
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| the tragic hero is a noble, superior character that has a tragic flaw that leads to his/her downfall. Twists of fate play a hand in character's destruction. |
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| solve conflict, demonstrates tragic failure and involves death of hero. |
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| the fall is caused in part by some error of the protagonist. |
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| chorus is a group of 15 that commented on the actions of the play. |
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| choragus was the leader of the chorus that participated in the dialogue. |
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