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TKM, Drama, Media
all of To Kill a Mockingbird deffinitions, drama vocab., and media vocab.
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English
10th Grade
06/08/2009

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Term

 

 

Allusion

Definition

 

 

A casual reference to

 another work or art.

Term

 

 

Explicit theme

Definition

 

 

Moral to the story

Term

 

 

Implicit Theme

Definition

 

A way to help the reader

visualize the sotry from

their own exxperiences

Term

 

 

Metaphor

Definition

 

 

A figure of speach connecting

two or more ideas.

Term

 

 

Simile

Definition

 

 

Using "like" or "as"

to compare references

Term

 

 

Idiom

 

Definition

 

 

A figureative language that

can only be found out through

common sence

Term

 

 

Antagonist

Definition

A person or group of

people who are opposed to

the main character

Term

 

 

Aside

Definition

 

 

An almost inside joke

between the audience and character

that the other characters don't know

about.

Term

 

 

Characterization

Definition

 

 

The way a character is portrayed

by actions, speach, and thoughts.

Term

 

 

Climax

Definition

 

 

The most dramatic event in

either a book or play.

Term

 

 

Comic Relief

Definition

 

 

An unexpected break from a

more serious event. often breaks

the mood of tention.

Term

 

 

conflict

Definition

 

 

an internal or external

argument between two or more

characters.

Term

 

 

Dialogue

Definition

 

 

conversation between two or more

people, or were two or more parties

engage in conversatioion.

Term

 

 

Farce

Definition

 

 

A comedy written to entertain an

audience by unlikely situations, or

impossible outcomes, ect.

Term

 

 

Protagonist

Definition

 

 

central or main figure

in the story line.

Term

 

 

Setting

Definition

 

 

Time,place,location, in which

the whole story line takes place.

Term

 

 

Soliloquy

Definition

 

 

a characters thoughts or

emotions felt by the reader and

or audience.

Term

 

 

Stage direction

Definition

 

 

[image]

Term

 

 

Theme

Definition

 

 

A broad idea or message

conveyed in works.

Term

 

 

Tragic Hero

Definition

 

 

A character whos events

dramticly lead to His/Her

downfall.

Term

 

 

Propaganda

Definition

 

 

Ways to target people

into positive reactioins

(advertizing)

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