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1.
act |
one of
the main parts into which a stage play, opera etc is divided. |
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2.
action |
the
things that happen in a play or book. |
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3.
actor |
someone who
performs in a play, film, or television programme. |
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4.
antagonist |
character
in a fictional text or drama who is opposed to, or in conflict with, the
protagonist. |
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5.
atmosphere |
the tone or
mood of a novel, short story or play created by setting, description and
characters. |
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6.
audience |
a group
of people who watch and listen to someone speaking or performing in public. |
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7.
chapter |
one of the
parts into which a book is divided: I've only read as far as ~ 5. |
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8.
climax |
the most
exciting or important part of a story or experience that normally comes near
the end. |
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9.
comedy |
a play,
film etc that is intended to entertain people and make them laugh. |
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10. content |
the
ideas, facts, or opinions that are contained in a speech or a piece of
writing. |
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11. dénouement |
The final outcome of a fictional text,
especially in a drama, when the conflict is resolved. In tragedy,
it may be the hero’s or heroine’s destruction or his or her failure to
achieve his or her goals; in comedy, it may be the restoration of the
hero’s or heroine’s fortunes or the accomplishment of his or her goals. The
term is also known as ”solution”. |
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12. director |
the
person who gives instructions to the actors, cameraman etc in a film or play. |
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13. drama |
a play
for the theatre, television, radio etc. |
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12. fiction |
books and
stories about imaginary people and events. |
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15. flashback |
An episode which interrupts the chronological order
of a text in order to go back in time and show what happened earlier. It is
often used to reveal new information, which had previously been hidden from
the reader, at selected places so that the reader may understand a
character’s motivation better. |
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16. flat character |
a person
in a piece of fiction that does not show any character development. |
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17. genre |
a
particular type of art, writing, music etc, which has certain characteristics
that all examples of this type share. |
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18. leitmotif |
a feature
that appears often in something such as a book, a speech, or an artist's
work. |
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19. line |
a line of
words on a page, for example in a poem or a report. |
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20. metre |
the
arrangement of sounds in poetry into patterns of strong and weak beats. |
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21. monologue |
a long
speech by one character in a play or film. |
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22. narrative perspective |
a general
term for the point of view of piece of fiction. |
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23. narrative text |
text in
which the author relates an event or a sequence of events. |
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24. narrator |
a person
in some books, plays etc who tells the story. |
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25. novel |
a long fictional
prose text. It often has a large number of characters, different settings and
a complex plot. |
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26. novelist |
someone
who writes novels. |
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27. playwright |
someone
who writes dramas. |
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28. plot |
the
sequence of events in a story, novel or play as arranged by the author. It
says what happens and why. |
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29. poem |
a piece
of writing arranged in patterns of lines and of sounds which often rhyme,
expressing thoughts, emotions, and experiences in words that excite your
imagination. |
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30. poet |
someone
who writes poems. |
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31. prop |
a small
object such as a book, weapon etc used by actors in a play or film. |
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32. prose |
written
language in its usual form, as opposed to poetry. |
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33. protagonist |
the most
important character in a play, film, or story. |
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34. quatrain |
a group
of four lines in a poem. |
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35. rehearsal |
a period
or a particular occasion when all the people in a play, concert etc practise
it before a public performance. |
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36. rhyme |
the use
of words that rhyme in poetry, especially at the ends of lines. |
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37. round character |
a person
in a piece of fiction who shows a development of his or her character. |
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38. scene |
part of a
play during which there is no change in time or place. |
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39. setting |
the place
or time that the action of a book, film etc happens. |
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40. short story |
a short
fictional prose text which is meant to be read in a single sitting. |
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41. showing |
method of
characterizing persons through action, setting, and dialogue. |
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42. sketch |
a short
humorous scene on stage, television etc that is part of a larger show. |
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43. soliloquy |
a speech
in a play in which a character talks to himself or herself so that the
audience knows their thoughts. |
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44. stage direction |
a written
instruction to an actor to do something in a play. |
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45. stanza |
a group
of lines in a repeated pattern forming part of a poem. |
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46. stream-of-consciousness technique |
the expression
of thoughts and feelings in writing exactly as they pass through your mind,
without the usual ordered structure they have in formal writing. |
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47. style |
the
particular way someone uses words to express ideas, tell stories etc. |
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48. subtext |
a hidden
or second meaning in something that someone says or writes. |
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49. suspense |
a feeling
of excitement or anxiety when you do not know what will happen next. |
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50. telling |
method of
characterizing persons by explicitly stating their character traits: Tom
Waites is a foolish person. |
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51. tone |
the
general feeling or attitude expressed in a piece of writing, activity etc. |
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52. tragedy |
a serious
play or book that ends sadly, especially with the death of the main
character. |
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53. turning point |
A structural element of a fictional text, marking a
change in the conflict or suspense It usually follows the climax and precedes
the falling action. |
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54. verse |
a set of
lines of poetry that forms one part of a poem, and that usually has a pattern
that is repeated in the other parts. |
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55. writer |
someone
who writes books, stories etc, especially as a job. |