EQ: WHY DO WE LEARN KEY VOCABULARY?

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The difficulty of your set could be

increased if you do a jam followed by a

peach.

TRANSLATION:

THE POINT VALUES YOU CAN EARN ON YOUR GYMNASTICS ROUTINE CAN BE BIGGER IF YOU INCLUDE, IN SEQUENCE, TWO PARTICULAR SKILLS ON THE UNEVEN PARALLEL BARS: THE "JAM," WHICH LEAVES THE GYMNAST SITTING ON THE HIGH BAR; AND THE "PEACH," WHERE THE GYMNAST MOVES FROM THE

HIGH BAR TO THE LOW BAR.

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DRAMA TERMS

SHAKESPEARE

-famous English Playwright

TRAGEDY

-A drama in which the main character meets with disaster or misfortune as a result of fate or a

serious character flaw

TRAGIC HERO

-an individual with considerable social standing whose character is

neither good nor bad. This character suffers some sort of downfall or even death. The

audience is to identify with this hero.

PROLOGUE

-an introductory statement of a play that gives information that establishes setting, introduces

characters, or indicates a theme or moral that the author wishes to

convey

CHORUS

-a group of people who comment on the actions of the play or who

introduce the prologue

ASIDE

-a remark made to the audience, unheard by other characters,

expressing the character's thoughts.

SOLILOQUY

-a speech in which a character alone on stage expresses his or her thoughts to the audience.

MONOLOGUE

-a lengthy speech addressed to other characters, not the

audience.

VERBAL IRONY

-When a person says one thing yet means another

DRAMATIC IRONY

A situation in which the audience knows more than the

characters on stage

SITUATIONAL IRONY

The outcome of a situation is the opposite of what we expect. Winning the lottery and dying the next day is situational irony.

BLANK VERSE

-poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (10 syllable

lines in which every second syllable is stressed).

SONNET

-a 14-line poem commonly used by Shakespeare in his plays

COUPLET

-two rhyming lines found at the end of a Shakespearean sonnet

CHARACTERIZATION

Various means by which an author develops a character

S-SaysT-ThoughtsE-Effects on OthersA-ActionsL-Looks

FOIL

Characters who highlight or bring out the personality traits of another

character by contrasting with the other character

STAGE DIRECTIONS

-notes within a drama that tell how a character should move on stage

FLAT CHARACTERS

one-dimensional characters; possess just one character trait

ROUND CHARACTERS

-possess many character traits; more like real people

RESOLUTION

-the ending or how the conflict is resolved

FORESHADOWING

-hints of what’s to come in the play

METAPHOR

-a direct comparison between two unlike objects. “Juliet is the sun”

SIMILE

-a comparison between two unlike objects using “like” or “as”

“Lips as red as roses”

PERSONIFICATION

-giving human-like qualities to nonhuman things

“daffodils dancing in the breeze”

OXYMORON

-Two opposite or contradictory words juxtaposed

“Bittersweet,”

PUN

-a play on words that uses one word that has different meanings

ACT

a major division of a play; some plays may contain several

SCENE

A subdivision of a play; a change of setting or scenery

indicates a new scene

EPITHET

a term or phrase used to describe a person or thing

Ex. Richard the lionheartedDwayne, the rock, Johnson

Odysseus, master of land ways and sea ways

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