The document defines key elements of drama through a fill-in-the-blank exercise. It discusses spectacle, monologue, soliloquy, dialogue, and aside as different types of spoken words used on stage. It describes how tragedy is meant to elicit fear and pity from audiences to produce catharsis. A tragic hero possesses a tragic flaw that despite their noble character causes their downfall, known as a tragic fall, achieving true tragedy when they realize their flaw.
The document defines key elements of drama through a fill-in-the-blank exercise. It discusses spectacle, monologue, soliloquy, dialogue, and aside as different types of spoken words used on stage. It describes how tragedy is meant to elicit fear and pity from audiences to produce catharsis. A tragic hero possesses a tragic flaw that despite their noble character causes their downfall, known as a tragic fall, achieving true tragedy when they realize their flaw.
The document defines key elements of drama through a fill-in-the-blank exercise. It discusses spectacle, monologue, soliloquy, dialogue, and aside as different types of spoken words used on stage. It describes how tragedy is meant to elicit fear and pity from audiences to produce catharsis. A tragic hero possesses a tragic flaw that despite their noble character causes their downfall, known as a tragic fall, achieving true tragedy when they realize their flaw.
The document defines key elements of drama through a fill-in-the-blank exercise. It discusses spectacle, monologue, soliloquy, dialogue, and aside as different types of spoken words used on stage. It describes how tragedy is meant to elicit fear and pity from audiences to produce catharsis. A tragic hero possesses a tragic flaw that despite their noble character causes their downfall, known as a tragic fall, achieving true tragedy when they realize their flaw.
Elements of Drama. Fill in the blanks. Choose from the answers in the box.
soliloquy tragic hero spectacle
monologue dialogue tragic flaw
pity fear catharsis
tragic fall aside pathos
1. In drama, there is usually no narrator; the audience is invited to infer
meaning from the characters' actions, words, and the props on stage and other sensorial embellishments (costumes, lighting, music and sound effects, etc.) that make up the play's _SPECTACLE. 2. Spoken words onstage may be classified into four: when a single character delivers a long speech, its called a _MONOLOGUE. 3. When that long speech is delivered as though the character is speaking to himself/herself alone on the stage, it’s called _SOLILOQUY_. 4. When character speak to one another, the exchange of word is called _DIALOGUE_. 5. When a character steps out of the scene for a while to confidentially address the audience, perhaps to comment about the scene or another character, it’s called an _ASIDE_. 6-8. Plays are largely classified into two according to purpose: tragedy and comedy (with tragicomedy as a combination). The purpose of tragedy is to elicit two emotions from the audience, (6) _FEAR_ and (7) _PITY_, to produce (8) _CATHARSIS__ or emotional release in the audience. 9-10. To attain the purpose of tragedy, the protagonist called a _TRAGIC HERO_ must be highly relatable to the audience in the he/she, like a typical human being, possesses a noble character yet afflicted with a weakness called a __TRAGIC FLAW__. 11. This weakness, minor in comparison to the hugeness of the character's noble traits, nevertheless causes his/her downfall. The result is called __TRAGIC FALL__, or an overdetermined series of events that have snowballed into inevitable, and to some degree undeserved, ruin. 12. Tragedy, however, is only truly attained when the protagonist realizes his/her flaw. Otherwise, what is attained is simply _PATHOS__ or mere sentimentality.