This document provides definitions for 15 key literary and dramatic terms: fiction, tone, summarize, theme, characterization, structural features, figure, narrator, prose, script, dialogue, gesture, context, audio drama, and stage directions. It concisely defines each term and gives examples of its meaning and use within works of literature, plays, or other creative works.
This document provides definitions for 15 key literary and dramatic terms: fiction, tone, summarize, theme, characterization, structural features, figure, narrator, prose, script, dialogue, gesture, context, audio drama, and stage directions. It concisely defines each term and gives examples of its meaning and use within works of literature, plays, or other creative works.
This document provides definitions for 15 key literary and dramatic terms: fiction, tone, summarize, theme, characterization, structural features, figure, narrator, prose, script, dialogue, gesture, context, audio drama, and stage directions. It concisely defines each term and gives examples of its meaning and use within works of literature, plays, or other creative works.
This document provides definitions for 15 key literary and dramatic terms: fiction, tone, summarize, theme, characterization, structural features, figure, narrator, prose, script, dialogue, gesture, context, audio drama, and stage directions. It concisely defines each term and gives examples of its meaning and use within works of literature, plays, or other creative works.
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Cambridge Lower Secondary English
Learner’s Book 1) Fiction- Stories that are invented or untrue. 2) Tone - The mood implied by an author’s word choice and the way that the text can make a reader feel. 3) Summarize - Give the brief statement of the main points of something. 4) Theme - The subject of a talk piece of writing, exhibition, etc. 5) Characterization - A description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something. 6) Structural features - The way a text is assembled. 7) Figure - A person of a particular kind especially one who is important or distinctive in some way. 8) Narrator - A person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem. 9) Prose - Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. 10) Script – A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance. 11) Dialogue – A conversation between two or more people as a future of a book, play or film. 12) Gesture - A movement of part of the body specially a hand or the head to express an idea or meaning. 13) Context – The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood. 14) Audio drama - Audio drama is a dramatized, purely, acoustic performance with no visual component. 15) Stage directions – An instruction in the text of a play indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lightning.
