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Dramatis personae (Latin: 'persons of the drama') are the main characters in a dramatic work written in a list. [not verified in body] Such lists are commonly employed in various forms of theatre, and also on screen. [not verified in body] Typically, off-stage characters are not considered part of the dramatis personae.
Histrionic personality disorder; Dramatic behavior is a key marker of histrionic personality disorder: Specialty: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry: Symptoms: Persistent attention seeking, dramatic behavior, rapidly shifting and shallow emotions, sexually provocative behavior, undetailed style of speech, and a tendency to consider relationships more intimate than they actually are.
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
Characterization or characterisation is the representation of characters (persons, creatures, or other beings) in narrative and dramatic works.The term character development is sometimes used as a synonym.
The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, [3] 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". [4]
a dramatic technique in which a line is said by one character to him or herself or to the audience. The line is unheard by the other characters onstage. Audience People watching a drama. Avenue Staging the staging of a performance with the audience placed on two sides, as though the performance space is a street.
It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. Thus, "an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art." [2] In ancient times, it might refer more broadly to a description of any thing, person, or experience.
A paraprosdokian (/ p ær ə p r ɒ s ˈ d oʊ k i ə n /), or par'hyponoian, is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.