Dramatic+Terminology+for+Othello

**Dramatic Terminology for Othello**

 * Elizabethan Tragedy**: A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse.

//**Character Types:**//
 * Protagonist** - The chief character in a work
 * Antagonist** - The character that opposes the protagonist
 * Round Character** – A character whose personality is well developed by the author.
 * Static Character**- A character who does not learn any lesson or grow from the story or action of a play.
 * Dynamic Characte**r - A character that learns and grows through out the course of the story or play.
 * Flat Character** – A character whose personality is not well developed.
 * Stereotypical Character** – A character that relies heavily on cultural types or names for his or her personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics.

//**Elements of Plot:**//
 * Setting**: The time and place in which the story or action is taking place.
 * Conflict**: The problem that the main character faces. The character attempting to solve this conflict is what drives the plot.
 * Exposition** – The beginning of the play where major characters, complications, and conflict are introduced, and setting is established.
 * Rising Action** - The part in the plot where the conflict continues to grow, despite the protagonist’s attempt to solve it. Rising action is all of the action, after the conflict is introduced, up to climax.
 * Climax** - The climax is the portion of the plot where the highest tension exists. This is the point of the play where the conflict is at its highest point and something is going to happen to cause the conflict to move towards being solved. Once climax occurs, the conflict cannot grow stronger.
 * Falling Action** - It follows the climax. During falling action the conflict works towards a solution.
 * De`nouement** - Literally, “unknotting.” The ending of a play in which the conflict finally comes to an end.


 * Theme**: The theme is the general idea or insight about life that a writer wishes to express.

Dramatic Irony**: When an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
 * //Irony//:
 * Situational Iron**y: A discrepancy between the expected result and actual results.
 * Verbal Irony:** When a character in drama or fiction says something contrary to what he/she means.