Chorus

Entertainment / Music / Chorus: A group singing in unison.
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Act

Entertainment / Literature / Act: A major division in a play. Often, individual acts are divided into smaller units (scenes') that all take place in a specific location. Originally, Greek plays were not divided into acts. They took pl MORE

Call And Response

Entertainment / Music / Call And Response: Performance style with a singing leader who is imitated by a chorus of followers. Also responsorial singing. MORE

Hokku

Entertainment / Literature / Hokku: In Japanese poetry, the term hokku literally means 'starting verse.' A hokku was the first starting link of a much longer chain of verses known as renga or linked verse. The hokku was traditionally th MORE

Drama

Entertainment / Literature / Drama: A composition in prose or verse presenting, in pantomime and dialogue, a narrative involving conflict between a character or characters and some external or internal force (see conflict). Playwrights MORE

Strophe

Entertainment / Literature / Strophe: In classical Greek literature like the play Antigon???? and the Pindaric Odes, the strophe and the antistrophe were alternating stanzas sung aloud. In drama, the chorus would sing the strophe, probabl MORE

Trochee

Entertainment / Literature / Trochee: A two-syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress. Many words in English naturally form trochees, including happy, hammer, Pittsburgh, nugget, double, inces MORE