Play Vocab
Opening to a plot line that establishes the setting and background.
What is prologue?
The general structure of a play, film, or novel.
What is plot?
Insight into life's lessons revealed through the text.
What is theme?
What is dialogue?
Key items that are used in plays to act out scenes.
What is a prop?
The end of the story when the problem is solved.
What is the Resolution?
The environment, time and place of a play, novel, or film.
What is a setting?
Sentences of the play numbered like a poem.
What is a line?
The physical document that an actor reads from.
What is a script?
This part of the plot is the high point of interest with suspense.
What is the climax?
A few sentences that covers the events of a passage or situation.
What is a summary?
Large unit of a play.
What is an act?
A person that writes plays
What is a playwright?
the part of the work that introduces the characters and setting.
What is exposition?
A thing or idea that represents something else.
What is a symbol?
Smaller units of the play within larger sections.
What is a scene?
A speech by one character who is alone on the stage.
What is a monologue?
This part of the plot involves the building of tension.
What is rising action?
A meter of unstressed followed by stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
The lines written to tell actors what actions to do on stage.
What is stage directions?