Drama Vocabulary 1
the main sections of a musical or play
What is an act?
The people watching the performance
What is the audience?
all the items used in a play to tell the story not including the scenery or costumes.
What are props?
a person who writes a poem.
What is a poet?
"They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune…
How they clang, and clash, and roar!"
What is onomatopoeia?
The person or persons who are against the protagonist
What is an antagonist?
A list of the parts or people in the play
What is the cast?
The person who is the center of the story who makes the key decisions.
Who is the protagonist?
the voice of the poem
Who is the speaker?
"Spaghetti, spaghetti all over the place,
up to my elbows - up to my face."
What is a hyperbole?
special kind of clothing worn by actors on stage
What are costumes?
When two or more characters talk with each other
What is dialogue?
The divided sections of an act; some acts have one or two scenes and others might have many scenes before the next act occurs.
What is a scene?
a paragraph is a poem
What is a stanza?
"Why are you always such a Scrooge? It doesn't cost much, and it'll be fun!"
What is allusion?
a play for theater, radio, or television.
What is drama?
The person (or people) who speak directly to the audience to tell a story, give information or comment on the action of the scene or characters.
What is the narrator?
The written words of a drama
What is a script?
the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line
What is rhyme scheme?
"I saw an ol' gnome
Take a gknock at a gnat
Who was gnibbling the gnose of his gnu."
What is alliteration?
The sequence of events of a play
What is the plot?
what the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her perspective)
What is point of view?
Instructions that give the actors information relating to how to perform the play (what to do, where to go, or how act).
What are stage directions?
the rhythmic measure of a line
What is meter?
"it's the same difference."
What is an oxymoron?