The author of a play.
What is a playwright?
The place where a drama is performed.
What is a theater?
A person within a play.
What is a character?
Where and when the events in a story take place
What is the setting?
SAVAGE QUESTION!! WORTH DOUBLE!
In the excerpt below, what are the italicized parts called AND what do they mean to the reader?
Fairy: (handing a glass of water with medicine to Pinocchio) Take this, and in a few days you will be feeling much better.
Pinocchio: (glancing at the medicine and making a terrible face) Is it sweet or tart?
What are stage directions? Stage directions tell the actors how to react or move in addition to the lines they speak.
A type of literature that is meant to be performed on a stage by actors in front of an audience.
What is the drama?
The written text of a the play.
What is the script?
The background of the play.
What is the set?
The written words spoken by the characters in a play.
What is dialogue?
A glass of water, a sword, or a phone are examples of this.
What are props?
The main sections of a drama.
What are acts?
The basic sequence of events in the story.
What is the plot?
The special character, outside of the story, that gives the audience information that might not be known about the story or characters.
What is the narrator?
The smaller sections of the play that are within the act.
What are scenes?
Below is an example of?
Narrator 1
Narrator 2
Mrs. Myrtle Peabody
Maybelle
Henry the Flea
What is cast of characters?
How an author describes a character.
What is characterization?
The details given that describe what a character in a play does.
What are stage directions?
This describes how something looks, sounds, tastes, smells, or feels.
What is imagery?
SAVAGE QUESTION!! WORTH DOUBLE!
What is the following definition called and apply it to the drama we read, Jackie Robinson, by giving me an example.
The implied message, moral, or life lesson of the play.
What is theme?
background knowledge + evidence = ???
What is my inference?
A text that follows the same story line and has the same characters as an original story, but the format has changed.
What is adapted?
What is the writer's purpose in a drama?
What is to entertain?
This consists of the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is plot?
We read the drama James and the Giant Peach- What word(s) would you use to describe the characterization of the aunts?
What is selfish and cruel?
This is what tells the reader that the time and place (setting) of the action have changed.
What is a scene?