A series of events related to the central conflict or struggle.
What is PLOT?
100
Lines whispered to the audience or to another character on stage (not meant to be heard by all the characters on stage)
What is ASIDE?
100
A light play with a happy ending.
What is COMEDY?
100
A serious play having an unhappy ending.
What is TRAGEDY?
100
Giving the quality of life to inanimate things.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
200
Lines that give a hint or clue to future events (It doesn't tell the future but hints at it.)
What is FORESHADOW?
200
Occurs when the audience knows something that the character on stage is not aware.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
200
A bit of humor injected into a serious play to relieve the heavy tension of tragic events.
What is COMIC RELIEF?
200
Literature enacted in front of an audience by people who play the parts of the characters.
What is DRAMA?
200
The author of the play.
What is PLAYWRIGHT?
300
The written work from which a drama is produced.
What is SCRIPT?
300
The speech of actors in a play.
What is DIALOGUE?
300
A single character on stage thinking out loud (a way of letting the audience know what is in the character's mind)
What is SOLILOQUY?
300
A major division of a drama.
What is an ACT?
300
A short section that presents action that occurs in a single place or at a single time.
What is SCENE?
400
All of the elements of the drama presented to the scenes of the audience--lights, sets, curtains, costumes, makeup, music, sound effects, properties, and movements of the actors.
What is SPECTACLE?
400
The area in which the action is performed.
What is STAGE?
400
Everything placed upon the stage to give the impression of a particular setting, or place and time.
What is SET?
400
Items that can be carried on and off that stage by actors of manipulated by actors during scenes.
What are PROPERTIES?
400
The sounds introduced to create mood or to indicate the presence of something.
What are SOUND EFFECTS?
500
The act of determining how actors will move on stage.
What is BLOCKING?
500
A stage in which the audience stands or sits in a semicircular open space.
What is an ARENA STAGE?
500
A stage that extends into the audience.
What is THRUST STAGE?
500
A stage that has an arch around an opening that acts as a removed "fourth wall."
What is PICTURE STAGE?
500
Someone who tells a story, often a character who introduces, concludes, or comments upon the action of the play.