Storytime
The TECHNICAL stuff
Lights, Camera, ACTION
CREATIVE Dramatics
EXTRA
100
The time, and place of where the action of a story, play, movie, or show takes place. It's the where and when of a story.
What is SETTING?
100
The VISUAL BACKGROUND on a stage that lets you know where the action is taking place.
What is the SCENERY or SET?
100
The art of speaking and moving to create characters in plays, movie, and TV. It is an actor PRETENDING to look, feel, and think like different characters. It is what you did when we read our two plays.
What is ACTING?
100
The antagonist in The Three Little Pigs?
Who is the Big Bad Wolf?
100
A fake beard, a wig, and clothes from another time and place are examples of this.
What are COSTUMES?
200
It's WHO the story is about. It can be people or animals.
What are CHARACTERS?
200
The names of the two princesses in The Phantom Tollbooth.
Who are Rhyme and Reason?
200
The conflict in The Phantom Tollbooth.
What is Milo's laziness?
200
One theme of Damon and Pythias
What is true friendship requires loyalty and trust?
200
These are the large divisions of a play.
What are acts?
300
The SERIES OF EVENTS of a story; the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement.
What is PLOT?
300
Anything the actors carries or handles during a play.
What is a PROP?
300
The word used instead of dictator to describe the king in Damon and Pythias.
What is tyrant?
300
Another word for role
What is character?
300
A glass of water, a sword, or a phone are examples of this.
What are PROPS?
400
It is the written version of a play, movie, or show. Actors learn their lines from this and it tells them what to do and say. It describes all the details about the story.
What is a SCRIPT?
400
This is SOMETHING WE HEAR that is sometimes used in plays, movies, or shows TO CREATE A CERTAIN MOOD OR FEELING (such as suspense or fear).
What is SOUND EFFECTS and/or MUSIC?
400
A conversation between two or more characters.
What is DIALOGUE?
400
A genre of literature meant to be acted on a stage
What is DRAMA?
400
A character is someone who the story is about but this is the PERSON who is pretending to be that character.
What is an ACTOR?
500
A STRUGGLE OR PROBLEM a character must solve by the end of the story or play. It is usually someone or something that tests, or challenges, a character.
What is CONFLICT?
500
Damon
Who is took Pythias's place in prison?
500
The person telling the story
What is a NARRATOR?
500
This is the person who writes the play or drama.
What is a PLAYWRIGHT?
500
Explanations for the actors written in the script; where they go and how they act.
What are STAGE DIRECTIONS?
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