Written conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
100
An interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time.
What is flashback?
100
Involves a character who struggles against a force outside him -or herself.
What is external conflict?
100
Instructions to the actors, director, and stage crew. Might suggest scenery, lighting, sound effects, and ways for actors to move and speak.
What are stage directions?
200
The written form of a play. Usually includes dialogue, cast of characters, and stage directions.
What is script?
200
A humorous play on words, usually involving different meanings for the same word.
What is pun?
200
Expresses the writer's attitude toward his or her subject.
What is tone?
200
A reader or viewer knows something that a character does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
200
A form of literature meant to be performed by actors in front of an audience.
What is drama?
300
The person who writes the drama.
Who is the playwright?
300
A speech in which a character speaks to a silent or absent listener in a moment of deep emotion.
What is monologue?
300
A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect.
What is hyperbole?
300
A struggle that occurs within a character.
What is internal conflict?
300
The main character in a story, play, or novel. Is involved in the main conflict of the story.
What is protagonist?
400
A major division within a play, similar to a chapter in a book.
What is act?
400
A character makes a brief remark, either to the audience or to another character.
What is aside?
400
An expression that has meaning different from the meaning of its individual words.
What is idiom?
400
Exists when someone knowingly exaggerates or says one thing and means another.
What is verbal irony?
400
A force working against the main character in the story, play,or novel. It is usually another character, but can be a force of nature, society itself, or an internal force with the main character.
What is antagonist?
500
A smaller section of a play.
What is scene?
500
A speech by a character alone on stage, whose words reveal what he or she is thinking or feeling.
What is soliloquy?
500
A brief account of an interesting incident or event that is usually intended to entertain or make a point.
What is anecdote?
500
A contrast between what a reader or character expects and what actually happens.
What is situational irony?
500
A point-by-point comparison between two things that are alike in some respects.