Literary Terms
The term for the sequence of events in the story.
What is plot?
Conversation on stage between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
The main musical line or a song or its tune.
What is the melody?
The person who creates the music.
Who is the composer?
Of upstage or downstage: the part of the stage closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
The two words that describe the setting of a story.
What are time and place?
One character speaking a lengthy amount of lines without interruption.
What is monologue?
The term for singing or playing the same part at the same time.
What is unison?
The person who writes the lyrics for the songs.
Who is the lyricist?
The areas on just off the lighted part of the stage on either side from where actors make entrances.
The term for the people in the story and the qualities that make them who they are.
What is character?
A specific type of monologue where a character is left alone on stage.
What is soliloquy?
The highest voice part for male singers with changed voices.
What is tenor?
The person responsible for the artistic vision of the show who works with designers, actors, and other creators to put the show together.
Who is the director?
Of the actor's or the audience's: the perspective that decides stage directions.
What is the actor's?
The term for the point of the story, or the lesson it teaches.
What is theme or moral?
The term for when a character on stage says something that others on stage "can't hear".
What is an aside?
The lower voice part for female or unchanged male voices.
What is alto?
The person who creates the dances for a show.
Who is the choreographer?
The type of stage we have, or the name for the "frame" around the stage itself.
What is proscenium?
The original material on which a show is based.
What is source material?
Using body movements and actions to communicate on stage without speaking out loud.
What is pantomime?
The lowest voice part for male voices.
What is bass?
The person responsible for the money side of a show.
Who is the producer?
The area of the stage in front of the curtain or the arch.
What is the apron?