a play. It is meant to be performed on stage for an audience.
What is drama?
100
the words that are spoken by the actors
What is dialogue?
100
small moveable objects that the actors use to make the play seem real
What are props?
100
words that have the same meaning
What are synonyms?
100
a brief reference to a person, event, place, or to a work of art
What is allusion?
200
the author of the play
What is the playwright?
200
is part of a play
What is act?
200
these directions are usually placed in parentheses and/or italics and give directions to the actors how to act on stage
What are stage directions?
200
words that are opposites
What are antonyms?
200
a figurative expression; means something different than what the words actually say (ex. "Let's bury the hatchet" - stop fighting. "Get on with your rat killing" - get back to what you were doing.
What is an idiom?
300
In general, this type of play involves the ruin of the leading characters (something depressing or disastrous happens)
What is tragedy?
300
a part of an act
What is scene?
300
a type of play that is lighter drama which is amusing and ends well
What is a comedy?
300
a word part that is added to the beginning of a word (like re- and pre-)
What is a prefix?
300
two opposite words come together for a special effect (jumbo shrimp, inside out, original copay, bittersweet)
What is an oxymoron?
400
an introductory scene (usually where a narrator summarizes the main action or setting of the scene)
What is the prologue?
400
a long speech by one single character to other characters
What is a monologue?
400
the written form of a play
What is a script?
400
a word part that is added to the end of a word (like -ed or -ly)
What is a suffix?
400
a play on words (ex. The ballet shoes made a point)
What is a pun?
500
a long speech delivered by a character who is alone onstage (typically reveals the private thoughts of a character)
What is a soliloquy?
500
an appendix (usually a concluding address) to a play
What is the epilogue?
500
the playwright's technique of creating believable characters through actions, dialogue, and movements
What is characterization?
500
using other words in the sentence or passage to help determine the meaning of an unknown word
What are context clues?
500
when the author leaves us hanging about what will happen next after the story ends - we are left hanging.