Words About People in a Play
Stage Words
Types of Speech in a Play
Features of a Play
Additional Terms
100
Another word for actors
What is characters?
100
Basic parts of drama in a play
What are acts?
100
A long uninterrupted speech delivered by a character to other characters who are onstage but remain silent.
What is monologue?
100
The basic units of a play
What is acts?
100
The author of a play
What is author?
200
A main character who dies
What is a tragic hero?
200
Parts of a play when the background changes
What are scenes?
200
A speech where a character is usually alone and revealing private thoughts for the audience to hear.
What is soliloguy?
200
The units of a play where the background changes
What are scenes?
200
A struggle
What is conflict?
300
A group of performers
What is chorus?
300
Movable objects that actors use on stage
What are props?
300
Dialogue in a play that includes conversations between two characters or one character and the audience.
What is dramatic speech?
300
Death of a hero or main character
What is tragedy?
300
Story with a happy ending
What is comedy?
400
The entertainment presented before an audience
What is performance?
400
A brief remark in which a character expresses private thoughts to the audience.
What is aside?
400
Sequence of events
What is plot?
400
Insight into life
What is theme?
500
A mistaken action or defect in character
What is tragic flaw?
500
The speech or conversation of characters
What is dialogue?
500
Point of greatest tension in a story.
What is climax?
500
The elements of drama
What is dramatic effect?
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