Genre
What is the most intense part of the story called?
What is the climax?
What is the main character in the story called?
What is the protagonist?
What is the major division in a play called?
What is an act?
Instructions for the characters on how to act and where to go on stage
Sets the stage by providing background information
What is the exposition?
What is the character that opposes the main character and provides conflict called?
What is the antagonist?
What is something that creates mood, atmosphere, and directs the audience to a particular character or area on stage?
What is lighting?
What is the central struggle between opposing forces called?
What is conflict?
The way someone speaks based on the region or social background
What is dialect?
What is the literary device that interrupts the story to present an event from the past called?
What is a flashback?
What is the literary genre that is meant to be performed on stage?
What is drama?
What is the series of events that build tension?
What is the rising action?
What is it called when a character makes a comment directly to the audience?
What is an aside?
What is it called when a character delivers a long speech to other characters on stage?
What is a monologue?
What is the literary device that creates suspense and anticipation for the audience by hinting at something that will occur later on in the plot?
What is a story that reveals a hidden meaning called?
What is it called when the tension decreases and the story begins to resolve?
What is the falling action?
What is it called when the audience of the play knows something the characters don't?
What is it called when a character who is alone (or thinks they are alone) delivers a long speech about their feelings/inner thoughts
What is a soliloquy?
Lightens the tragic or dramatic effect by giving the audience a breather.
What is comic relief?