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Define Drama
A play for theater,radio, or television.
The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
Plot
Define aside
A remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
A division within an act
Scene
Professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.
Comedy
Define Conflict
The problem or main issue of the story.
Conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.
Dialogue
Define Act
A division within a play.
Define Tragedy
A play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character
A role in a play.
Character
Define soliloquy
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
In a play the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.
Setting
Define Stage directions
An instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.
Define cast of characters
The list of characters in the play.
Define theme
The subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
A long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
Monologue
What is a person who writes plays?
Playwright