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A series of events related to the central conflict or struggle.
What is PLOT?
Lines whispered to the audience or to another character on stage (not meant to be heard by all the characters on stage)
What is ASIDE?
A light play with a happy ending.
What is COMEDY?
A serious play having an unhappy ending.
What is TRAGEDY?
Giving the quality of life to inanimate things.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
Lines that give a hint or clue to future events (It doesn't tell the future but hints at it.)
What is FORESHADOW?
Occurs when the audience knows something that the character on stage is not aware.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
A bit of humor injected into a serious play to relieve the heavy tension of tragic events.
What is COMIC RELIEF?
Literature enacted in front of an audience by people who play the parts of the characters.
What is DRAMA?
The author of the play.
What is PLAYWRIGHT?
The written work from which a drama is produced.
What is SCRIPT?
The speech of actors in a play. Conversation.
What is DIALOGUE?
A single character on stage thinking out loud (a way of letting the audience know what is in the character's mind)
What is SOLILOQUY?
A major division of a drama.
What is an ACT?
A short section that presents action that occurs in a single place or at a single time. divides the act.
What is SCENE?
a long speech given with other actors on the stage
What is monologue?
The area in which the action is performed.
What is STAGE?
Everything placed upon the stage to give the impression of a particular setting, or place and time.
What is SET?
Items that can be carried on and off that stage by actors of manipulated by actors during scenes.
What are PROPERTIES?
The sounds introduced to create mood or to indicate the presence of something.
What are SOUND EFFECTS?
A type of stage that the audience sits or stands on three sides of the stage.
What is a thrust stage?
A stage in which the audience stands or sits in a semicircular open space. They see all sides of the stage.
What is a round STAGE?
A stage that extends into the audience.
What is THRUST STAGE?
A stage that has an arch around an opening that acts as a removed "fourth wall." The audience faces the stage.
What is the proscenium stage?
Someone who tells a story, often a character who introduces, concludes, or comments upon the action of the play.
What is NARRATOR?