I am a symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
What is allegory?
100
I am the turning point in the story: the point of greatest tension.
What is the climax of a story?
100
I cause the action in a story and am often the "good guy."
What is a Protagonist ?
100
I am the spectacle a play presents in performance, including the position of actors on stage, the scenic background, the props and costumes, and the lighting and sound effects.
What is staging?
100
I am articles or objects that appear on stage during a play.
What is a prop?
200
An example of me is often a villain or a character or force against which another character struggles.
What is an antagonist?
200
I love you (but secretly hate you) is an example of which drama term?
What is irony?
200
I am a speech by a single character without another character's response.
What is Monologue?
200
I am a quality of a play's action that stimulates the audience to feel pity for a character?
What is pathos?
200
I am words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play.
What is an aside?
300
I am the conversation between characters in a literary work.
What is dialogue?
300
I will tell you the first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided.
What is Exposition?
300
"Deadpool" sure does like to use me to breakdown the imaginary wall of the box theater setting, supposedly removed to allow the audience to see the action.
Who am I?
What is the Fourth Wall?
300
The plot falling! The plot is falling? Who am I?
What is the Falling Action?
300
Types of me include: man versus man, man versus self, man versus god(s), man versus nature, man versus the machine, man versus society.
What is conflict?
400
I am the physical movement of a character during a play. It is used to reveal character, and may include facial expressions as well as movements of other parts of an actor's body.
What is Gesture?
400
"I bet if I think real hard I can remember my first pair of shoes" from Forrest Gump is an example of me.
What is Flashback?
400
I am a writer of drama like Arthur Miller.
What is a playwright?
400
A great example of me is the vulgar nurse from "Romeo and Juliet." I often interrupt a tragedy with a little lightheartedness.
What is comic relief?
400
I am a playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play.
What is Stage Direction?
500
I am Latin for the characters or persons in a play.
What is Dramatis Personae?
500
I am the point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist?
What is Reversal?
500
I am a speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage.
What is a Soliloquy ?
500
I am the resolution to a story but what is my name in French?
What is denouement?
500
I am a story within a story-A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.