A brief comment made by a character directly to the audience
What is an aside?
100
A personality or role an actor/actress re-creates
What is a character?
100
The point of greatest dramatic tension or transition in a theatrical work
What is climax?
100
The final resolution of the conflict in a plot
What is denouement?
100
Clothing worn by an actor on stage during a performance
What is costume?
200
The conversation between actors on stage
What is dialogue?
200
Detailed information revealing the facts of a plot
What is exposition?
200
Items carried on stage by an actor; small items on the set used by the actors
What is a prop?
200
The part of a plot consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict
What is rising action?
200
Two words that agree in sound while differing in sense
What is a pun?
300
A character's reason for doing or saying things in a play
What is motivation?
300
A group of theatrical artists working together to create a theatrical production
What is an ensemble?
300
A play that uses conventions such as farce, irony, mistaken identities, disguises, and convoluted plot
What is comedy?
300
The particular literary structure and style in which plays are written
What is dramatic structure?
300
The theater of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and often extended to the close of the theaters in 1640
What is Elizabethan theatre?
400
the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect
What is a malapropism?
400
A reading of a script done by actors who have not previously reviewed the play
What is a cold reading?
400
The purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity, fear, grief, etc.) affected in a work of tragedy
What is catharsis?
400
The development and portrayal of a personality through thought, action, dialogue, costuming, and makeup
What is characterization?
400
The pronunciation of words, the choice of words, and the manner in which a person expresses himself or herself
What is diction?
500
Shakespeare's virtuoso form of writing where each line has 10 syllables with five pairs of alternating stressed and unstressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
500
Established characters, such as young lovers, neighborhood busybodies, sneaky villains who are not fully-developed or three-dimensional
What is a stock character?
500
a long speech a character gives to himself or herself allowing the audience to know his or her thoughts and feelings; is not spoken to another character, but rather the audience
What is a soliloquy?
500
Information that is implied by a character but not stated by a character in dialogue, including actions and thoughts
What is subtext?
500
A long speech by a single character to another character(s)