What is a major section of a play; acts are divided into varying numbers of shorter scenes
100
Antagonist
What is the character who struggles against the lead character in a story
100
Comedy
What is a play that involves the humorous treatment of an unusual incident character or thought. Comedies have happy endings. They are considered the most difficult plays to perform on stage
100
Couplet
What is two lines of verse with similar end-rhymes
200
Aside
What is in drama, a speech directed to the audience that supposedly is not audible to the other characters on the stage at the time
200
Chorus
What is a group of people who serve mainly as commentators on the characters and events
200
Dialogue
What is the actual words that characters speak; authors use dialogue skilfully in the short story to portray character and to dramatize conflict.
200
Dialect
What is the way a language is spoken in a particular region or place.
300
Dialogue
What is - the actual words that characters speak; authors use dialogue skilfully in the short story to portray character and to dramatize conflict
300
Drama
What is includes improvisation, role-playing, storytelling, mime, Reader’s Theatre, scripts, interviews, dance, theatre games, etc.
300
Foil
What is in fiction, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character
300
Tragic flaw
What is - the character flaw or defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist in a tragedy
400
Soliloquy
What is the act of talking while or as if alone; often used as a device in drama to disclose a character's innermost thought.
400
Stage directions
What is instructions written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of actors, placement of props, etc
400
Subplot
What is - longer plays often include a second conflict which furnishes the basis for the subplot; creates a second line of interest in the play. A subplot should not overpower the main plot.
400
Tragic hero
What is the literary character that has the tragic l aw, combined with many other conflicts, and makes the often fatal error in judgment that leads to tragedy.
500
Plays
What is - drama that includes silent plays, tableau/pantomime, stage plays, puppet plays, radio plays, etc. The four parts of a play include:
Exposition: the introduction where characters are introduced and setting, conflict and mood are established.
Rising action: suspense increases and events happen which makes the audience what will happen in the play.
Climax: Reveals a decision, action or event which determines the outcome of the conflict.
Resolution: Resolves the conflict. Answers the question asked by the play.Solves the problem
500
Tragedy
What is - a dramatic composition, dealing with a serious theme, typically that of a great person of affluence destined, through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction
500
Tragedy
What is - a dramatic composition, dealing with a serious theme, typically that of a great person of affluence destined, through a flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, as fate or society, to downfall or destruction