This terms refers to a brief explanation of what characters are trying to do in a play.
What is dramatic action?
100
The main events of a play.
What is plot?
100
The words that are spoken in a play; a conversation between 2 or more characters.
What is dialogue?
200
An actor who speaks only to the audience about the story
Who is a narrator?
200
The area of the stage that is farthest away from the audience.
What is upstage?
200
This term refers to the beginning part of a plot that provides background information.
What is exposition?
200
The single situations or units of dialogue that comprise a play.
What are scenes?
200
A speech given by one actor.
What is a monologue?
300
Group of actors that comment on the play.
Who is the chorus?
300
This location/stage direction describes when an actor standing in the center of the stage, facing the audience, moves to his/her right.
What is 'stage right'?
300
This term refers to the obstacles that get in the way of a character achieving goals.
What is conflict?
300
The time and place of a scene.
What is the setting?
300
This is what actors do when they create a dramatic scene spontaneously, without planning.
What is Improv?
400
A group of actors that form a theatre company.
What is a troupe?
400
The part of the stage that is closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
400
The middle part of the plot, consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict.
What is rising action?
400
A central idea or issue in a play.
What is theme?
400
This specific kind of monologue is a dramatic speech by one character in which the character reveals his/her private, inner-most thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
500
All the people who perform in a play.
What is the cast?
500
This is the location/stage direction used to describe when an actor standing in the center of the stage, facing the audience, moves to his/her left.
What is 'stage left'?
500
This term refers to the 'turning point' in a play's plot. (In a comedy, things will improve at this point; in a tragedy, things will worsen at this point.)
What is the climax?
500
A composition (written work) in prose or verse to be acted on stage.
What is a drama?
500
A quick remark made by a character in a play that is said directly to the audience, not to other characters who are present.