Structure
This type of literature is meant to be performed as a play.
What is drama?
This flat area is raised up above the audience’s seats, and the actors act out the play here.
What is a stage?
We call the spoken lines of a play this...
What is dialogue?
These plays make you laugh.
What is comedy?
This is what we call the author of the play.
What is a playwright?
This text has the play's dialogue and stage instructions.
What is a script?
When an actor is facing the audience, this side of the stage is to his/her right.
What is right stage?
These are the long bunch of lines an actor says while other actors are also on stage.
What is a monologue?
These plays have very sad endings that are caused by a character who has a flaw in his/her personality.
What is a tragedy?
This is the personality flaw that makes tragedies happen.
What is a tragic flaw?
These written instructions are often in italics and let the actor know how to move, what facial expressions to make, what the setting should look like, etc.
What are stage directions?
When an actor is facing the audience, this side of the stage is to his/her left.
What is left stage?
These are the lines an actor says while on stage alone.
What is a soliloquy?
In this type of play you only hear the actors' voices, and it was very popular before televisions were a thing.
What are radio dramas?
This is what the event is called when actors act out a play for an audience.
What is a performance?
Like chapters of a book divide the story, these parts of a play divide the play.
What are acts?
This area of the stage is the farthest part at the back of the stage.
What is upstage?
These are the lines an actor says that the audience understands are meant to seem like the other actors on stage cannot hear.
What is an aside?
These types of dramas are performed live in front of an audience.
What is live theater?
These are the objects used by actors on a stage to help act out their parts (or the objects used to help create the background/setting).
What are props?
These sections of a play are the result of Acts being divided into smaller parts.
What are scenes?
This part of the stage is at the front closest to the audience.
What is down stage?
This word doesn't belong in this category, but it is when the audience knows something that the character on stage doesn't know.
What is dramatic irony.
This type of drama uses a camera to record the acting and focuses the audiences attention in a more controlled way by editing it into a film.
What are movies?
This is the building that has a stage, curtains that can be closed on the stage, and seats for an audience to view the play is called this
What is a theater?