Vocab 1
The highest point of dramatic tension or a turning point in a story/play.
What is Climax?
The profession, art, or activity of those who perform in stage plays.
What is acting?
A work written to be spoken by just one person.
What is monologue?
Clues given to the audience about upcoming events in the play.
What is foreshadowing?
The opposition of persons, forces, or ideas that gives rise to dramatic tension in a play.
What is conflict?
The main idea or message of a play.
What is theme?
A composition intended to portray life, a character, or to tell a story usually involving conflicts and emotions through action and dialogue.
What is drama?
The principal character around whom the action revolves.
What is protagonist?
The point of a play where action meets obstacle.
What is conflict?
Acting without words.
What is pantomime?
What happens in a play.
What is plot?
A set of actors in a play.
What is cast?
Information about what has happened before the beginning of a play.
/What is exposition?
A movement of the hand, head, arms, body, or face that is expressive of an idea, emotion, etc.
What is gesture?
The state Ms. Smith is from.
What is Alabama?
The parts actors portray in a play.
What is cast?
Words spoken by actors in a play.
What is dialogue.
An observation or remark made by a character to the audience that is not being heard by the other characters.
What is aside?
The character who provides the obstacle to the protagonists' objective in the play.
What is antagonist?
The city Ms. Smith used to live in.
What is Birmingham, AL?
The resolution of conflict in a play.
What is denouement?
A short, informal, usually comic piece.
What is a skit?
A speech in which a character, usually alone on stage, speaks his/her thoughts out loud.
What is soliloquy?
One who interprets a dramatic character.
What is an actor?
The greatest college football team of all time.
What is The Alabama Crimson Tide???!!!!