Reading Terms
What is the name for the spoken words characters say in a play?
Dialogue
If something is ugly or disgusting to look at, what word describes it?
Hideous
What does the root vex mean?
Annoy
What is a written work that tells a story through action and speech and is meant to be acted onstage?
Drama
What Age did Edgar Allan Poe DIE?
40
What is the name for the scenery and furniture placed onstage?
SET
What does it mean to vex someone?
Annoy, frustrate, or worry someone
What does the root mort mean?
Death
What is a section of a play, similar to a chapter in a book?
Act
What is the use of an object, word, or image to represent an idea?
Symbolism
What is the playwright?
A person who writes plays
What does the word cease mean?
Bring to an end
What does the root fid mean?
Trust or faith
What are the small objects actors use onstage called?
Props
What is a difference between expectation and reality called?
Irony
What term describes instructions in a script that tell actors how and when to move?
Stage Directions
What word describes excessive talking that does not make much sense?
Blather
Give me a word that contains the word mort.
Mortal, immortal
What is a smaller part of a story set at a specific time and place?
Scene
What is the feeling created by an author’s tone, or the reader’s emotional response?
Mood
What is a short speech a character delivers directly to the audience called?
Aside
If someone tries to suppress a yawn, which vocabulary word describes that action?
Stifle
What is a word that contains the root fid?
Confident, fidelity, or confidence
What is the entire written text of a play called?
Script
What reveals an author’s attitude toward a written work, often through word choice?
Tone