Vocabulary
The stage representation of an action or a story
What is a Play?
What the play means as opposed to what happens.
What is Theme?
Introduce new characters, new settings, foreshadow future events
What are Scenes and Acts?
Visualize the play
What is sitting in the Directors Chair?
EMPEROR: How can such a plain-looking bird sing so beautifully?
What is the most likely purpose of this line?
What is To foreshadow an event that will change the emperor's perspective?
A person who writes plays
What is a Playwright?
The events of the play, each action starts the next, connected.
Nonverbal instructions written as part of the script.
What are Stage Directions?
Use your five senses to experience the characters.
What is visualizing the characters?
The best summary of the play.
What is: The emperor hears about a nightingale, and when he sees it, he is impressed by its song but not by its looks. Later a craftsman brings the emperor an attractive mechanical nightingale. Since the real nightingale has been replaced, it leaves, returning only when the emperor has learned an important lesson.
The conversation between actors on stage
What is Dialogue?
The people presented in the play who are involved in the plot.
What are Characters?
The important information that the audience needs to know in order to follow the story line.
What is the Exposition
Read the title, characters, and get background information.
What is Preview?
The servants' conversation in Scene 1 is important because it -
What is Establishes how much the emperor values beauty?
Items carried on stage by an actor; small items on the set used by the actors
What are Props?
Word choices made by the playwright which define the characters.
What is Language and Dialogue?
Clues to the reader that something will eventually happen.
What is Foreshadowing?
Look for the theme and relate it to your life.
What is Evaluating?
Which words from Scene 4 help the reader know what DISTORTED means?
What is Broke Last Year?
A signal, either verbal or physical, that indicates something else, such as a line of dialogue or an entrance, is to happen.
What is a Cue?
Physical, psychological, cultural, or historical background of the play.
What is Setting?
The struggle or problem, the sequence of connected actions throughout the play.
What is Plot?
Look at the drama all the way through.
What is Read?
Why are the stage directions at the end of Scene 3 important?
What is They tell the reader that the nightingale abandons the emperor?