Text and Technique
The text type that tells a story with characters, setting, and a plot.
What is a narrative?
The frozen moment performers hold to show a key idea or relationship.
What is a tableaux?
The quick starter task you give students as soon as they walk in.
What is a Do Now task?
The main character of a story.
What is a protagonist?
The type of text Romeo and Juliet is.
What is a play?
A technique where you compare two things using “like” or “as”.
What is a similie?
The area of the stage closest to the audience.
What is downstage?
The move where you give two acceptable choices so the student feels control, but both options still meet your goal.
The character or force that opposes the protagonist.
When a character’s decisions cause their own downfall.
What is a tragic flaw/hamartia?
A technique where an object represents a bigger idea (like a “cage” representing lack of freedom).
What is symbolism?
The drama skill of using your face/body to show emotion clearly without words.
What is mime?
A simple classroom routine where you count down (or clap) so everyone stops and listens.
What is an attention signal?
When a character changes over time because of events in the story.
What is an arc/journey?
The moment the audience knows something the character doesn’t.
What is dramatic irony?
The technique where you repeatedly use consonant sounds at the start of words.
What is alliteration?
The theatre term for how performers move and position themselves to create meaning on stage.
What is blocking?
A positive behaviour strategy where you praise the behaviour you want so others copy it.
What is positive reinforcement?
The turning point where everything starts going downhill or escalates fast.
What is the climax?
The pattern of stressed/unstressed beats Shakespeare often writes in.
What is iambic pentameter?
The term for a writer’s choice used to shape meaning and tone.
What is style?
A performance convention where the actor speaks their thoughts directly to the audience.
What is a soliloquy?
A de-escalation approach where you stay calm and neutral so the student’s emotion doesn’t grow.
What is co-regulation?
A character who seems good but is revealed to evil, typically close to the climax.
What is a plot twist?
A Shakespearean form where the line keeps going past the end without punctuation, pushing pace/tension.
What is an enjambment?