Drama Terms #1
A story meant to be performed to an audience
Drama
A person, place, or thing
Noun
The author of a drama
Playwright
Victorian author known for his holiday themed novella
Charles Dickens
A character who recounts the events of a novel
Narrator
Written text of a drama
Script
Placement words
Prepositions
A group of actors performing a play
Cast
A science fiction author known for twists and turns in his teleplays
Rod Serling
A playwright's instructions on how to perform a drama
Stage Directions
A conversation among two or more characters
Dialogue
Words like but, nor, so, for, yet, though
Conjunctions
the construction on stage that suggest
the time and the place of the action
Set
An author whose characters face a situationally ironic fate
O. Henry
When the opposite of what is expected to happen occurs
Irony
A major section of a play
Acts
Interjections
Scenes
The era in which Charles Dickens wrote his plays
Victorian Era
Spoken dialogue by a character in a play
Lines
Scripts for films
Screenplay
Words like he, she, they...
Pronouns
Scripts written for television
Teleplays
When a loud boom sounds over Maple Street, it starts the ___________________ part of the plot.
Inciting Incident
Written to be performed as radio broadcasts
Radioplay