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Vocab Test

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Definition
Stage Business   Actions or behaviors used to clarify a character or the environment  
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Dialogue   The words spoken by actors during a play  
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Mime   Stylized actions without words. Usually preformed in dark clothing and white make-up.  
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Role   A part written by the playwright  
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Comedy   A funny play  
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Comedy example   Whose Line is it Anyway?  
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Melodrama   A play which the plot is highly suspenseful  
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Melodrama example   The Book of Three  
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Farce   An exaggerated comedy based on humorous and physical jokes  
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Farce example   Talledaga Nights  
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Blocking   Pattern actors follow in moving around on stage  
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Focus   Point of concentration for actors  
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Prop   An item that is small enough to be carried around on stage by an actor  
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Monologue   When one actor speaks for and extended time  
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Pantomime   A play where props are not present but the actions suggest that they are  
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Character   An actor creates this based on a role they have been given to preform  
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Set   The scenery and furniture used during a play  
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Backstage   The area behind the stage. The sides of backstage are called wings  
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Tragedy   A play involving suffering and sometimes death  
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Tragedy example   Romeo and Juliet  
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Three Quarter Turn   When the actor faces the audience on an angle so that they may be more clearly seen  
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Conflict   -  
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Stage Direction   -  
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Breaking the Fourth Wall   -  
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Serio-Comic   A story that is both happy and sad at the same time  
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Serio-Comic example   Uptown Girls, Pursuit of Happyness  
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