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Playwriting Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| CHARACTER | Who the actor pretends to be. (They want things. They have goals and objectives.) |
| DIALOGUE | A conversation between two or more characters |
| CONFLICT | Obstacles that get in the way of a character achieving what he or she wants. What the characters struggle against. |
| SCENE | A single situation or unit of dialogue in a play. |
| STAGE DIRECTIONS | Messages from the playwright to the actors, technicians, and others in the theater telling them what to do and how to do it. |
| SETTING | Time and place of a scene. |
| BIOGRAPHY | A character’s life story that a playwright creates. |
| MONOLOGUE | A long speech one character gives on stage. |
| DRAMATIC ACTION | An explanation of what the characters are trying to do. |
| BEAT | A smaller section of a scene, divided where a shift in emotion or topic occurs. |
| PLOT | The structure of a play, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. |
| EXPOSITION | The beginning part of a plot that provides important background information. |
| RISING ACTION | The middle part of a plot, consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict. |
| CLIMAX | The turning point in a plot. |
| FALLING ACTION | The series of events following the climax of a plot. |
| DENOUEMENT | The final resolution of the conflict in a plot. |
| INCITING INCIDENT | The event that MUST happen in order for the plot to move forward; introduces the conflict, begins the protagonist’s journey towards solving that conflict |
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