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Lit Test 3
drama unit
Term | Definition |
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playwright | author of a play |
drama | story written to be preformed by actors |
theater | a place where plays are preformed |
script | a written play including diologe, stage directions, and senery |
act | units of action in a drama |
scenes | a section of uniteruppted action |
actors | people who preform a play |
cast | set of actors |
dialogue | a conversation between 2 character |
Dramatic Speech | advances action (most common type of speech) |
monologue | long speech by character reveals private thought and feeling |
props | small moveable objects actors use to make there actions realistic |
set/senery | A term uses for that construction on stage that suggests that time and place |
summery | a brif statement that presents only the main ideas |
stage directions | sets of info that descridbe the senery and how charaters sound move and speak |
radio plays | plays that are preformed on the radio |
screenplays | scripes written for film with different camera angles |
teleplays | scripts written for television |
tradegy | play that often results castasttophe for the main character |
comedy | a work that is light and funny that ends happily |
fluster | nevous |
sluggishly | lacking energy |
persistently | firmly and steadly |
defeat | boldly resisting |
metamorphosis | change in form |
scapegoat | a person who gets blamed for the chrime of others |
imploered | begged |
morose | gloomy, ill-temper |
destitute | used as people living in proverty |
void | emptiness |
conveyed | made known |
benevolence | kindliness |
snuff | extinguishes put out |
suitors | men who seek to marry a women |
astonish | amaze |
compulsion | irresisible force |
severe | harsh |
meage | small amount |
audible | loud enough to be heard |
humbug | nonsense |
farthing | small britsh coin |