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Lit Test 3
drama unit
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |