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11th grade vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Interpretation | the action of explaining the meaning of something |
| Act | take action; do something. |
| Script | handwriting as distinct from print; written characters. |
| Political drama | A political drama can describe a play, film or TV program that has a political component, whether reflecting the author's political opinion, or describing a politician or series of political events. |
| Abridge(ment) | An abridgement (or abridgment) is a condensing or reduction of a book or other creative work into a shorter form while maintaining the unity of the source. |
| Scene | the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred. |
| Angle | a member of a Germanic people, originally inhabitants of what is now Schleswig-Holstein, who migrated to England in the 5th century AD. The Angles founded kingdoms in Mercia, Northumbria, and East Anglia and gave their name to England and the English. |
| Theater of the absurd | drama using the abandonment of conventional dramatic form to portray the futility of human struggle in a senseless world. Major exponents include Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, and Harold Pinter. |
| Drama | a play for theater, radio, or television. |
| Line | a long, narrow mark or band. |
| Perspective | the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point. |
| Stage directions | an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting. |
| Narrative | a spoken or written account of connected events; a story. |
| Chapter | a main division of a book, typically with a number or title. |
| staging | an instance or method of presenting a play or other dramatic performance. |
| Fourth wall | the space that separates a performer or performance from an audience |
| Film | a thin flexible strip of plastic or other material coated with light-sensitive emulsion for exposure in a camera, used to produce photographs or motion pictures. |
| Dialogue | conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. |
| Dues ex machine | an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel. |
| Minimalism | a trend in sculpture and painting that arose in the 1950s and used simple, typically massive, forms. |
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