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Literary Glossary
Shakespeare
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The lines spoken by an actor that the other characters on stage supposedly can not hear; an aside usually hares the character's inner thoughts with the audience. | Aside |
| The part of the theater where the actors prepare to go onstage, where the scenery is kept, and so on. | Backstage |
| The entire company of actors performing in a play. | Cast |
| A fictional person or creature in a story or play. | Character |
| The outcome of the main conflict of a play or novel. | Climax |
| A funny play, film or TV show that has a happy ending. | Comedy |
| The struggle between characters, forces or ideas at the center of a story. | Conflict |
| The words spoken by the characters in a novel or play. | Dialogue |
| A story usually not a comedy, especially written to be performed by actors in a play or movie. | Drama |
| It is something that happens; a specific occurrence. | Event |
| Colorful wording that is not meant to be taken literally, but is used to form a colorful, sharp picure in one's mind. | Figurative Language |
| A short reading that presents and explains a novel or play. | Introduction |
| The internal or external force that makes a character do something. | Motive |
| A section of a written work that ranges from one line to several paragraphs. | Passage |
| The author of a play | Playwright |
| The chain of events in a story or play that leads to its final outcome | Plot |
| The mental position from which a character sees the events of the story unfold. | Point of View |
| An introduction to a play that comes before the first act. | Prologue |
| A passage quoted; the exact words spoken by a character; the words set-off by quotation marks | Quotation |
| The part that an actor performs in a play. | Role |
| The time-order in which story events take place. | Sequence |
| Where and when the story events take place. | Setting |
| A speech in a play in which a character tells his or her thoughts to the audience; as if talking to himself or herself. | Soliloquy |
| A person or thing that stands for or represents something else. | Symbol |
| The central meaning of a play or novel; the main idea. | Theme |
| A serious play with a sad ending. | Tragedy |
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