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Drama
Drama Vocabulary Terms
Term | Definition |
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Play | Literature that is meant to be performed. |
Dialogue | The exchange of spoken words between characters. |
Stage Directions | All the information besides dialogue that a playwright puts in a script, including setting notes, entrances and exits, and descriptions of characters' actions. |
Playwright | The author of a play. |
Acts | the units of action in a drama. |
Reveal | To make (previously unknown or secret information) known to others. |
Conflict | a problem or struggle that can be internal or external. |
Idea | The aim or purpose. |
Indicate | To point out; show. |
Plot | The main events of a play or story that is made up of the setting, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. |
Resolve | To settle or find a solution to a problem. |
Scene | A sequence of continuous action in an act of a play. |
Setting | The place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place. |
Conclude | To arrive at a decision based on the facts at hand. |
Inference | An educated, or intelligent, guess. It's a decision you reach after examining the evidence. |
Prediction | A type of inference. You make an educated guess about something that will happen in the future. |