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ELA- Terms
Play Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Act | a major division in the action of a play 1 2 & 3 act plays are most common today. A change in an Act is often represented on stage by curtains closing its going out or on intermission. |
| Aside | Words spoken to the Audience by a character in a drama that are not supposed to be heard by the other characters on stage; it is you still at the audience audience know that a character is thinking |
| Character | A figure who undertakes the action of the plot. Characters must be whole image is rather than stick figures with the attributes feeling and expectations of real. |
| Protagonist | Main character the hero. This character is usually the most interesting and sympathetic and is involved in the conflict driving the plot. |
| Antogonist | A character or a force such as nature or Society in conflict with the protagonist. |
| Climax | The point at which the conflict explodes the climax is a moment of Maximum tension I wish a continuation of the conflict it's impossible and shows some sort of change. |
| Conflict | A struggle between opposing forces |
| Dialogue | spoken interchange or conversation between two or more characters, or, Loosely defined, the speech of a single character. Dialogue is a language that reveals character and furthers a plot. Dialogue is sometimes contrasted with action |
| Drama | Dialogue in actions performed by actors, people name the characters of the story. Sometimes contrasting with comedies, dramas can include comedic elements but usually have a more serious conflict and do not always end happy. |
| Flashback | A scene that occurred before the present time in the story, and it provides information about what is currently happening in the play. |
| Foreshadowing | Hints, delivered through the characters lines and/or actions. |
| Monologue | A speech or portion of a play in which only one character speaks, oftentimes monologue are used in auditions. |
| Mood | The feeling the reader gets from literature. |
| Plot | What happens, the sequence of events that take place in a story. |
| Subplot | A second plot connected to but also clearly subordinated to main plot. |
| Double Plot | A dramatic structure in which two related plots function simultaneously. |
| Resolution | The conclusion or ending of a play. |
| Scene | Division of an act of a play. Each act is broken up into scenes. They are numbered. |
| Setting | The particular time and place in which the play takes place. |
| Soliloquy | The speech delivered by one character while they are alone on the stage. |
| Tone | The playwriters attitude toward the characters and situations in the script |
| Stage Directions | Information included in the script bu the playwright which provides physical description of characters, physiological description of characters, characters action on stage, descriptions of the settings |
| Theme | The plays central idea. Its underlined meaning. Its main message. |
| Dynamic character | One who changes in some significant way during the course of the play. |
| Static character | One who does not change in any significant way during the course of a play |
| Flat character | One who shows only 1 or 2 traits or features |
| Round character | One who is a well developed a character seen from all sides, that is to say, in the round. |
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