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drama terms
definition of drama terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| act | a major division in the action of the play |
| aside | words spoken to the audience by a character that is not supposed to be heard by the other characters on the stage |
| character | a figure who undertakes the action of the plot. |
| protagonist | main character, the hero. they are usually the most interesting and relate-able character of the play |
| antagonist | a character or force,like nature or society, that is in conflict with the protagonist. |
| dynamic character | one who changes in some significant way during the play |
| static character | one who does not change at all during the play |
| flat character | one who shows one or two traits. |
| round character | one who is a well developed character |
| climax | the point at which the conflict explodes |
| conflict | all plays focus on the conflict which is a struggle between two opposing forces and the protagonist and the antagonist. |
| dialouge | spoken interchange between two or more characters. |
| drama | a play written in prose and verse that tells a story |
| flashback | a scene that occurs before the present time of the story. |
| foreshadowing | hints, delivered through the characters lines and/or actions of events that have yet to come that help create suspense in the play. |
| monolouge | a speech or portion of a play where only one character is talking. |
| mood | feeling the readers get from a work of literature of a story's atmosphere. |
| plot | what happens, the sequence of events that takes place in the story. |
| resolution | the conclusion or ending of a play |
| setting | the particular time and place. |
| soliloquy | the speech delivered like by one character while she/he is alone on the stage. |
| tone | the playwrights attitude towards the characters and situations in the script. |
| stage directions | information included in the script by the playwright which provides 1: physical descriptions of the characters 2:psychological descriptions of the character 3:characters actions on stage 4:descriptions of the setting whichcan help one buld the set. |
| theme | the plays central idea/what the plays add up to, its underlying meaning. |
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