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drama vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| actor | a person who participates in a musical, play, show, or movie |
| plot | the main event in a musical, play, show or movie |
| script | the written text of a move or play |
| screenplay | the script of a movie and instructions |
| act | to represent something or someone |
| scene | a place where something happens/happened |
| chorus | a group of organized singers |
| comedy | a humorous sketch in a musical, play, show, or movie |
| cast | the actors that take part in a musical, play, show, or movie |
| conflict | a disagreement or argument |
| dialogue | a conversation between two or more people |
| monologue | a long speech by an actor |
| aside | a remark or passage that is intended to heard by the audience but not by the actors |
| speech tag | something that labels dialogue |
| farce | a comical work that has buffoonery and crude characterization |
| melodrama | a sensational piece with exaggeration and exciting events. |
| playwright | a person who writes plays |
| flashback | a memory that comes back |
| foreshadowing | something that may warn you about the future |
| irony | something that signifies the opposite of a result |
| verbal irony | when words express something contrary to the truth or when someone says something of the opposite of how they feel |
| situational irony | when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen and what actually happens instead |
| dramatic irony | when an audience understands whats happening while the actors do not |
| playbill | a poster announcing a theatrical performance |
| poetic justice | the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for ones actions |
| setting | a place where an event takes place |
| set | to represent as happening at a specified time or place |
| prop | something used to keep an object in position |
| stage directions | an instruction in the text of a play, indications, movement, position, voice tone, or sound, effects and lighting |
| theme | frequently recurring in or accompanying the beginning and end |
| tragedy | an event causing suffering and destruction |
| tragic flaw | a trait leading a character to their downfall, they're often the hero of the piece |
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