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Drama terms
....drama terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Playwright | a person who writes plays |
| Flashback | looking into the past |
| Foreshadowing | looking into the future |
| Irony | saying something and meaning the opisite |
| verbal irony | the opposite of what they really feel or mean |
| sitiational irony | expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. |
| dramatic irony | Dramatic irony is defined as when an audience watching a play understands what's going on in a situation while the characters are unaware of what is happening. |
| playbill | a poster announcing a theatrical performance. |
| poetic justice | the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. |
| setting | a place where people act |
| set | the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. |
| prop | stuff that actors use while they act |
| stage directions | people tellng actors what to do |
| theme | what the play is based on |
| tragedy | when something bad happens on stage |
| tragic flaw | when a actor does something wrong |
| actor | a person who acts on stage |
| plot | the main events of a play |
| script | the things actors say on stage |
| screenplay | the script of a movie, including acting instructions and scene directions. |
| act | doing something |
| scene | the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred. |
| chorus | people who sing |