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Drama Terms
Drama
Question | Answer |
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Drama | Is meant to be PERFORMED for an audience |
Dialogue | What actors/character so unlike short stories the audience cannot see into the minds of the character |
Gestures | Movement of body part become important to help the audience see how a character feels |
Stage directions | Tell the actor ; they are written in italics and are in brackets |
Comedy | A drama with a happy ending |
Tragedy | A drama with a tragic or unhappy ending |
Tragic flow | The qualify beliefs personality trait that leads to a leads a characters death |
1 act play | A drama with few characters few scenes usually lasts less than an hour. |
Full length play | many character many scenes many conflicts |
Monologue | a long speech by character on stage other character an hour of monologue |
Aside | a brief comment made by a character to another character or the audience not heard by others |
Soliloquy | A long speech made by a character in which his/her thoughts and feeling are revealed usually not meant to be heard by other character but it is meant to be heard by the audience |