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Drama terms a
Question | Answer |
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Drama | is meant to be PREFORMED for an audience. |
Dialogue | what the characters say, what action. |
Gesture | movements of body part. |
stage directions | tell the actors what to do, were to stand, what to hold. |
comedy | a drama with a happy ending |
tragedy | a drama with a tragedy or a unhappy ending. |
tragic flaw | the quality, belief, personality trait that leads to a characters death or down fall. |
1 act play | a drama with few scene usually less then a hours. |
full length play | many characters, many scenes many conflicts usually last 2 hours or more. |
monologue | long speech by a character on stage other characters can be her the monologue |
aside | a brief comment made by a to another character or the audience. |
soliloquy | a long speech made by a character in which his/her thought and feeling a reveled usually not meant to be heard by other characters. |