| Question | Answer |
| A person who performs in a play, movie, or television program? | Actor |
| The action of a play. | Plot |
| The written form of a play? | Script |
| The script for a movie, includes descriptions of scenes and some camera directions. | Screenplay |
| A group of two or more scenes that form a major division of a play? | Act |
| Smaller divisions within an act- usually happens in a particular time and place. | Scene |
| A group of actors who speak together with one voice and describe or comment on the main action of the play. | Chorus |
| A list that tells who is in the play. It may describe the characters and how they are related to one another. | Cast |
| A play, movie, or tv program that is funny and typically has a happy ending. | Comedy |
| A struggle between opposing characters or between opposing forces. | Conflict |
| The conversations that characters have with one another, which helps to reveal the characters, plot, and theme of a play. | Dialogue |
| A character speaks alone on the stage. The other characters are not aware of what is being said. | Monologue |
| A remark spoken by a character in a play that the other actors on stage are not suppose to hear. | Aside |
| In the script, the character’s name, which helps a reader keep track of who is speaking. | Speech tag |
| A comic play with an unlikely plot and characters exaggerated for humorous effect. Example: Home Alone | Farce |
| A drama characterized by exaggerated emotions and conflicts between characters that can have a happy ending. | Melodrama |
| The person who wrote the play. | Playwright |
| The insertion of an earlier event into a story, play, or movie. | Flashback |
| The use of clues or hints suggesting events that will occur later in the plot. | Foreshadowing |
| A technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions or contrasts. | Irony |
| When words are used to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning. | Verbal irony |
| Event directly contradicts what is expected. | Situational irony |
| When the audience or reader knows something a character does not know. | Dramatic irony |
| A poster announcing a theatrical performance or program. | Playbill |
| A literary outcome in which bad characters are punished and good characters are rewarded. | Poetic Justice |
| The place and time frame in which a story takes place. | Setting |
| The scenery constructed for a play. | Set |
| A moveable article that is not part of the play’s scenery or costuming. | Prop |
| Usually in italics, this tells the actors how to speak, how to move, and look. | Stage directions |
| The message about life or human nature that is the focus of the story. The message. | Theme |
| A serious play having an unhappy ending. | Tragedy |
| A character trait that leads one to his/her own downfall or destruction. | Tragic flaw |
