Playwriting Vocab
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| CHARACTER | Who the actor pretends to be. (They want things. They have goals and objectives.)
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| DIALOGUE | A conversation between two or more characters
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| CONFLICT | Obstacles that get in the way of a character achieving what he or she wants. What the characters struggle against.
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| SCENE | A single situation or unit of dialogue in a play.
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| STAGE DIRECTIONS | Messages from the playwright to the actors, technicians, and others in the theater telling them what to do and how to do it.
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| SETTING | Time and place of a scene.
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| BIOGRAPHY | A character’s life story that a playwright creates.
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| MONOLOGUE | A long speech one character gives on stage.
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| DRAMATIC ACTION | An explanation of what the characters are trying to do.
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| BEAT | A smaller section of a scene, divided where a shift in emotion or topic occurs.
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| PLOT | The structure of a play, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement.
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| EXPOSITION | The beginning part of a plot that provides important background information.
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| RISING ACTION | The middle part of a plot, consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict.
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| CLIMAX | The turning point in a plot.
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| FALLING ACTION | The series of events following the climax of a plot.
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| DENOUEMENT | The final resolution of the conflict in a plot.
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| INCITING INCIDENT | The event that MUST happen in order for the plot to move forward; introduces the conflict, begins the protagonist’s journey towards solving that conflict
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