Drama Vocabulary
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Actor | show 🗑
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Plot | show 🗑
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show | the written form of a play
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show | the script for a movie including descriptions of scenes and some camera directions
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show | a group of two or more scenes that form a major division of a play
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Scene | show 🗑
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show | a group of actors who speak together with one voice and describe or comment on the main action of the play
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Cast | show 🗑
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Comedy | show 🗑
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show | a struggle between opposing characters or between opposing forces
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Dialogue | show 🗑
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show | a character speaks when alone on the stage, apart from the other characters and the other characters are unaware of what is being said
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show | a remark spoken by a character in a play that the other actors on stage are not supposed to hear
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show | the insertion of an earlier event into a story, play or movie
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show | a comic play with an unlikely plot and characters exaggerated for humorous effects
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Melodrama | show 🗑
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Playwright | show 🗑
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Foreshadowing | show 🗑
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show | a technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions or contrasts
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show | occurs when words are used to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning
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Situational Irony | show 🗑
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Dramatic Irony | show 🗑
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Playbill | show 🗑
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Poetic Justice | show 🗑
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Setting | show 🗑
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Set | show 🗑
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show | a moveable article that is not part of the play's scenery or costuming
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show | usually in italics, this tells the actors how to speak their lines, how to move, act, and look, also tells the director how to stage the play
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show | a message about life or human nature that is the focus of the story
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show | a serious play having an unhappy ending
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Tragic Flaw | show 🗑
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Speech Tag | show 🗑
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