Drama Terms LCS

The conversations that characters have with one another, which helps to reveal the characters, plot, and theme of a play

The message about life or human nature that is the focus of the story. The message.

A comic play with an unlikely plot and characters exaggerated for humorous effect.

When words are used to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning?

The insertion of an earlier event into a story, play, or movie?

A remark spoken by a character in a play that the other actors on stage are not suppose to hear?

A literary outcome in which bad characters are punished and good characters are rewarded?

A group of actors who speak (or sing) together with one voice and describe or comment on the main action of the play?

The written form of a play?

A drama characterized by exaggerated emotions and conflicts between characters that can have a happy ending?

A person who performs in a play, movie, or television program?

A group of two or more scenes that form a major division of a play?

The action of the play or sequence of events in the play.

Event directly contradicts what is expected?

The person who wrote the play?

Name of the script for a movie, includes descriptions of scenes and some camera directions?

A list that tells who is in the play. It may describe the characters and how they are related to one another?

When the audience or reader knows something a character does not know?

A movable article that is not part of the play’s scenery or costuming?

A struggle between opposing characters or between opposing forces?

Usually in italics, this tells the actors how to speak, how to move, and look?

A character speaks alone on the stage. The other characters are not aware of what is being said?

A character trait that leads one to his/her own downfall or destruction.

Smaller divisions within an act- usually happens in a particular time and place?

A serious play having an unhappy ending.

A technique that involves surprising, interesting, or amusing contradictions or contrasts?

In the script, the character’s name, which helps a reader keep track of who is speaking?

The place and time frame in which a story takes place?

The use of clues or hints suggesting events that will occur later in the plot?