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Drama terms
....drama terms
Term | Definition |
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Playwright | a person who writes plays |
Flashback | looking into the past |
Foreshadowing | looking into the future |
Irony | saying something and meaning the opisite |
verbal irony | the opposite of what they really feel or mean |
sitiational irony | expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead. |
dramatic irony | Dramatic irony is defined as when an audience watching a play understands what's going on in a situation while the characters are unaware of what is happening. |
playbill | a poster announcing a theatrical performance. |
poetic justice | the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. |
setting | a place where people act |
set | the fact of experiencing a fitting or deserved retribution for one's actions. |
prop | stuff that actors use while they act |
stage directions | people tellng actors what to do |
theme | what the play is based on |
tragedy | when something bad happens on stage |
tragic flaw | when a actor does something wrong |
actor | a person who acts on stage |
plot | the main events of a play |
script | the things actors say on stage |
screenplay | the script of a movie, including acting instructions and scene directions. |
act | doing something |
scene | the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred. |
chorus | people who sing |