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LCS Drama Vocab

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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

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