Drama Vocabulary

a story that is acted out (through words and actions) in front of an audience.

• drama
• setting
• theme
• stage directions

the person who wrote the play.

• cast of characters
• playwright
• drama
• act

one of the major divisions of a play (like a chapter in a book); the curtain will close at the end

• scene
• line
• act
• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

located within an act; when it changes, the setting or characters may also  change; lights may go down and come back on quickly

• scene
• act
• cast of characters
• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

a part or role (actors) in a play; listed at the beginning of the play and tells who is in the play.

• drama
• playwright
• narrator
• cast of characters

a speaker that gives the audience information about what is happening in the play; they are usually off stage

• narrator
• playwright
• line
• cast of characters

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

the lines of text the characters speak in the play; the character’s names appear before the lines they speak

• cast of characters
• dialogue
• theme
• scene

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

tells the actors where to go on stage (stage right or left), how to move,  how to say their lines, tells them how to feel and think.  (Always found in parenthesis)

• script
• stage directions
• dialogue
• drama

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

the form that a play is written in; it contains the list of characters, the lines the characters say, and the stage directions.

• drama
• dialogue
• stage directions
• script

words making up the dialogue in a play

• script
• scene
• lines
• narrator