Playwriting Vocab

A major division in of a play is called...

• Arc
• Section
• Act
• Scene

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CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Figures who undertake the action of a plot.  There are major, minor, dynamic, static, and other types of...

• director
• setting
• symbol
• characters

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Words spoken to the audience by a character in a drama that are not supposed to be heard by the other characters on stage is called:

• cold reading
• foreshadowing
• aside
• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

This is the point at which the conflict explodes; it is the moment of maximum tension.

• explosition
• climax
• resolution
• cue

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Spoken interchange between two or more characters.  

• action
• soliloquy
• dialogue
• monologue

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

A play written in prose or verse that tells a story through dialogue and actions performed by actors impersonating characters of a story.

• drama
• act
• scene
• dramaturg

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

A scene that occurred before the present time in a story that provides information about what is currently happening in the play is called...

• foreshadowing
• flashback
• improvisation
• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Hints, delivered through the characters' lines and/or actions, of events to come that help create an air of suspense in the play.

• flashback
• foreshadowing
• monologue
• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A speech or portion of a play in which only one character speaks; these are a chance to hear a character's uninterrupted thoughts.  

• dialogue
• monologue
• foreshadowing
• flashback

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The feeling a reader gets from the work of literature of a story's atmosphere is called the...

• mood
• tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4