Plays: More Essential Vocabulary

The sections plays are divided into

• acts

• stage directions

• setting

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The place and time of the act of a play.

• acts

• stage direction

• setting

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

Instructions in a play to indicate movement, actions, and emotions

• conflict

• stage direction

• dramatic irony

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A struggle between characters or opposing forces

• conflict

• antagonist

• dramatic irony

• gestures

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

Hints of what will happen later in the play

• foreshadowing

• setting

• dialogue

• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The audience is aware of something when the characters are not

• exposition (prologue)

• props

• looping

• dramatic irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

The perspective through which the story is told

• setting

• point of view

• allusion

• dramatic irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The main message of the story

• stage direction

• soliloquy

• theme

• aside

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The beginning of a story when the characters and situation are introduced

• setting

• pun

• theme

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

A character is alone and speaks so that the audience knows what the character is thinking

• soliloquy (monologue)

• foreshadowing

• scene

• acts

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5