Drama Vocabulary

A drama in which the scripts are used for films. They include camera angles, and can allow for more scene changes than a stage play

• radio plays

• screenplays

• scenes

• teleplays

Words spoken by an actors; written by the playwright

• monologue

• drama

• aside

• dialogue

A drama that is meant to be preformed as a radio broadcast.

• teleplays

• props

• screenplays

• radio plays

Long, uninterrupted speech spoken by one character to another

• soliloquy

• comedy

• dialogue

• monologue

Playwrights directions about how the play should be performed

• stage directions

• tragedies

• screenplays

• teleplays

Drama in which the script is written for television

• teleplays

• scenes

• radio play

• screenplays

Story that is preformed for an audience. brings life to the words of an author

• drama

• tragedy only

• aside

• props

Units of action in a drama. Includes several scenes.

• aside

• acts

• scenes

• props

Author of a drama

• aside

• dialogue

• playwright

• props

Drama that features ordinary people in funny situations. To entertain

• Tragedy

• Comedy

• Aside

• Acts