Drama Terms To Know

a division within a play, much like chapters of a novel

• act

• drama

• comedy

• monologue

lines that are spoken by a character directly to the audience

• soliloquy

• dialogue

• aside

• stage directions

a list of characters presented before the action begins

• scene

• iambic pentameter

• tragedy

• cast of characters

a humorous work of drama

• comedy

• act

• scene

• dramatic irony

conversation between two or more characters

• iambic pentameter

• comedy

• dialogue

• tragedy

a work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience

• soliloquy

• cast of characters

• dramatic irony

• drama

when the audience or reader knows something that the characters in the story do not know

• scene

• dramatic irony

• soliloquy

• monologue

a line of poetry that contains 5 iambs of two syllables each

• iambic pentameter

• aside

• stage directions

• act

a long speech spoken by a character to himself, another character, or to the audience

• aside

• iambic pentameter

• soliloquy

• monologue

a division of an act into smaller parts

• tragedy

• scene

• comedy

• act