Playwriting Vocab

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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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

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

• explosition
• climax
• resolution
• cue

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Spoken interchange between two or more characters.  

• action
• soliloquy
• dialogue
• monologue

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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.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The sequence of events that takes place in a story is called this.  It typically follows the following pattern:  exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution.

• obstacle
• objective
• motivation
• plot

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This is a smaller piece of a play or the physical surrounding or locale where the play is set.

• scene
• plot
• act
• conflict

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This is the particular time and place where the play is set.  It defines the specific social, historical, economic and political world of the play.

• scene
• setting
• sides
• environment.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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

This is a speech delivered by one character while alone on the stage.

• monologue
• dialogue
• soliloquy

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CCSS.RL.8.3

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This is information included in the script by the playwright which provides: physical description of characters; psychological descriptions of characters; actions on stages; descriptions of setting to help build set.

• symbol
• stage directions
• subtext
• theme

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