Drama Terms

is meant to be performed

• play

• drama

• script

• stage directions

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

actors tell the story through this, what they say to one another

• dialogue

• script

• drama

• monologue

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3B

an actor turns and speaks directly to the audience

• drama

• aside

• soliloquy

• dramatic irony

like an inner conversation that the audience overhears

• soliloquy

• aside

• dramatic irony

• protagonist

a long speech in which one character speaks at length to another character, there is no back and forth

• dialogue

• monologue

• aside

• soliloquy

occurs when there is a difference between what one character says and thinks and what the audience knows is true

• irony

• dramatic irony

• drama

• ironic drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.6

the main character

• protagonist

• antagonist

• actor

• character

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

character who opposes the protagonist

• protagonist

• antagonist

• actor

• character

tells actors exactly what to do and how to do it

• script

• drama

• stage design

• stage directions

the way the setting for the play looks like on stage.

• script

• drama

• stage design

• stage directions