Drama Terms Formative General

Long sections of a play, usually designed to separate

the play into its main parts

• Props

• Playwright

• Script

• Act

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A character may turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can't hear.

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Props

• Monologue

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A conversation between two or more characters.

• Monologue

• Dialogue

• Aside

• Soliloquy

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A long speech that reveals a character’s true thoughts or feelings, unheard by other characters, usually while alone on stage.

• Aside

• Dialogue

• Soliloquy

• Character foil

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Shorter sections of a play, usually occurs in one location at a specific time. Multiple make up an act.

• Scene

• Acts

• Script

• Stage Directions

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Found in brackets [ ] or

parenthesis ( )

Describe scenery, action, and

how characters speak

• Script

• Drama

• Stage Directions

• Props

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The Prologue is a section at the end of a play or literary work that provides background information and sets the tone.

• True

• False

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Iambic Pentameter is a metrical pattern in poetry consisting of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables per line.

• True

• False

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A Shakespearean Sonnet is a 12-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and meter, often used by William Shakespeare.

• True

• False

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Means to "To Do" or "To Act"

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