Drama Vocab 7th

An example of drama is...

• The Fly

• Our beautiful town is gone

• Thirteen and a half

• Did you hear who is asking her to the dance?

What do stage directions show the reader of a drama?

• How to act

• what the characters actions are.

• The way to face the stage

• a map of the theatre

The way to identify the stage directions is to...

• Look for the words in bold

• Pay attention to what the character is saying

• the words inside parenthesis and italicized

• stage directions don't matter because you don't read them outloud.

a playwright is...

• the author of an essay or treatise

• the author of a fiction novel

• someone who does things correctly

• someone who writes a play or drama

The author of a drama is called a...

• hack

• defendant

• playwright

• Bob

What are character tags?

• graffiti of spongebob characters on the bathroom wall

• a game of superhero tag

• the words in bold that tell the reader who is speaking

• words that describe a characters personality

What is a scene

• a sequence of continuous action in a play

• where the drama takes place

• when someone causes a big commotion

• the picture the actors stand in front of

What is an act in a drama?

• the way the actors move

• a major division of a theatre work

• the actors

• the part where characters are speaking.

the spoken part of a drama is called the

• dialogue

• act

• scene

• character

Dialogue is...

• two trees laying in the forest

• the part that shows the actions of the actors

• what the characters of a drama are saying

• the main idea for the drama