Character Creation & Playwriting

Spoken interchange between two or more characters.  

• action
• soliloquy
• dialogue
• monologue

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

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

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

• scene
• plot
• act
• conflict

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.

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

The author of a play.

• Playwriter

• Scripter

• Playwright

• Playwrite

Where do ideas come from?

• Observation

• Experience

• History

• All of these

The obstacles that get in the way of a character achieving what he or she wants creates...

• Conflict

• Drama

• Exposition

• Climax

Figures who undertake the action of a plot.  There are major, minor, dynamic, static, and other types of...

• director
• setting
• symbol
• characters