Drama Vocabulary

A drama, or a play is a passage that tells a story using _______________ characters say to each other.

• songs
• lines
• books
• jokes

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

A list of characters that appear in the play or drama is called a ______________________. They are also written at the beginning of the play.

• group
• crowd
• cast
• people

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Gives the audience information about the actions, character thoughts, and feelings

• script

• stage directions

• narrator

• scenes/acts

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

The time & place the action happens; first stage direction in a scene

• Cast of characters

• The setting

• lines

• props

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What is the meaning of dialogue?

• Conversations between two or more characters
• The words in parentheses
• A struggle that takes place in a story
• The gestures an actor uses in a drama

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

objects needed to perform the play onstage

• Flats
• Sets
• Props
• Costumes

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

A person who writes plays is

• Poet
• Author
• Illustrator
• Playwright

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

What is drama?

• A type of nonfiction that present information.
• a form of poem to entertain.

• A story that is acted out in front of an audience; play

• A type of nonfiction that tells the life of a person.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

The directions, or words, in parenthesis that show the actions or feelings that the characters are supposed to show.  These directions are called______.

• Plot directions
• Stage directions
• Actor directions
• Audience directions

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What do we call the part that an actor plays in a drama?

• Role
• Prop
• Dialogue
• Playwright

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D