Drama Vocabulary

True or false?

Dialogue refers to the parts that are spoken out loud.

• True

• False

Scenes in a play are like ___ in a book.

• Pages

• Chapters

• Words

• Titles

A person who performs a role in a play is called an

• stage direction

• actor

• performance

• playwright

The part of the play script that tells actors how to move or speak their lines is called the...

• stage directions

• scene

• setting

• stage

What are props?

• Actors in play

• The action in a play

• Objects used by actors in a play

• Directions that tell the actors what to do or how to speak

A ____ is a story or play that is acted out using characters in situations that imitate real life.

• Biography

• Drama

• Director

• Conflict

The cast of characters is....

• a play intended to make an audience laugh

• the signal given to people working in or on a play

• lines spoken between characters in a play

• the people who perform in a play

The written text of a play is called a ....

• set

• rehearsal

• script

• scene

A person who writes plays is

• Poet
• Author
• Illustrator
• Playwright

Plays are divided into large sections called

• scenes

• acts

• stage directions

• asides