Drama Vocabulary

Match the following

• setting

• The text of the play; written words for the actors to read or speak

• drama

• A story written to be performed by actors for an audience

• dialogue

• The words/lines said by the characters

• script

• All the characters (actors) in a play

• cast

• The time and place in the play

Tags

4.9C

Match the following

• narrator

• People playing character roles in a drama

• stage directions

• Written instructions in a play that tell an actor what to do or gives information about the character's thoughts or the setting

• scene

• The person who tells what happens during the play

• act

• The action that takes place in a single setting; shows a change in the setting

• actors

• A chapter in a play that contains more than one scene

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4.9C

Match the following

• playwright

• A person who writes plays

• character tag

• The problem in the story

• props

• The objects used in a play

• conflict

• In a play, the character's name in capital letters that indicates that character's speaking part

Tags

4.9C