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What is dialogue?

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Spoken exchange between characters, usually between two or more speakers.

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What is plot?

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The sequence of events or actions in a story, drama, or poem.

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What are stage directions?

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Words in a dramatic script that define an actor's actions, movements, and attitudes.

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What is drama?

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A performance in which actors impersonate the actions and speech of fictional or historical characters for the entertainment of an audience.

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What is setting?

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Where and when the events in a story, poem, or drama take place.

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What is prose?

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Written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

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What is a scene?

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A division of an act in a play or drama, representing a specific location and time.

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What is a stanza?

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A grouped set of lines in a poem, often separated by a space from other stanzas.

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What is theme?

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The central idea or message in a work of literature.

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What is a character?

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A person, animal, or figure represented in a literary work.