Dramatic Film

drama

• an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.

• the place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening

• a play for theater, radio, or television

• a movie, play, or broadcast program intended to make an audience laugh.

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Tragedy

• a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program

• a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play

• an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play

• an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.

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Comedy

• movie, play, or broadcast program intended to make an audience laugh.

• the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text

• prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding.

• conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie.

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Plot

• a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one

• a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play

• the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

• the actors taking part in a play, film, or other production

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Setting

• a play for theater, radio, or television

• the place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening

• a person who writes plays

• a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program

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Character

• a person in a novel, play, or movie

• an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature

• an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting.

• perform a fictional role in a play, movie, or television production.

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Theme

• the actors taking part in a play, film, or other production

• a play for theater, radio, or television

• a person in a novel, play, or movie

• an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature

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Act

• the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred.

• the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

• perform a fictional role in a play, movie, or television production.

• a play for theater, radio, or television

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Scene

• a movie, play, or broadcast program intended to make an audience laugh.

• a play for theater, radio, or television

• the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

• the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred.

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Conflict

• a person who writes plays

• the place and time at which a play, novel, or film is represented as happening

• a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one

• prevent (something considered wrong or undesirable) from succeeding.

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