Drama Vocabulary Review

What can usually be found in italics, brackets, or parenthesis and tells the actors what to do, or how to do it?

• stage directions

• director's cues

• narrator's line

• scenery

What is the term meaning a play that was created to make people laugh?

• play

• satyr

• tragedy

• comedy

What is the term meaning a play that was created to make people cry?

• satyr

• tragedy

• comedy

• play

Who is the person who does not interact with other characters in the play, but still has lines?

• director

• protagonist

• antagonist

• narrator

What is the specific term for someone who writes a play?

• writer

• author

• actor

• playwright

What is the main division of a play called? (similar to a chapter in a book)

• drama

• play

• act

• scene

The written form of a play is a...

• plot

• stage directions

• book

• script

A long speech by a character who is revealing personal thoughts or feelings while alone on stage

• Verse

• Prose

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Aside

A contradictory situation when the audience knows something that the character does not know

• Dramatic Foil

• Dramatic Irony

• Tragic Flaw

• Horror Movie Cliche

• Oxymoron

Notes included in a drama that describe how the work is to be performed, typically printed in italics

• Prologue

• Side Show

• Dramatic Performance

• Director's Cues

• Stage Directions