Drama STAAR Vocabulary

Time and place of a text.

• Script

• Setting

• Narrator

• Stage Directions

The written text of a drama.

• Scene

• Narrator

• Drama

• Script

The author of a drama text.

• Character tags

• Playwright

• Props

• Dialogue

Located before the lines of dialogue in a drama that tells the actors/ actresses who is talking and at what time.

• Dialogue

• Character Tags

• Props

• Script

A text that is meant to be preformed in front of an audience.

• Figurative Language

• Playwright

• Idiom

• Drama

The people who watch a drama being preformed.

• Stage Directions

• Audience

• Narrator

• Character List

An outside character that gives you details about the plot of the drama.

• Scene

• Audience

• Playwright

• Narrator

A collection of scenes that forms a major segment of a play

• Drama

• Act

• Scene

• Stage directions

What a character is saying

• Stage directions

• Drama

• Dialogue

• Act

A play written to be performed. The story is divided into acts and scenes, and told with stage directions and dialogue.

• Scene

• Act

• Dialogue

• Drama