Drama STAAR Vocabulary

A play that is meant to be performed on a stage for an audience.

• Drama

• Playwright

• Stage Directions

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

Give directions to the actors on how to act on stage. They are usually placed in parentheses and/or in italics.

• Drama

• Playwright

• Stage Directions

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

A long speech delivered by a character who is alone onstage (typically reveals the private thoughts of a character).

• Narrator

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquies

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.10

The words that are spoken by the actors.

• Narrator

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquies

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.7.7

A story written to be performed by actors; a play

• drama

• line

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

a situation in which the outcome is contrary to what was expected

• allegory

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• vociferous irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

A type of drama where the main character has a downfall, and will have an unhappy ending where many people could possible die. 

• comedy

• science-fiction

• melodrama 

• tragedy 

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.10

The words that actors are supposed to say or read aloud when they are acting out a drama.

• dialogue

• opinions

• plot

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

Instructions given to the actors so they know how to act and the tone of voice to use. These are used in dramas.

• genre

• non fiction

• resolution

• stage directions

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.10

A division of an act within a play

• narrator

• props

• ad lib

• scene

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.4