Figures who undertake the action of a plot.  There are major, minor, dynamic, static, and other types of...

Words spoken to the audience by a character in a drama that are not supposed to be heard by the other characters on stage is called:

This is the point at which the conflict explodes; it is the moment of maximum tension.

Spoken interchange between two or more characters.  

A play written in prose or verse that tells a story through dialogue and actions performed by actors impersonating characters of a story.

A scene that occurred before the present time in a story that provides information about what is currently happening in the play is called...

Hints, delivered through the characters' lines and/or actions, of events to come that help create an air of suspense in the play.

A speech or portion of a play in which only one character speaks; these are a chance to hear a character's uninterrupted thoughts.  

The feeling a reader gets from the work of literature of a story's atmosphere is called the...

The sequence of events that takes place in a story is called this.  It typically follows the following pattern:  exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, conclusion/resolution.

This is a smaller piece of a play or the physical surrounding or locale where the play is set.

This is the particular time and place where the play is set.  It defines the specific social, historical, economic and political world of the play.

This is a speech delivered by one character while alone on the stage.

This is the playwright's attitude toward the characters and situations in the script.

This is information included in the script by the playwright which provides: physical description of characters; psychological descriptions of characters; actions on stages; descriptions of setting to help build set.

This is the play's central idea or its underlying message.