Drama Flashcards
(22 cards)
Drama
Performed by actors for an audience, told through characters,words,actions
Cast
Performers
Act
Main divisions
Scene
Smaller division
Setting
Place and time
Dialogue
Lines spoken
Stage directions
Directions telling characters how to speak or act;sound,actions,props,lights
Plot
Series of events where the characters try to solve a problem or attain a goal;acts and scenes,show a change in the setting,characters,plot
exposition
Introduces the characters,setting, and conflict
Rising action
Events,lead to the climax
Climax
Turning point, conflict at its highest
Falling action
Leads to the resolution
Resolution
How the conflict is or isn’t resolved
Dialogue
Lines spoken between two or more people; what they say,how they say it, how other characters respond
Figures of speech
Idiom, a common phrase that has a different meaning of its individual words
Adage ,old saying that expresses an accepted truth about life
Point of view
Character’s perspective, explore the characters’ thoughts and feelings
Monologue - mon=one
speech by one actor
Soliloquy
Characters reveal there thoughts and feelings
Aside
Comment made to the audience, Not Heard by the other characters
Dramatic irony
Audience knows one or more of the characters
Verbal irony
Characters says the opposite of what he or she really means; sarcasm or humor
Theme
Central message,alluded to in the title and at the beginning of f play