Terms for Drama

Question 1

Comedy

Answer 1

A play that ends happily

Question 2

Tragedy

Answer 2

A play that ends unhappily

Question 3

Melodrama

Answer 3

A play designed to arouse the intense emotion by exaggeration of fast-moving action

Question 4

Dialogue

Answer 4

Conversation between the characters in a play

Question 5

Atmosphere

Answer 5

The mood or feeling

Question 6

Pantomime

Answer 6

Actions

Question 7

Protagonist

Answer 7

The hero or leading character with whom the audience

Question 8

Antagonist

Answer 8

The character who opposes or competes with the protagonist

Question 9

Theme

Answer 9

Important central idea presented by the play

Question 10

Plot

Answer 10

The chain of events that make up the play

Question 11

Farce

Answer 11

Highly exaggerated humorous play or skit

Question 12

Motivation

Answer 12

Reason for characters belief or actions

Question 13

Stage left

Answer 13

Left of the stage form the actors point of view

Question 14

Stage right

Answer 14

Right of the stage from the actors point of view`

Question 15

Upstage

Answer 15

Area of the stage away from the footlights

Question 16

Downstage

Answer 16

Area of the stage close to the foot lights

Question 17

Act

Answer 17

Subdivision of a play; made up of scenes

Question 18

Scene

Answer 18

further subdivision of an act

Question 19

Soliloquy

Answer 19

The character is talking to her/him self

Question 20

Tragic Flaw

Answer 20

a characters flaw which keeps them from being successful

Question 21

Tragic Hero

Answer 21

Heroic, but tragedy stricken

e.g. Romeo.