Drama Flashcards
Drama
Performed by actors for an audience. It’s told through the characters words and actions.
Cast
Performs
Act
Main divisions
Scene
Smaller divisions
Setting
Place and time mood or the atmosphere
Dialogue
Lines spoken
Stage directions
Directions telling characters how to speak or act,how sound,lighting, and props are used
Plot
Series of events where the characters try to solve a problem or attain a goal acts and scenes shows a change in setting,characters and plot
Exposition
Introduces the characters,setting,and conflict
Rising action
Events that lead to climax
Climax
A turning point in the plot when the conflict is 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 by what and how they say it
Figures of speech
An idiom like a common phrase with a different meaning of its individual words
Point of view
A character’s perspective that is explored by the characters thoughts and feelings
Monologue
Speech given by one actor
Soliloquy
Character reveals their thoughts and feelings
Aside
Comment made to the audience that isn’t heard by the other actors
Dramatic irony
When the audience knows more
Verbal irony
Character says the opposite of what they mean
Theme
Central message
Central message.
Repeated phases,details, or symbols help identify them
Antiquated language
Language used in the past like the words thou and thee
