Drama Terms

2. Larger portion of a play, broken by intermission
3. Smaller portions of a play's organization
4. Items held or used by actors onstage to make the play action more realistic
7. Involves union, positive endings
9. Speech delivered to the audience, while the other actors are "unaware" of what is being said
12. Instruction in the text of the play which indicates movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting

1. Used as a backdrop and setting for a theatrical production
5. Dialogue, stage directions, and instructions for director and actors
6. A type of irony where the audience knows more than the characters
8. Hero falls from grace, often sad ending
10. Character who contrasts with another character
11. Challenge the characters must overcome
12. Passage where a character shares their thoughts or feelings aloud while either alone on the stage or with other characters keeping quiet