Drama Terms Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. The audience knows something that the characters do not.
  2. 7. Serves as explicit exposition introducing material before the first scene begins.
  3. 8. The meter of Shakespeare’s sonnets that has a repeated pattern of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables five times in a poetry line. da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM.
  4. 10. A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play.
  5. 13. Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play.
  6. 15. A 14 line poem that has three rhyming quatrains and an ending couplet. Often about love.
  7. 16. A story acted out, usually on a stage, by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters.
  8. 17. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better. In comedy, things work out happily in the end.
  9. 20. A group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it.
Down
  1. 2. Two lines back-to-back that rhyme.
  2. 3. A smaller division of the play inside of an act that shows little to no change in scenery or time.
  3. 4. The pattern of rhyme in a stanza or poem. Each line is labeled with a letter of the alphabet to identify rhyming sections.
  4. 5. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse. In tragedy, catastrophe and suffering await many of the characters, especially the hero.
  5. 6. Four lines of poetry that go together based on the rhyme scheme.
  6. 7. Articles or objects that appear on stage during a play.
  7. 9. A particular quality, pitch, modulation, or inflection of the voice expressing or indicating affirmation, interrogation, hesitation, decision, or some feeling or emotion; vocal expression.
  8. 11. A short speech at the end of the play that meaningfully reflects on the events that have taken place.
  9. 12. A play that focuses on a historical figure or event. Often embellished and more dramatic versions of the original.
  10. 14. A speech in a play that is meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. If there are no other characters present, the soliloquy represents the character thinking aloud.
  11. 15. Division of a poem. Like a paragraph.
  12. 18. The conversation of characters in a literary work. In plays, characters' speech is preceded by their names. In fiction, dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks.
  13. 19. A main division in the play where the stage is set for a new location or time. Curtains would be closed and opened as a sign of change.