Glossary of Drama Terms

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Across
  1. 1. A speech meant to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage
  2. 2. The conversation of characters in a literary work
  3. 4. as actors and directors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play. (TWO WORDS)
  4. 5. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work
  5. 7. in a successful or happy conclusion.
  6. 10. A speech by a single character without another character's response. The character
  7. 13. The physical representation of the play's setting (location and time period)
  8. 14. A dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance,
Down
  1. 1. A traditional segment in a play
  2. 3. Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play.
  3. 6. A major division in a play
  4. 8. A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (as
  5. 9. is speaking to someone else or even a group of people.
  6. 11. A type of drama in which the characters experience reversal of fortune, usually for the
  7. 12. opposed to a monologue which addresses someone who does not respond).