Drama Terms and Vocabulary

5. Any person portrayed by an actor in a drama, those who the play revolves around.
6. A conversation between two characters.
7. The way the playwright allows you to “see” and “hear” what’s going on.
8. Part of a play defined by rising action, turning point, and resolution or conclusion.
9. Part of a play during which there is no change in time or place.

1. A written version of a play.
2. The actions and words of characters on a stage.
3. The place and time where the events take place, it dominates the audience's experience of the drama, it quite literally forms the backdrop for the action.
4. A playwright's instructions, usually embedded within the script itself, on how the written work should be adapted to live performance, indicate how the dialogue should be acted out, how the characters should be positioned against one another and the set, and how they should move about the stage.
7. What the characters do and what happens to them, includes introduction, rising action, turning point, falling point, and conclusion.