Drama Vocabulary

5. a long speech in a play or movie
7. a person who narrates something, especially a character who recounts the events of a novel or narrative poem
8. Relief comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections.
9. the written text of a play, movie, or broadcast
11. an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress
14. perform a fictional role in a play, movie, or television production
15. a sequence of continuous action in a play, movie, opera, or book
16. Areas that are part of a stage deck but offstage (out of sight of the audience)
17. a group of actors who make up a film or stage play

1. conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, movie, or play
2. an event or action that leads to another event or situation
3. an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself, or regardless of any hearers
4. (of a group of people) say the same thing at the same time.
6. a remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by others in the play
10. relating to or inserted as a parenthesis
12. the omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
13. left on the left side of a stage from the point of view of a performer facing the audience