Drama Vocabulary Review

A play designed to arouse intense emotion by exaggeration and fast moving action.

• Melodrama

• Tragedy

• Comedy

• Properties

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

The hero or leading character with whom the audience sympathizes.

• Antagonist

• Motivation

• Protagonist

• Actor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The character who opposes or competes with the protagonist.

• Actor

• Antagonist

• Audience

• Atmosphere

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

All of the stage furnishings, objects, etc.

• Properties

• Plot

• Aside

• Motivation

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Mood or feeling of the play.

• Upstage

• Audience

• Actor

• Atmosphere

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Important central idea presented by the play.

• Plot

• Aside

• Act

• Theme

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

The chain of events that make up the play.

• Plot

• Motivation

• Theme

• Dialogue

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

Left the stage from the actor's point of view.

• Stage right

• Stage left

• Upstage

• Downstage

Right of the stage from the actor's point of view.

• Stage right

• Stage left

• Upstage

• Downstage

Area of the stage away from the footlights.

• Stage left

• Stage right

• Upstage

• Downstage