Drama Review Terms

Another word for "a play"

• script

• drama

• dialogue

These are directions in either italics or brackets that tell the actor how to speak or behave

• script

• dialogue

• stage directions

_______________________ or ___________________________are written in such a way that the stage directions contain direction for the cameras and how the play is to be filmed.

• Set or props

• Act or scene

• Teleplays or screenplays

These are movable items that are used to help convey the story.

• sets

• props

• scripts

A lengthy speech that one character addresses to others on stage.

• Monologue

• Dialogue

• Aside

• Set

This is the break that comes between acts.

• act

• scene

• intermission

A group of scenes makes an ____.

• act

• scene

• intermission

A ____ is a literary form of writing for theater, which

narrates a story with elements of conflicts, tensions,

and actions through dialogues of characters.

A piece of spoken verse within plays that gives the audience insight into the innermost thoughts and feelings of the speaker. 

A single person or group of people who serve mainly as the commentator(s) on the characters and events in the play.