Drama STAAR Vocabulary

A play that is meant to be performed on a stage for an audience.

• Drama

• Playwright

• Stage Directions

Give directions to the actors on how to act on stage. They are usually placed in parentheses and/or in italics.

• Drama

• Playwright

• Stage Directions

A long speech delivered by a character who is alone onstage (typically reveals the private thoughts of a character).

• Narrator

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquies

The words that are spoken by the actors.

• Narrator

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquies

A story written to be performed by actors; a play

• drama

• line

• personification

a situation in which the outcome is contrary to what was expected

• allegory

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

• vociferous irony

A type of drama where the main character has a downfall, and will have an unhappy ending where many people could possible die. 

• comedy

• science-fiction

• melodrama 

• tragedy 

The words that actors are supposed to say or read aloud when they are acting out a drama.

• dialogue

• opinions

• plot

• setting

Instructions given to the actors so they know how to act and the tone of voice to use. These are used in dramas.

• genre

• non fiction

• resolution

• stage directions

A division of an act within a play

• narrator

• props

• ad lib

• scene