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What is a genre meant to be acted on stage?
Drama or play
What is a conversation between 2 or more characters?
dialogue
what is a part of the script in parenthesis or italics to provide information to actors and directors about actions, emotions, setting, etc.
Stage Directions
A long uninterrupted speech where a character is talking to himself or herself to reveal inner most thoughts and feelings
soliloquy
When a character breaks the fourth wall to interact directly with the audience; often the rest of the action freezes
aside
A general type of character or plot; a template
archetype
When characterization is provided through characters’ words, thoughts actions; readers have to make an inference as the characters’ traits, personality, etc.
Indirect characterization
A character that makes significant changes throughout the plot either physically, mentally, socially, etc.
Dynamic character (sometimes referred to as a round character)
he main character doing the action; usually the “good guy or gal”
protagonist
When the writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like
direct characterization
The feeling a reader or audience gets from a text or performance; conveyed through words, actions, symbols, music, setting, etc.
mood
Clues that the author provides along the way to convey hints about the ending or dénouement
foreshadowing
A comparison where the purpose is for the second to rename the first; it doesn’t use the words like or as
metaphor
an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text
allusion
Ideas, words, images, phrases that repeat for emphasis; also used to help develop and point to theme
repetition
A type of struggle; this element drive and propels the plot.
Conflict
