This is the villain; someone who opposes the main character in a play or novel.
Antagonist
What is the play's main struggle?
Conflict
This is a division within a play, like a chapter divides parts of a novel.
Act
What is the term for introducing the play's basic situation?
Exposition
These are the playwright's notes to actors, directors, and readers.
Stage directions
This is the written form of a play.
Script
Acts in a play are broken up into smaller parts called ______________.
Scenes
These are movable objects, like swords or pens, that actors use on stage.
Props
This is a comment made by a character but not heard by other characters onstage.
Aside
This is the central message or lesson about life in a play.
Theme
What is the play's most exciting part?
Climax
What is the background of the play?
Scenery
What is a story written to be performed in front of an audience?
Drama
What is the word used to describe various items on the stage, such as furniture?
Props
This is the main character in a play or novel.
Protagonist
This is what the actors wear.
Costumes
This is when a character speaks to himself or herself on stage.
Soliloquy
A person or animal in a play
Character
This is the word for the main events of a play.
Plot
What is a dialogue?
A conversation between two or more people or characters
A speech performed to an audience is ___________.
Monologue
How the character looks, what he or she says, and how he or she acts reveals the character's ______________.
Personality
What is the time and place of a play?
Setting
These are the playwright's notes about special effects.
Stage directions