Spring 1 - Play - English Terms

• Playwright


  The author of the play
• Stage Directions


  Instructions for the actors
• Dramatic irony


  The audience knows something the characters don't
• Act


  Large parts of the play
• Scene 


  Smaller units of the play
• Interval


  A break in the play
• Character


  Made up people in a text
• Soliloquy (aside)


  A speech about thoughts/feelings to the audience
• Script


  The lines from the play
• Genre


  A category or style
• Actor


  A person who plays a character
• Director


  A person who decides how the play is performed
• Setting


  The location/place the story takes place
• Scenery


  Props used on stage
• Tension


  Build up of emotion in the reader
• Allegory 


  A reflection of society/moral
• Antihero


  Main character without heroic qualities
• Foil


  A character contrasts another
• Morality


  Knowing right and wrong
• Stage


  The area where a play is performed