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| 10014620989 | Drama | -Derived from the Greek word "dram" meaning "to do" or "to perform." The term may refer to a single play, group of plays, or to all plays. Designed for performance in a theater. | 0 | |
| 10014634805 | Play | -General term for a work of dramatic literature | 1 | |
| 10014638215 | Playwright | -A writer who makes plays | 2 | |
| 10014639714 | Script | -The written text of a play, which includes dialogue between characters, stage directions, and often other expository information. | 3 | |
| 10014646870 | Stage Directions | -A playwright's written instructions about how the actors are to move and behave in a play. They explain in which direction characters should move, what facial expressions to use, etc. | 4 | |
| 10014659165 | Dialogue | -The verbal exchanges between characters. Makes the character seem real to the reader and audience by revealing firsthand their thoughts, responses, and emotional states. | 5 | |
| 10014678381 | One-Act-Play | -A play that takes place in a single location and unfolds as one continuous action. Characters are presented economically and action is sharply focused. | 6 | |
| 10014688788 | Act | -A major division in the action of a play. The ends are typically indicated by lowering the curtain or turning up the houselights. | 7 | |
| 10014725627 | Scene | -In drama, it's a subdivision of an act. In modern plays, they usually consist of units of action in which there are no changes in the setting or breaks in the continuity of time. | 8 | |
| 10014742529 | Setting | -The physical and social context in which the action of a story occurs.. The major elements include time, place, and social environment that frames the character. | 9 | |
| 10035873109 | Suspense | -The anxious anticipation of a reader or an audience as to the outcome of the story, especially concerning the character or characters with whom sympathetic attachments are formed | 10 | |
| 10035873110 | Exposition | -A narrative device,, often used at the beginning of a work, that provides necessary background about characters and their circumstances. | 11 | |
| 10035873111 | Conflict | -The struggle within the plot between opposing forces | 12 | |
| 10035873144 | Plot | -An author's selection and arrangement of incidents in a story to shape the action and give the story a particular focus. | 13 | |
| 10035875946 | Pyramidal Pattern | -Divides the plot three essential parts | 14 | |
| 10035875947 | Denouement | -A french term meaning "unraveling" or "unknotting" used describe the resolution of the plot following the climax | 15 | |
| 10035875948 | Protagonist | -The main character of a narrative; its central character who engages the reader's interest and empathy | 16 | |
| 10035879260 | Antagonist | -The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the protagonist and gives rise conflict to the story. | 17 | |
| 10035879261 | Foil | -A character in a work whose behavior and values contrast with those of another character in order to highlight distinctive temperament of that character. | 18 | |
| 10036583691 | Orchestra | -The dancing place where the chorus performed | 19 | |
| 10036583692 | Chorus | -A group of men who chanted lines and danced | 20 | |
| 10036585801 | Skene | -A stage building that served as dressing rooms and eventually became a type of set or backdrop. | 21 | |
| 10036585802 | Deus Ex machina | -L. "God from the machine") Mechanical devices for lowering gods onto the performing area. | 22 | |
| 10036585803 | Prologue | -An opening speech or dialogue that usually gives the exposition necessary to follow the plot. | 23 | |
| 10036588523 | Episodia | -Episodes in which characters engage in dialogue. | 24 | |
| 10036588524 | Stasimon | -A choral ode that follows each episode, in which the chorus responds to and interprets the preceding dialogue. | 25 | |
| 10036591131 | Exodus | -The last scene, in which the resolution occurs and the characters leave the stage. | 26 | |
| 10036591132 | Mystery Plays | -Dramatizations of stories from the Bible. | 27 | |
| 10036593290 | Miracle Plays | -Dramatizations of the lives of saints. | 28 | |
| 10036595495 | Morality Plays | -Presentations of allegorical stories in which virtues and vices were personified. | 29 | |
| 10037275842 | Parados | -Where the chorus makes its first entrance and gives its perspective on what the audience has learned in the prologue. | 30 | |
| 10037295477 | Aside | -A speech directed to the audience. | 31 | |
| 10037299896 | Soliloquy | -A speech delivered while an actor is alone on the stage. | 32 | |
| 10037532632 | Melodrama | -Love stories and action-packed plots that offer audiences thrills and chills as well as happy endings. | 33 | |
| 10037532633 | Realism | -A technique that attempts to create the appearance of life as it is actually experienced | 34 | |
| 10037535563 | Naturalism | -A type of realism that takes more of a philosophical approach. | 35 | |
| 10037610187 | Problem Play | -A drama that represents a social issue in order to awaken the audience to it. | 36 | |
| 10037614005 | Symbolist Drama: | -Emphasizes a subjective, emotional response to life and seeks to express spiritual truth through settings, characters, and actions that suggest a transcendent reality. | 37 | |
| 10037617313 | Expressionism | -Emphasizes the internal lives of characters and deliberately distorts reality by creating an outward manifestation of an inner state of being. | 38 | |
| 10037624212 | Theatre of the Absurd | -A response to loss of faith in reason, religion, and life itself that emphasizes chaotic, irrational forces and portrays human beings as more the victims than the makers of their world. | 39 | |
| 10037627025 | Tragedy | -A presentation of courageous individuals who confront powerful forces ,within or outside themselves, with dignity. | 40 | |
| 10037714641 | Hamartia | -An error or frailty that brings about the misfortune of the protagonist. | 41 | |
| 10037719264 | Hubris | -Overarching pride that leads to the misfortune of the protagonist | 42 | |
| 10037723601 | Catharsis | -When an audience feels relief at the end of a tragedy, a purgation of the emotions of pity and fear | 43 | |
| 10037730989 | Reversal | -The point when a hero's fortunes turn in an unexpected direction. | 44 | |
| 10037734997 | Recognition | -When previously unknown information is revealed | 45 | |
| 10037752108 | Comedy | -A work intended to interest, involve, and amuse an audience, in which no terrible disaster occurs and that ends happily for the main characters. | 46 | |
| 10037755539 | High Comedy | -Comedy that is typified by verbal wit | 47 | |
| 10037758596 | Low Comedy | Comedy that is less intellectual and generally associated with physical action | 48 | |
| 10037760549 | Romantic Comedy | A comedy that typically involves lovers whose hearts are set on each other, but whose lives are complicated by some sort of misunderstanding. | 49 | |
| 10037763655 | Satire | A form of comedy in which vices and follies are criticized | 50 | |
| 10037767574 | Farce | A form of humor based on exaggerated, improbable incongruities | 51 |
