a dramatic device in which a character speaks to the audience | ||
occurs when a character speaks directly to the audience, acknowledging the fact that he is in a fictional work | ||
a group of speakers, usually in ancient Greek drama, that speak in unison and comment on the action of the play. | ||
transition to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story | ||
a literary technique used by an author to provide clues for the reader to be able to predict what might occur later in the story | ||
an extended uninterrupted speech by a character in a drama | ||
any item that is used or handled by an actor, or is otherwise identified in the script | ||
items arranged on stage to represent the landscape, architecture, or furniture present in a scene | ||
a literary device often used in drama whereby a character relates his or her thoughts and feelings without addressing any of the other characters. | ||
a note in a script, giving directions to an actor as to how he or she should handle in a particular situation | ||
professional who supervises the physical aspects in the production of a show and who is in charge of the stage when the show is being performed | ||
insult | ||
eagerness, liveliness, enthusiasm, promptness, speed | ||
sterile, infertile, providing no fruit, shelter, or sustenance | ||
a dark, fine-grained igneous rock | ||
aggressive, hostile, quarrelsome | ||
a flowering herb with thistles or burrs; inspirations for the invention of Velcro | ||
to plan, devise, design, design, or invent | ||
the inscription on a tombstone | ||
big and sprawling, lanky | ||
a person who studies histories or the "family tree" | ||
cotton fabric woven into checkered pattern | ||
flowering plant, whose called "turnsole"; plants turn their leaves to the sun | ||
a tall chest-of-drawers | ||
a plant with tall spikes of showy flowers | ||
pretending to feel or believe something one does not feel or believe | ||
an inheritance | ||
excessively mournful | ||
painful inflammation in the lumbar (lower) spine | ||
undesirably noticeable; sticking out; protruding | ||
drink of carbonated water, flavored syrup, and phosphoric acid | ||
the arch that frames the stage with entry steps for the stage | ||
a region of a country, a district | ||
similar to arthritis, inflammation or pain the muscles and joints | ||
a learned person; a scholar | ||
the quality or condition of having showing tender, gentle, or delicate feelings | ||
fine-grained sedimentary rock made of clay, mud, or silt | ||
an infectious disease marked by convulsive coughing |
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