Knights Our Town Vocabulary
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| 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 |