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Drama |
a play for theater, radio, or television. |
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Aside |
a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play. |
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Tragedy |
a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character. |
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Comedy |
professional entertainment consisting of jokes and satirical sketches, intended to make an audience laugh. |
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Prologue |
an event or action that leads to another event or situation. |
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Cómic relief |
comic episodes in a dramatic or literary work that offset more serious sections. |
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Rhyming couplet |
A Rhyming Couplet is two line of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought. There is no limit to the length of the lines. Rhyming words are words that sound the same when spoken, they don't necessarily have to be spelt the same. |
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Dialogue |
conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie. |
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Stage directions |
an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting. |
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Dramatic dialogue |
A dramatic monologue is a long excerpt in a play, poem or story that reveals a character's thoughts and feelings. When we read a story, sometimes we can see what a character is thinking, but it isn't always so clear. |
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Scene |
a sequence of continuous action in a play, movie, opera, or book. |
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Act |
a main division of a play, ballet, or opera. |
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Soliloquy |
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. |
