Knowing all the terms of drama is very important due to they are inescapable in exam question. However, the list of drama terms are more than hundred, but with the help of selected few terms to focus for literature exam can guarantee sucess. Literature students are hereby employed to take cognizance of these terms of drama listed below to avoid penalty from exam board. However, the easiest way to master drama features is to engage in your school plays or still read them practically to avoid excess cramming.
A Playwright: This is a person who writes a play.
CASTS or ACTORS: This are those who act in play.
COSTUME: Costume is what an actor wears while acting a play.
DIRECTOR: This is a person who sees to the orderly movement of actions in a play.
LIGHTING: Is used in depicting day and night in a play.
ACTION, SPACE (place) and TIME: This are the three unities suggested by the French playwrights, though these unities are ascribed to Aristotle.
PROLOGUE: Prologue is a speech in the beginning of a play.
EPILOGUE: Is a at the end of a play.
CHORUS: In a play this is meant to (i) tell us more about the story (ii) comment on the story (iii) add melody to the play.
THEME: This simply reffers to the main idea in a play.
MONOLOGUE: This is when a single person is talking.
DIALOGUE: Is a discussion between actors.
SOLILOQUY: This when an actor talks to himself silently or aloud.
DRAMMATIC IRONY: Is defined as when the audience understands what is hidden from the actors.
ASIDE: is when an actor goes aside to say things that the audience will hear but the other actors might not.
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PURGATION OR CARTHASIS: Is when a character gets a deserved punishment for a sin committed and it leads to the purging of emotions.
COMIC RELIEF: Is the insertion of humour into a serious play to reduce tension.
A CLOWN or JESTER: In a play this person creates humour.
CLIMAX: This is the moment of greatest excitement in a play.
ANT-CLIMAX: This is the decrease in the excitement of the plot of a play.
SETTING: The setting of a play is the place (spatial setting) and time (temporal setting) that action in the play occurs.
DENOMORE or DENOUEMENT: Is the point in which the revelation in the plot of a play takes place.
PANTOMIME：This is a play in which actors act to the accompaniment of music without talking.
OPERA: Is a play in which words are accompanied by music
AUDIENCE: This is the people watching a play.
A PROMPTER: Is someone who conceals himself near the stage of remind actors who forget their lines.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Is the list of characters of a play.
STAGE: This is the place where a play is acted
PLOT: Is the sequential unfolding of events in a play.
DIDACTIC DRAMA: This is meant to teach morals or lessons.
CHRONICLE: This are dramatic rendition of English history. Examples are: Edward II by Christopher Marlowe and Richard II, Henry IIV. and Henry V by William Shakespeare.
MASQUE: Is an elaborate form of court (palace) entertainment in England, which combines poetic drama, music, dance and fine costuming.
SOMNABULISM: This refers to the act of sleepwalking in a play
The Terms or Features of Drama are:
A Playwright: This is a person who writes a play.
CASTS or ACTORS: This are those who act in play.
COSTUME: Costume is what an actor wears while acting a play.
DIRECTOR: This is a person who sees to the orderly movement of actions in a play.
LIGHTING: Is used in depicting day and night in a play.
ACTION, SPACE (place) and TIME: This are the three unities suggested by the French playwrights, though these unities are ascribed to Aristotle.
PROLOGUE: Prologue is a speech in the beginning of a play.
EPILOGUE: Is a at the end of a play.
CHORUS: In a play this is meant to (i) tell us more about the story (ii) comment on the story (iii) add melody to the play.
THEME: This simply reffers to the main idea in a play.
MONOLOGUE: This is when a single person is talking.
DIALOGUE: Is a discussion between actors.
SOLILOQUY: This when an actor talks to himself silently or aloud.
DRAMMATIC IRONY: Is defined as when the audience understands what is hidden from the actors.
ASIDE: is when an actor goes aside to say things that the audience will hear but the other actors might not.
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PURGATION OR CARTHASIS: Is when a character gets a deserved punishment for a sin committed and it leads to the purging of emotions.
COMIC RELIEF: Is the insertion of humour into a serious play to reduce tension.
A CLOWN or JESTER: In a play this person creates humour.
CLIMAX: This is the moment of greatest excitement in a play.
ANT-CLIMAX: This is the decrease in the excitement of the plot of a play.
SETTING: The setting of a play is the place (spatial setting) and time (temporal setting) that action in the play occurs.
DENOMORE or DENOUEMENT: Is the point in which the revelation in the plot of a play takes place.
PANTOMIME：This is a play in which actors act to the accompaniment of music without talking.
OPERA: Is a play in which words are accompanied by music
AUDIENCE: This is the people watching a play.
A PROMPTER: Is someone who conceals himself near the stage of remind actors who forget their lines.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE: Is the list of characters of a play.
STAGE: This is the place where a play is acted
PLOT: Is the sequential unfolding of events in a play.
DIDACTIC DRAMA: This is meant to teach morals or lessons.
CHRONICLE: This are dramatic rendition of English history. Examples are: Edward II by Christopher Marlowe and Richard II, Henry IIV. and Henry V by William Shakespeare.
MASQUE: Is an elaborate form of court (palace) entertainment in England, which combines poetic drama, music, dance and fine costuming.
SOMNABULISM: This refers to the act of sleepwalking in a play
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