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| Accent | the sound and patterns of speech from a specific region |
| Act | the main sections of a play |
| Active Listening | suing what you hear to build meaning |
| Antagonist | a main character who opposes the protagonist |
| Articulation | clearly pronouncing words |
| Aside | words spoken by a character to the audience where the other characters do not hear the speech |
| Audience Participation | when the audience takes part in the action of the play |
| Bit Part | a role with very few lines |
| Blackout | when all stage lights go off simultaneously |
| Blocking | the director's planned movement of the characters |
| Build | increase of vocal intensity toward a climactic point |
| Stage Business | detailed bits of action such as knitting, setting the table, etc. |
| Cameo | a one-scene part |
| Catharsis | emotional purging that the audience feels during a play |
| Conflict | the dramatic opposition of the protagonist with society, peers or themselves |
| Crisis | an event that occurs just when it seems things could either resolve or worsen |
| Comedy | a play that ends happily and arouses laughter through humorous treatment of an aspect of life |
| Continuity | in film or television, the matching of visual elements from take to take and from scene to scene |
| Cue | the last words or action of one actor that immediately precede another actor's speech |
| Cut | a command to stop action and dialogue |
| Demographic | an advertising term meaning a 'group of people' |
| Dissolve | In film and TV, when one shot is faded out and another is faded in |
| Farce | a physical comedy that exaggerates situations until they are hardly believable |
| Final Cut | the finished film |
| Genre | a type or classification of literature |
| Low Comedy | a comedy that is physical and sometimes vulgar |
| Modified Authenticity | the idea that a costume only needs to give the impression of the design |
| Morality Play | a drama that teaches right from wrong |
| Mystery Play | a drama based on a Bible story |
| Parody | to imitate in a humorous way |
| Pilot | the first episode of a television show that introduces a potential new series |
| Production | the phase of filmmaking in which the movie was shot |
| Prompt Book | a binder that contains the annotated script with director's idea about details |
| Protagonist | the main character with whom audience empathy lies |
