| A | B |
|---|
| protagonist | the person who drives the action; the main character |
| irony | what you expect and what actually happens are two different things! |
| playwright | the author of a play |
| actor | The person who pretends to be a character in a play |
| soliloquy | A long speech made by one person |
| antagonist | the protagonist's main opponent--NOT always a villain! |
| stage direction | playwright's instructions about how to say lines, how and where to move |
| adaptation | changing the medium of a material: Spiderman was a comic, and now it's a movie. |
| dialogue | conversation between two people |
| aside | words that a character says that are meant for the audience or for another character onstage. |
