| A | B |
|---|
| drama | a story told in action by actors who impersonate the characters in a story |
| tragedy | a work that ends in disaster or unhappiness for the main character |
| comedy | a work that is amusing and ends happily |
| stage directions | instructions in the script of a play directing the movements of the actors, arrangement of scenery, etc. |
| foil | a character who is the opposite of another character |
| soliloquy | a speech spoken by a character alone on the stage |
| monologue | a long, uninterrupted speech spoken in the presence of other characters |
| aside | a speech intended to be heard by only some of the characters on the stage |
