| A | B |
|---|
| plot | storyline |
| character | person or animal |
| theme | the basic idea |
| language | formal setting or dialect |
| spectacle | visuals (what you see) |
| setting | where and when of story |
| script | printed copy of the play |
| projection | how well the voice carries |
| climax | high point of the action |
| dialogue | conversation between two or more people |
| monologue | one person speaking |
| acoustics | quality of room in respect to transmission of sound |
| conflict | dramatic opposition |
| cast | a group of people performing a play |
| actor | male actor |
| actress | female actor |
| critique | evaluation or judgement |
| acts | major sections of a play |
| action | activity on stage |
| choreography | movement to music |
| dramatic exposition | The presentation through dialogue of information about events that occurred before the action of a play, or that occur offstage or between the staged actions; this may also refer to the presentation of information about individual characters' backgrounds or the general situation (political, historical, etc.) in which the action takes place. |
| stage direction | an instruction written into the script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements. |
| character motives | something that causes a person to act in a certain way, do a certain thing, etc. |
| critical viewing | means taking a closer look. It means that. you are an active, rather than passive. |
| The Inquisition | an ecclesiastical tribunal established by Pope Gregory IX circa 1232 for the suppression of heresy. It was active chiefly in northern Italy and southern France, becoming notorious for the use of torture. In 1542 the papal Inquisition was re-established to combat Protestantism, eventually becoming an organ of papal government. |
| inquisition | a period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation. |
| soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. |
| downstage | at or toward the front of a stage. |
| upstage | at or toward the back of a theater stage. |
center stage,  | the middle section of a theater's stage |
