| A | B |
| Actor | A person playing a role |
| At rise | Start of the play - when the curtain first goes up |
| Character | A person in a play |
| Curtain | Used to indicate an act, scene, or play has ended |
| Drama | Literature written to be performed |
| Enter | Indicates a character walks onto the stage |
| Props | items or objects on stage during the play being used by the characters |
| Setting | Where and when the events take place |
| Stage directions | Details given that describe what a character does or how a character speaks (usually written in parenthesis) |
| Exit | used to indicate a character walks off stage |
| Imagery | The use of details to help the reader imagine something |
| Narrator | The person telling the story |
| Playwright | The author of a piece of drama |