Act - one of the main divisions of a play or opera, Aside - short speech heard by the audience but not by the other characters in the play, Comedy - a literary work which is amusing and ends well, Drama - story acted out, usually on a stage, by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters, Stage Directions - a playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play, Conventions - unrealistic devices or procedures that the reader (or audience) agrees to accept, Monologue - a long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of other characters, Irony of Situation - result of an action is the reverse of what the actor and audience expected, Dramatic Irony - the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not, Scene - a division with no change of locale or abrupt shift of time, Soliloquy - a speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts aloud, Staging - the spectacle a play presents in performance, including the position of actors on stage, the scenic background, the props and costumes, and the lighting and sound effects, Suspension of Disbelief - a willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment, Tragedy - in general, a literary work in which the central character meets an unhappy or disastrous end, Tragic Flaw - a weakness or limitation of character, resulting in the fall of the tragic hero, Chorus - a group of characters in Greek tragedy (and in later forms of drama), who comment on the action of a play without participation in it. Their leader is the choragos. Sophocles' Antigone and Oedipus the King both contain an explicit chorus with a choragos., Deus ex machina - a god who resolves the entanglements of a play by supernatural intervention. The Latin phrase means, literally, "a god from the machine." The phrase refers to the use of artificial means to resolve the plot of a play., Dialogue - the conversation of characters in a literary work. In fiction, dialogue is typically enclosed within quotation marks. In plays, characters' speech is preceded by their names., Dramatist Personae - latin for the characters or persons in a play., Foil - a character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story., Recognition - the point at which a character understands his or her situation as it really is., Reversal - the point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist., Stock Character - a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by the writer., Round Character - a character whose personality, background, motives, and other features are fully delineated by the author., Flat Character - a character whose personality can be defined by one or two traits and does not change in the course of the story, Commedia dell' arte - a form of theatrical improvisation developed in the 1500s which includes stock characters and farcical situations,

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