Theatre Vocabulary week 2

Body language: the gestures, movements, and mannerisms by which a person or animal communicates with others

Diction: choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness

Movement: the act or process of moving; especially: change of place or position or posture or the vibrant quality in literature

that comes from elements that constantly hold a reader's interest.

Nonverbal communication: communicating without words, using facial expression, gestures, and body language.

Posture: the position or bearing of the body whether characteristic or assumed for a special purpose.

Volume: the degree of loudness or the intensity of a sound

Criticism: the art of evaluating or analyzing works of art or literature

Respect: having high or special regard for someone or something.

Manners: a characteristic or customary mode of acting or social conduct or rules of conduct as shown in the prevalent customs

Dialect: a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from

other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language

Monotone: a tedious sameness or reiteration

Nasality: uttered with the soft palate lowered and with passage of air through the nose

Pitch: the relative highness or lowness of a voice.

Pronunciation: The manner of saying words using the correct sounds and placing the acents on the stressed syllables

Quality: the Individual Sound of a particular voice.

Rate: the speed at which words are spoken.