Students should know the following drama terms:

Act - the larger unit of division within a play (Shakespeare plays all have five acts)

Aside - character speaks to audience or another character without others onstage hearing

Foil - character used to contrast with another character

Soliloquy - dramatic or extended speech by a character alone on stage

Chorus - group of actors that supplement the drama happening

Tragedy - very serious themes where a tragic figure meets destruction due to some character flaw

Comedy- generally light-hearted themes where characters find love; generally ends happily

Pun - humorous play on words - 2 or more meanings for the same word

Scene - the smaller unit of division within a play

Comic Relief - interrupts serious event with humor to break the tension for further dramatic building