English 9 Keyword 2

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Mask- it is an object normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or entertainment.

Make-up- a products adapted to all make up style’s foundation, eye shadows, lipsticks, gloss, body make-up, eyeliner
pencils, loose.
Poster blurb- a brief advertisement or announcement, especially a laudatory one.
Stage production—Any work of theater, such as a stage play, musical, comedy or drama product from a written book or
script.
Flashback—A scene or event from the past that appears in a narrative out of chronological order, to fill in information or
explain something on the present.
Foreshadowing—It is to indicate or suggest something usually unpleasant, that is going to happen.
Puppetry—The skill or activity of using puppet in performance.
Pantomime---It is telling a story without words.
Playbill—It is a poster or piece of paper that advertise a play.
Pacing---it is the final few rehearsals just prior to opening right in which the shows are run full technical elements. The
full costumes and make up are worn.
Thrust stage—it is the oldest known fixed type staging in the world and it is thousands of years old.
Proscenium stage---A stage where the audience sits on one side only.
In-the-round stage--- The positioned at the enter of the audience.
Traverse stage---a stage where the audience sits on two sides. It is good for creating an intimate atmosphere.
Improvisation—It is a spontaneous invention and development of drama from within the role.
Ensemble—a group of theatrical artists working together to create a theatrical production.
Director—The person who oversees the entire process of staging a production.
Artists---a male or female person who performs a role in a play, television or movie.
Stage crew---the backstage technical crew responsible for running.
Crossfader---control switching sound source.
Douser—to put out light fire or flame, especially will water.
Gesture—an expressive movement of the body.
Blocking--- the planning and working out of the movements of actors on stage.
Comedy--- a theatrical work that is entertaining humorously.
Tragedy—a play in which the main characters suffers a major downfall.
Theme—the basic idea of a play.
Tone—it is the writer’s attitude toward the subject he or she is writing about.
Theater—a collaborative art form including the composition, enactment, and interpretation of dramatic presentation for an
audience.
Soliloquy--- it is a long speech by a character who is alone on stage with no other characters listening.
Stage Direction--- it is an instruction and describe the setting and tell about the action.
Suspense---in situations which rouse our concern for the welfare of the characters can be created in many ways in a play.
Playwright---the one who write a play.
Stage--- the platform on which the actors perform.
Static character—a type of character which showing little or no change, action or progress.
Stock character—a type of character relies heavily on cultural types or stereotypes for its personality and manner of
speech.

Skit—a short, usually comic dramatic performance of a work.


Scenery--- the background art or structures on stage to help show the settings.
Setting- the place and time where the events of a drama take place.
Script—the written words for the play and this is everyone reads in order to perform a play.
Scene—a division of an act, in which a certain portion of the play unfolds, usually separated by location or time.
Rising action—it is a part of plot consisting of complications and discoveries that create conflict.
Resolution— the part of the story’s plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved.
Play—the stage representation of an action or a story.
One-act-play--- a play that takes places from beginning to end, in a single act; it can range from one minute to one hour
long.
Mood—the feeling the reader gets when reading.
Monologue--- a long speech by a character on stage with other characters listening.
Genre--- the main types of literary form.
Play bill—a poster announcing a theatrical performance.
Literary device—refers to any specific, deliberate constructions by language which an author uses to convey meaning.
Exposition—detailed information revealing the facts of a plot.
Drama---refers to acting, and to the setup of the play which includes the theater, the hall accessories, the green room,
costumes, music, and the like.
Climax--- the point of greatest dramatic tension in a theatrical work or the highest point or ost intense point in the
development or resolution.
Conflict—it is an opposition of persons or forces giving rise to dramatic action.
Characters—refers to a person, creatures, or entity with specific and distinguishing attributes portrayed by the actor in a
play.
Antagonist--- a person or a situation that opposes the protagonist’s goals or desire.

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