ELEMENTS OF A PLAY OR FILM - RELATED VOCABULARY -PART ONE (53)

19/10/2022 ELEMENTS OF A PLAY OR FILM-RELATED VOCABULARY - PART ONE act to perform a role on the stage or enact a particular character in a film action an actor's performance to bring to life the character portrayed by them by suitable use of voice, gestures and slapstick etc., allegory a story, play, picture, and so forth in which each person or event is a symbolic fictional figure representing qualities like truth, immorality, vices, virtues and so on aside (in the theater) some narrative that a character in a play shares with the audience but not with the other characters to move the plot forward backstory the developments that should have led to the main story or plot and the characters in a film, novel, etc., baddy a monstrous or malicious person in a film, book, play, and so on who opposes the protagonist characters individuals or persons with different traits in a book, play or film climax the most significant occasion which is most noteworthy or a significant defining moment in the course of the play or film coup de théâtre unexpected highly dramatic and extremely sensational turn of events that occurs in the course of a play or film denouement the logical conclusion of a play, book, and so forth, in which the main dramatic intricacy in a literary work is resolved dialogue one-to-one or involving more persons conversation in a book, play or film dramatic irony the dichotomy of a situation in a film or play when a character’s words or actions is understood by the audience with an additional significance dramatis personaeˌ every one of the actors playing different roles in a play or film ending the last part of a story, film, and so forth epilogue a final discourse that remarks on the overall plot of the play and is delivered in verse form by one of the actors in the play exit departure particularly of an entertainer from the stage after enacting his/her part flashback a part of a film, play, and so on that shows a sequence that happened in the past and showcases an earlier occurrence significant to the main story fourth wall a fictional boundary that separates the characters in a work of fiction from individuals who are watching or reading and for the entertainers the wall is opaque and for the audience it is transparent goodie or goody a decent, well-mannered individual in a book or film who thwarts the plans of the antagonist hero the principal male character in a story, novel, film, etc., heroine the vital female character in a story, novel, film, and so forth. Hollywood ending the final ending in a film, novel, and so forth that occurs with expected twists and turns which is highly melodramatic and lacks sense and sensibility intermission or interval a brief time frame between parts of a play or film