Drama Vocabulary list.
During the course all these terms will become familiar to you. Many of
them you will already know from KS3.
1. Fill in the meaning of all the words you know so far. Then fill
in an example that you have seen or used.
2. Whenever new words come up in class or during your research
continue to fill in the meaning of word and examples.
3. In your homework booklets there are lots of examples of specialist
vocabulary that will help you fill this in.
4. Keep this list safely with your other drama work, it will be your
own personal glossary of terms that will help you use specialist
vocabulary in class and in your written work.
ESSENTIAL
VOCABULARY
MEANING
Accent
Actor
Angels and devils
Articulation
Articulation
Atmosphere
Attitude
Audience
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EXAMPLE OF HOW
YOU HAVE USED OR
SEEN THIS WORD
Back stage
Back track
Blocking
Character profile
Characterisation
Clarity
Climax
Co operation
Comedy
Commitment
Concentration
Conflict
Costume
Cue
Devised
improvisation
Dialogue
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Diction
Emphasis
Evaluation
Exploration
Eye contact
Facial expression
Flash back
Fluency
Form and
structure
Freeze
Gesture
Given
circumstances
Hot seating
In the round
Interpretation
Intonation
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Language of the
role
Make up
Melodramatic
Mime
Monologue
Mood
Motivation
Movement
Narrator
Off text
improvisation
Pace
Pause
Pitch
Playwright
Plot
Preparation
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Promenade
Prompt
Props and
properties
Proscenium arch
Rehearsal
Relationships on
stage
Research skills
Researching a
character
Reverse control
Rhythm
Role
Role on the wall
Script
Set design
Set the stage
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Silent
communication
Slo mo (slow
motion)
Spatial awareness
Spoken thoughts
Spontaneous
improvisation
Stage directions
Staging
Status
Stimulus
Strike the set
Tableau
Teacher in role
Techniques
Tension
Text
Thought tracking
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Thought tunnel
Thrust stage
Tone
Tragedy
Traverse
Up staging
Visualisation
Volume
Writing in role
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