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✍️Screenwriting II
Key Terms

1020 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Screenwriting II exam

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A

Aaron Sorkin
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Accelerating pace
Acceptance
Act break
Act Structure
Act transitions
Action beats
Action line
Action line tightening
Action lines
Action, Dialogue, and Description Balance
Action-reaction intercutting
Active Listening
Active Viewing
Active Voice
Adaptation rights
Advance payment
Advances
Age
Agent
Alfred Hitchcock
Alien Cultures
All Rights Reserved
Allegorical Subplot
Allegory
Allocating screen time
Alternate history
Alternate selves
Alternating plots
Alternating timelines
Ambiguity
Ambiguous sentences
Ambition
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Anachronism
Anachronisms
Angle on
Antagonist
Antagonist-protagonist relationship
Antagonistic Forces
Antagonistic relationship
Anti-hero
Anticipation
Anxiety
Aristotelian Unity
Artificial intelligence
Atmosphere
Audience engagement
Audience misdirection
Audience reaction
Audience targeting
Auditory cues
Austin Film Festival
Auxiliary function
Avid Media Composer
Awkward silences

B

B-story
Backstory
Backstory Integration
Balancing vision and suggestions
Banter
Barry Jenkins
Beat
Beats
Behavioral patterns
Betrayal
Big Five Personality Traits
Bird's eye view
Blade Runner
Body Horror
Body language
Bong Joon-ho