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Home Dictionary Name: sceneon the scene
Being or occurring at the place or time in question as an on the scene newscast...
Scenery
Assemblage of scenes the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play poem etc is laid representation of place of action or occurence...
Figurant
One who dances at the opera not singly but in groups or figures an accessory character on the stage who figures in its scenes but has nothing to say hence one who figures in any scene without taking a prominent part...
flashback
a transition in literary or theatrical works or films to an earlier event or scene also the scene thus introduced...
Melodrama
Formerly a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes Now a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic In opera a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment while the actor speaks as the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethovens ldquoFideliordquo...
alibi
alibi [Latin, elsewhere, from alius other] : a defense of having been somewhere other than at the scene of a crime at the time the crime was committed ;also : the fact or state of having been elsewhere at the time a crime was committed NOTE: Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 12.1 requires the defendant to provide notice upon written demand of an intention to offer a defense of alibi. Likewise, the prosecution must provide to the defendant upon written demand the names of witnesses that will be used to rebut the defense. ...
Ballet
An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment or an interlude by a number of persons usually women Sometimes a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing...
Bambocciade
A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life...
closing
final or ending terminal as the closing stages of the election the closing weeks of the year the closing scene of the film closing remarks Opposite of opening...
Cyclorama
A pictorial view which is extended circularly so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature The realistic effect is increased by putting in the space between the spectator and the picture things adapted to the scene represented and in some places only parts of these objects the completion of them being carried out pictorially...
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