单词	playwright
释义	playwrightplay‧wright /ˈpleɪraɪt/ ●○○ noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Campbell had been a fairly well-known playwright at one time. Even when a playwright has been drafted in, you can still see the joins. Like actor / playwright Anna Deveare Smith, he taped the interviews, and so the characters speak in their own words. Matty is very interested in the Restoration playwrights. One of the new playwrights was Ben Jonson. The bruising rejection might have crushed another playwright. The other Albert was Albert Finney, who stars as a successful restaurateur attempting a reconciliation with his playwright brother. These playwrights claimed they could correct vice only by sentiment, not ridicule. Thesaurus THESAURUS► writer someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: · Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.· a writer for the Independent on Sunday magazine· I always wanted to be a writer. ► author someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: · Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie.· The author will be signing copies of his book.· He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’. ► novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: · Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.· the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland ► poet someone who writes poems: · a class studying the works of modern American poets ► playwright someone who writes plays: · Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in English history. ► dramatist someone who writes plays – used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: · the great French dramatist, Moliere ► scriptwriter (also screenwriter) someone who writes plays for films or television: · Three or four scriptwriters work on the show. ► blogger someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: · a travel blogger· a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English WORD SETS► Literature acrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun someone who writes plays SYN  dramatist
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