Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Dialogue, prose, pace & style · Working

Active voice

Also called: active construction

ELI5

Sentence construction in which the subject performs the action.

Used in conversation

“Let’s track the active voice through the outline before rewriting scenes.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Active voice” in story, structure & screenplay conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

Connected terms

  • Passive voiceComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 4

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.