Stage Directions
The background of the play?
What is the scenery?
A conversation among characters.
What is a dialogue?
A story written to be acted in front of an audience.
The bad guy in the play ?
antagonist
Plays broken into smaller parts.
What are acts?
Acts are broken down into smaller parts.
What are scenes?
The written version of a drama.
What is a Script?
When we know more than the characters
Dramatic Irony
Notes to the actors, directors, and readers.
What are stage directions?
The five basic elements of drama.
What are dialogue, stage directions, script, act, and scene?
The person who writes the play ?
Playwright
A character giving a speech to oneself
Soliloquy
Describe how stage directions are written.
What is printed in italics and enclosed in square brackets?
The three types of Irony?
What is Situational irony, Verbal irony, and Dramatic irony?
Although drama shares many elements with stories, essays, and poetry it is different because...
What is designed to be preformed for an audience?
Use of humor to make fun of something serious
Satire
Stage directions also give instruction about _________ and __________.
What is special effects and how actors should move and speak?
The three ways a character's personality is revealed.
What is how a character looks, what the character says, and how the character acts?
People who perform in the play ?
Actors
What genre are we currently working within ?
DRAMA