Identify
BOY: A 13-year-old
MOTHER: a peasant
FATHER: a peasant
BANKER: a wealthy old man
MANDARIN: a government official
NARRATOR: a person dressed in black holding a stick with a small plastic fly attached to the end of a wire
What is cast of characters?
Story that is performed on stage for a live audience.
What is a play or drama?
What do you find in the exposition?
Characters and Setting
Divides the acts each time the setting changes
What are scenes?
MAYOR: (Turning to his Clerks; pointing to the Miller and his Son.)
What are stage directions?
Divides play into smaller parts, like chapters in a book
What are acts?
What does it mean to hype up the problem?
Suspense
A person who is not a character in the play, but tells the audience what is happening
Who is a narrator?
The Fly
What is a script title?
The conversation between 2 or more characters
What is dialogue?
What is the definition of Resolution?
Where the story ends or problem is solved
Where and when the story takes place
What is setting?
(The scene opens with The Miller and his Son driving their donkey across the bridge. They go to the Fair.)
What is setting?
The author of a play
Who is a playwright?
What does Climax mean?
The main problem of the story
1. Exposition
2. Rising Action
3. Climax
4. Falling Action
5. Resolution
What is plot?
suitcase, bed, fly, soccer ball, donkey
What are props?
The paper that has the actors lines to read
What is a script?
Where do you find "hope" in the story?
Falling Action
Tells the actors what to do or how to say something.
What are stage directions?