Drama Elements 1
A story that actors perform on stage for a live audience.
What is a drama?
Describes where and when the story or play happens.
What is the setting?
These are written using parenthesis.
What are stage directions?
The ending or solution to the problem that occurs in the play.
What is the resolution?
What are the 2 parts of a simple sentence?
subject and predicate
What happens in the play or story from beginning to end.
What is the plot?
The words the actor is supposed to say.
What are the lines?
Where the acting takes place.
What is the stage?
The main problem and peak excitement in a story.
What is the climax?
What is a sentence fragment?
An incomplete sentence that is missing something
The problem, sometimes between two characters, in a story or play.
What is the conflict?
The largest part or section of the play that is followed by smaller sections.
What is an act?
The words a character says.
What is dialogue?
The entire text of the play.
What is the script?
What is a run-on sentence?
a sentence where two or more independent clauses (complete thoughts) are joined together without proper punctuation
These tell actors where to stand or what to do while onstage.
What are stage directions?
A person who writes/authors a play.
What is a playwright?
A list of the actors in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
The feeling or building of suspense in a story.
What is the rising action?
Which of the following is a run-on sentence?
A) Don't trespass on his land, he may call the police.
B) Michael and Frank found directions to the nearest amusement park.
C) Dented both the fender and the bumper of our new car early this morning.
A) Don't trespass on his land, he may call the police.
The items used used by actors to enhance the action.
What are props?
The small parts of the play that change often.
What are scenes?
The lesson or message in a story or play.
What is the theme?
When the story starts to slow down and the final ending.
What is the falling action?
BONUS!!
In The Year Santa Got Mixed Up, what are some examples of strange requests Santa made after his accident? Provide at least two specific instances.
Open ended