Elements of Drama
The series of related events that make up a story.
What is plot?
What is it called when characters speak?
Dialogue
Any work meant to be performed for an audience.
What is drama?
A playwright's written instructions about how actors should move and behave.
What are stage directions?
A struggle between a character and opposing characters or opposing forces.
What is conflict?
What do stage directions tell us?
What the characters are doing
What are character tags?
labels before lines of dialogue that show us which character is speaking
Any work meant to be performed for an audience.
What is drama?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is setting?
Who tells us the story of a play?
Narrator
Stage Directions
written instructions telling the actors what to do
The opposite of a comedy. Usually has a sad ending.
What is tragedy?
A person (or an animal) in a literary work
What is character?
What does a script tell us?
the text of the play
The opposite of a comedy. Usually has a sad ending.
What is tragedy?
The words characters speak.
What is dialogue?
The words characters speak.
What is dialogue?
What is the difference between an act and a scene?
An Act is a chapter in a play that contains scenes.
A scene is the action that takes place in a single setting
Meant to be performed live, on a stage.
What is theatrical drama?
What is a drama or play
a story performed by actors on a stage