Plot
Drama Elements
Point of View (POV)
Author's Purpose
100
a series of events
What is a plot?
100
people, animals and creatures in a literary work
What are characters?
100
the perspective from which a literary work is told
What is point of view?
100
the reasin why the author wrote whay he wrote
What is the author's purpose?
200
an event that leads to the climax
What is the rising action?
200
the time and place of the literary work
What is the setting?
200
the narrator is in the story
What is 1st person?
200
when the author writes for the readers enjoyment or amusement
What is to entertain?
300
an event that leads to the resolution
What is the falling action?
300
these divide the drama (play)
What are acts?
300
the narrator is not in story, telling the story from the outside looking in
What is 3rd person
300
when the author writes to provide information
What is to inform?
400
this is introduced between the exposition and rising action
What is the conflict?
400
these divide the acts
What are scenes?
400
the narrator is in the story and state the facts and includes no feelings
What is 1st person objective?
400
when the author writes to get the reader to do or believe something
What is to persuade?
500
the point when the problem is solved
What is the climax?
500
these give instructions to the performers
What are stage directions?
500
the narrator is on the outside looking in and they know the thoughts of feelings of everyone in story
What is 3rd person omniscient?
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