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