Lines of the text that the characters speak.
What is an dialogue?
The background of the play?
What is the scenery?
They can be detailed or simple, and help set the style of the play.
What is the costumes?
A conversation among characters.
What is a dialogue?
A story written to be acted in front of an audience.
Someone who gives the audience information about what is happening in the play?
What is a narrator?
Plays broken into smaller parts.
What are acts?
Items that the characters carry or handle on the stage.
What are props?
Acts are broken down into smaller parts.
What are scenes?
The written version of a drama.
What is a Script?
The text of a play, including the dialogue the actors speak and stage directions.
What is a script?
Notes to the actors, directors, and readers.
What are stage directions?
Stage directions reveal information about ______, _______, and ________.
What are where to go, how to move, and when to say their lines?
The five basic elements of drama.
What are dialogue, stage directions, script, act, and scene?
The setting of a Drama.
What is Scene?
Stories that can be acted out in front of people or an audience.
What is a Drama?
Describe how stage directions are written.
italicized or with brackets
The three things of scene design in a play.
What are the sets, costumes, and props?
What is a synonym for conflict?
What is Problem?
Although drama shares many elements with stories, essays, and poetry it is different because...
What is designed to be performed for an audience?
What Greek word does drama come from and what does it mean?
dran which means to do or act
What do stage directions describe?
What is the scenery, characters, and actions.
A synonym for the turning point in a plot diagram.
What is the Climax?
The three ways a character's personality is revealed.
What is how a character looks, what the character says, and how the character acts?
The Acts of a play describe:
A. Different settings
B. Different Times
C. Different Characters
What is B. Different Times?