Elements of Drama (parts)
A conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
Scene 2: The Gymnasium
Scene 3: The Coffee Shop (Later That Day)
What are scenes?
The turning point, most intense, or highest tension in the story
What is climax?
A. Pythias returns just before Damon is executed.
B. Two best friends live in ancient Syracuse under a cruel king.
C. The king is so moved he frees both friends and learns the meaning of true friendship.
Two best friends live in ancient Syracuse under a cruel king.
Pythias returns just before Damon is executed.
The king is so moved he frees both friends and learns the meaning of true friendship.
Acts are broken into smaller parts.
What are scenes?
Damon. Oh, Pythias! How terrible to find you here! I wish I could do something to save you!
Pythias. Nothing can save me, Damon, my dear friend. I am prepared to die. But there is one thought that troubles me greatly.
What is dialogue?
A series of events where the main character faces obstacles and conflicts, causing tension to increase.
What is rising action?
A. Anna steps in front of Hans's sword and freezes solid to save Elsa
B. An act of true love by Elsa thaws Anna's body
C. Two royal sisters grow up isolated in a castle after losing their parents
Two royal sisters grow up isolated in a castle after losing their parents
Anna steps in front of Hans's sword and freezes solid to save Elsa
An act of true love by Elsa thaws Anna's body
Where the drama takes place.
What is setting?
(Sound: Iron door opens and shuts. Key in lock.)
(Music: Up full and out.)
What are stage directions?
The conclusion where the main conflict is resolved
What is resolution?
A. Ella goes to the Winter Gala despite her family's objections and her own fears.
B. The "prince" searches for and finds Ella. He commends her for acting courageously and standing up for herself at the Winter Gala.
C. A kind girl suffers under her cruel stepmother after losing her father.
A kind girl suffers under her cruel stepmother after losing her father.
Ella goes to the Winter Gala despite her family's objections and her own fears.
The "prince" searches for and finds Ella. He commends her for acting courageously and standing up for herself at the Winter Gala.
Instructions for actors, directors, and the stage crew, (such as movements, expressions, lighting and sound effects)
What are stage directions?
The play Damon and Pythias takes place in the ancient city of Syracuse, ruled by a powerful and feared tyrant named Dionysius.
What is setting?
The events immediately following the climax, where the consequences unfold and tension begins to decrease.
A. Moana returns the heart to Te Fiti, healing the ocean and islands, and sails home to lead her people as a hero.
B. Moana bravely approaches a fearsome lava monster alone and realizes it is actually the goddess Te Fiti, transformed by the theft of her heart.
C. Moana sets sail to find the demigod Maui after a spreading darkness begins destroying her island's food and resources.
Moana sets sail to find the demigod Maui after a spreading darkness begins destroying her island's food and resources.
Moana bravely approaches a fearsome lava monster alone and realizes it is actually the goddess Te Fiti, transformed by the theft of her heart.
Moana returns the heart to Te Fiti, healing the ocean and islands, and sails home to lead her people as a hero.
A major division in a play- like a chapter
What is an act?
In Damon and Pythias, the entire story is told within this single large structural division of the play — not broken into smaller major sections.
What is one act?
Introduces the setting, main characters, and the initial situation of the story
What is exposition?
A. Jonas escapes the community with Gabriel and finds his way to a place beyond, where real feelings, color, and memories exist in the world once more.
B. Jonas lives in a seemingly perfect community where everyone follows strict rules and all painful memories and emotions have been erased from society.
C. Jonas discovers the dark truth behind his community and decides to flee with the infant Gabriel before he is scheduled to be executed.
Jonas lives in a seemingly perfect community where everyone follows strict rules and all painful memories and emotions have been erased from society.
Jonas discovers the dark truth behind his community and decides to flee with the infant Gabriel before he is scheduled to be executed.
Jonas escapes the community with Gabriel and finds his way to a place beyond, where real feelings, color, and memories exist in the world once more.