Drama Elements 1
A story that actors perform on stage for a live audience.
What is a drama?
Describes where and when the story or play happens.
What is the setting?
These are written using parenthesis and/or brackets.
What are stage directions?
The ending or solution to the problem that occurs in the play.
What is the resolution?
The person who writes a drama.
Playwright
The series of events in a drama.
What is the plot?
The words the actor is supposed to say.
What are the lines?
An actor on stage doesn't want another actor(s) to hear him when he talks to the audience.
What is the aside?
Where things dramatically change (good or bad) in a story; also known as the turning point story.
What is the climax?
The two types of drama. Tell me what type are we reading in class.
Tragedy and Comedy
The problem, sometimes between two characters, in a story or play.
What is the conflict?
The largest part or section of the play that is followed by smaller sections.
What is an act?
Conversations between actors in a play/story.
What is dialogue?
The entire text of the play.
What is the script?
This is the problem or conflict that kick starts a story.
What is Inciting Incident?
These tell actors where to stand or what to do while onstage.
What are stage directions?
A person who writes/authors a play.
What is a playwright?
A list of the actors in a play.
What is the cast of characters?
The feeling or building of suspense in a story.
What is the rising action?
A long speech given by one actor on stage.
What is Monologue?
The items used used by actors to enhance the action.
What are props?
The small parts of the play that change often.
What are scenes?
The lesson or message you learn in a story or play.
What is the theme?
When the story starts to slow down and head toward the final ending.
What is the falling action?
An airline pilot is afraid of heights. Tell me which type of irony this is and why.
Situational irony; it is the opposite of what a person would expect. If someone is afaid of heights the likelihood they would fly an airplane are slim to none.