10/21 Elements of Drama Last Leaf

Match

Match the following

• What do you call when and where the play takes place?

• What do you call the main sequence of events?

• What are the lines of parts that are spoken by the actors called?

• What do you call the written instructions that tell an actor what to do while on stage?

• Chapters or chunks of the story are called?

setting

plot

dialogue

stage directions

acts

• setting

• plot

• dialogue

• stage directions

• acts

Dramas are like any other text that we have read.

Dramas have:

Plot
Setting
Characters
Conflict: Internal and external
Dialogue
Themes
Acts: like chapters in a book
Scenes: are the paragraphs that make up an act

Open Ended

Why did the author include the stage directions in line 30?

Open Ended

Why did the author include the stage directions in line 32?