Elements of Drama

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Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,.

Multiple Choice

What are the five elements of PLOT found in fiction AND drama?

• Beginning,

  middle,

  top,

  end,

  finale

• Extension,

  Ladder,

  Conflict,

  Falling Ladder,

  Soliloquy

• Exposition,

  Rising Action,

  Climax,

  Falling Action,

  Resolution

Multiple Choice

The author of a drama is usually called a...

• poet

• drama

• playwright

• scriptwriter

Multiple Choice

Actors are the __________ in a drama.

• setting

• props

• characters

• dialogue

Multiple Choice

What is the following excerpt an example of?

(Billy enters the stage from the left humming a tune and skipping over to the couch, showing pure enjoyment).

• dialogue

• plot

• monologue

• stage directions

Multiple Select

Which of the following are examples of a prop?

(Select all that apply)

• table

• cup

• lamp

• purse

Multiple Choice

Scenes in a drama show the change in _________.

• characters

• setting

• conflict

• prop

Multiple Choice

Stage directions are written___________.

• stories

• dialogue

• instructions

• props

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