Elements of Drama

The major sections of a play

• Acts
• Scene
• Drama
• Script

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CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

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Items used on stage to help actors tell a story

• Flats
• Sets
• Props
• Costumes

Conversation between two or more characters

• Monologue
• Dialect
• Conversation
• Dialogue

A playwright is...

• Someone that directs a film.
• An audience member.
• A writer of plays.

Provides information such as the time and place of the story or description of the setting.

• Stage Direction
• Foreshadow
• Props
• Playwright

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CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Acts divided into smaller sections...

• Scene
• Act
• Script
• Excerpt

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CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Stage directions are the words written that appear in parentheses throughout the play and these words tell the characters how to _________________.

• do the play
• use dialogue
• act
• sing

a conversation between two or more characters where words are spoken and information is given.

• Monologue
• Dialogue
• Foil
• Soliloquy

Stage direction

• a major division of a play, like parts of a book.
• a minor division of the play, like chapters.
  
• list of people who perform in the play-includes descriptions and motivations.
  
• information given in dialogue or at the beginning that explains to the performers and audience how the play should be performed.
  

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CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is the meaning of dialogue?

• Conversations between two or more characters
• The internal monolgue of a character
• A strugle that takes place in a story
• The gestures an actor usses in a drama