Elements of Drama

a person who writes plays

• poet

• playwright

• author

• playwrite

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a group of scenes that divides the play, opera, or other drama into important parts of the story (hint: there can be 1-5 of these)

• chapter

• monologue

• scene

• act

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

a division of an act presenting continuous action in one place, a single situation, or unit of dialogue

• scene

• act

• chapter

• prologue

a dramatic convention in which a speech is given by a single character, either alone or to others

• dialogue

• soliloquy

• monologue

• prologue

a dramatic convention in which a speech is given by a character while or as if alone; literally, "talking to oneself."

• soliloquy

• monologue

• dialogue

• prologue

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

a playwright’s descriptive comments that provide information about characters’ dialogue, setting, and actions.

• act

• dialogue

• stage directions

• scene

the line spoken between characters in a play in order to establish plot, characters, and other elements

• dialogue

• stage directions

• monologue

• soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.W.9-10.3B

a dramatic device in which a character says or does something that they do not fully grasp but is understood by the audience.

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• dramatic irony

• theme

a literary technique for implying, through plot or character, that the actual situation is quite different from the one presented

• theme

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• situational irony

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

an idea that recurs in a work of art or literature

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• theme

• situational irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2