Elements, Techniques and Literary Devices of Drama

A literary work that tells a story and is meant to be acted out and performed.

• Act

• Drama

• Scene

• Script

A major section of a play, usually made up of several scenes.

• Act

• Line

• Scene

• Stage Directions

The shaping of a text's meaning by another text.

• Internet

• Intertext

• Interface

• Hypertext

The written text and lines.

• Cast

• Director

• Monologue

• Script

Actors who act in the play, list of actors.

• Dialogue

• Cast

• Set

• Setting

Parts spoken by the actors, their talking lines.

• Dialogue

• Director

• Plot

• Setting

The main sequence of events.

• Plot

• Prologue

• Set

• Setting

It is where and when the story takes place.

• Director

• Props

• Set

• Setting

The person who helps the actors.

• Dialogue

• Director

• Props

• Set

A technique of writer that gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.

• Foreshadowing

• Figures of Speech

• Flashback

• Prologue