Elements of Plays

How is drama different from other kinds of fiction?

• Drama can have only one setting. Other kinds of fiction can have many settings.

• Drama has a plot. Other kinds of fiction use monologues instead of plots.

• Drama has more characters than other kinds of fiction.

• Drama is written to be performed by actors for an audience.

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Conversation between two or more characters

• Monologue
• Dialect
• Conversation
• Dialogue

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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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Which of the following can be found within a script?

• Acts and scenes
• Dialogue
• Setting description
• All of the above

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What is Drama?

• A story that makes you cry. 
• A story being acted out by an audience.
• A story that can only be told in one specific way. 

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What do you call the people that act in a play?

• Characters
• Artists
• Crew

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Instructions that tell the actor what to do are known as 

• script
• Stage Directions
• Cast of characters

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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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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

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Who are the characters in a drama?

• Play that presents a serious situation
• The struggle between opposing forces
• This is what the acts are broken up into
• People who are in a story actors in a play

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