Elements of a Drama

Tells the characters what to do and where to go.

• Stage Directions

• Scene

• Characters

• Plot

What the characters say.

• Drama

• Setting

• Dialogue

• Stage Directions

A group of connected scenes.

• Scene

• Act

• Setting

• Conflict

Smaller sections of an act, each scene continues from the last one to help build the plot.

• Act

• Tone

• Setting

• Scene

What happens in the story.

• Theme

• Plot

• Characters

• Voice

A play or story that is meant to be acted out of stage in front of an audience.

• Nonfiction text

• Fiction text

• Drama

• Conflict

When and where the story takes place.

• Scene

• Setting

• Act

• Theme

The people and animals that are part of the story.

• Scenes

• Conflicts

• Tones

• Characters

The lesson or message the author is trying to convey.

• Drama

• Conflict

• Theme

• Plot

In literature, the opposition of persons or forces that bring about dramatic action central to the plot of the story. (The main problem of the story).

• Conflict

• Theme

• Plot

• Dialogue