ELEMENTS OF DRAMA 4TH GRADE

What is drama?

• trouble caused by "friends"
• the written words and directions for actors to follow
• the characters that perform in a play
• a story that is written to be performed or acted out

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.

Acts divided into smaller sections...

• Scene
• Act
• Script
• Excerpt

What are instructions that tell the actors what to do?

• Actors

• Dialogue

• Setting

• Stage Directions

This is where and when the play takes place.

• Dialogue

• Setting

• Drama

• Theme

What is theme?

• The mood

• The message

• The setting

• The drama

What is the description at the beginning of the play do?

• Tells you about the actors.

• Tells you where you can go to the bathroom.

• Tells you background information about the story.

• Tells you to turn your phones off.

The sequence of events in a play.

• Plot

• Sets

• Stage Directions

Give audience information about what is happening in a play.

• Script

• Stage Directions

• Narrator