Drama Terms/Parts of a Story

The sequence of events that make up a story.

• Prologue

• Motivation

• Pun

• Plot

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Consists of a character/narrator coming on stage and giving a prologue or explicit background information or themes.

• Comedy

• Prologue

• Chorus/Announcer

• Dialogue

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A brief remark in which a character expresses private thoughts to the audience rather than to other characters.

• Aside

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Comic Relief

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Smaller sections of drama within an act.

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Scene

• Plot

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A story written to be performed by actors in front of an audience.

• Allusion

• Drama/Play

• Dialogue

• Motivation

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A long, uninterrupted speech delivered by a character to other characters who are onstage but remain silent.

• Soliloquy

• Aside

• Speech

• Monologue

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The final outcome of the main complication in a play. Usually, occurs AFTER the climax (the turning point or "crisis"). It is sometimes referred to as the explanation or outcome of a drama that reveals all the secrets and misunderstandings connected to the plot.

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Denouement/ Resolution

• Rising Action

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The first stage of a fictional or dramatic plot, in which necessary background information is provided.

• Climax

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

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An event, conflict or crisis or set of conflicts and crises that constitute the part of a play's plot leading up to the climax.

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

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The main sections that the drama is divided into.

• Scene

• Act

• Dialogue

• Comic Relief

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