Elements of Drama

What is drama?

• A story that is acted out in front of people

  or an audience.

• A story that is quietly told between two people.

What are characters?

• Someone who likes to tell stories.

• People or animals in a play.

What is the plot in a play?

• The main event of the play.

• The ending of the play.

What is dialogue?

• The movements characters do in a play.

• The words that characters in a play say to each other.

What is a script?

• A recorded form of the play.

• The written form of the play.

What are lines?

• What actors practice to say for a play.

• When actors dance in a play.

What is the setting in a play?

• What time the play will start.

• Where the story takes place.