8th Gr. Elements of Drama

a play for theater

• drama

• teleplay

• actor

• script

the author or writer of a play

• director

• playwright

• producer

• character

A person or voice that  provided spoken commentary (voice-over) that delivers information about the plot

• narrator

• aside

• producer

• director

A person, animal, being or thing in a story

• character

• actor

• director

• narrator

Characters’ spoken words; conversation

• monologue

• act

• dialogue

• aside

A major section of a play, usually made up of several scenes

• scene

• chapter

• drama

• act

A subdivision of an act that changes for a new time or location; ends when a character(s) leaves the stage

• prologue

• act

• chapter

• scene

Spoken dialogue by a character in a play

• aside

• dialogue

• line

• drama

A long speech given by one character

• dialogue

• monologue

• soliloquy

• prologue

An extended speech given by a character  that expresses inner thoughts aloud to himself and the audience

• soliloquy

• aside

• monologue

• scene