Dramatic Elements

Drama is also called a ...

• script

• play

• poetry

• book

_____ is the written play that includes: the characters, lines of dialogue, and stage directions.

• stanzas

• lines

• script

• acts

______ is the items the actors will use on stage.

• playwright

• characters

• items

• props

Playwright

• the person who wrote the play: like the author of a book

• the items used on stage

• a character that gives additional information and fills in details

• the lines of the script that the actors speak out loud

Stage Directions

• specific instructions to the actors

• part of an act where specific events happen

• the lines of the script that the actors speak out loud

• piece of writing that tells a story

Dialogue

• the main sections of a drama, like chapters of a book

• all of these things help us understand the character traits

• the lines of the script that the actors speak out loud

• the person who wrote the play; like the author of a book

 "Exit stage left"...this is an example of

• dialogue

• stage directions

• lines

• actions

the time or place

• stage directions

• play

• setting

• plot

a change in the setting

• play

• scene

• drama

• act

the person that tells the story and gives additional information and fills in details about characters

• frog

• princess

• character

• narrator