Elements of a Drama

What is another word for a drama?

• poem

• play

• fable

• realistic fiction

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5C

How is a drama different from other kinds of fiction?

• Drama can have only one setting. Other kinds of fiction can have many settings.

• Drama is written to be performed by actors for an audience.

• Drama has a plot. Other kinds of fiction use monologues instead of plots.

• Drama has more characters than other kinds of fiction.

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CCSS.RL.4.5

Actors learn their parts by reading the ______________________.

• book

• film

• script

• showbill

The play or drama is organized in ______________________.

• chapter

• episodes

• pages and numbers

• acts and scenes

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

Acts are...

• the MAIN parts of a drama

• the smaller SECTIONS of a scene

• stage directions for the actors

• the actors

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

Scenes are...

• the MAIN parts of a drama

• the smaller SECTIONS of an act

• stage directions for the actors

• the actors

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.5

Why are "stage directions" important to a play?

• they give more details about the setting

• they give more details about the characters

• they tell actors how to act/move

• they tell the actors what to say

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Speech between characters in a drama is called:

• lines

• dialogue

• script

• directions

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.W.4.3B

How is the dialogue in a drama different than the dialogue in a narrative story?

• The quotation marks are around all of the text in a drama.

• There is no dialogue in a drama.

• Only the main characters' lines have quotation marks around them.

• The drama's dialogue isn't written inside of quotation marks.

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CCSS.L.4.2B

CCSS.RL.4.5

How are drama and other forms of literature similar?

• They contain the same structure and point-of-view.

• They contain characters, plot, setting, themes, conflict and literary devices.

• They contain a cast of characters and dialogue.

• They are published in a newspaper format.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9