Elements of Drama

The major sections of a play

• Acts

• Scene

• Drama

• Scripts

cast of characters

• actor

• actress

• lists each character in a play.

• characters

Conversation between two or more characters

• Monologue

• Conversation

• Dialect

• Dialogue

A playwright is...

• Someone that directs a film.

• A writer of plays

• An audience member.

the action in a play that takes place in a single setting

• Script

• Act

• Scene

• Excerpt

A character to explain what is happening is a

• director

• instructor

• professor

• narrator

A script is

• the written text of a play

• story

• essay

• movie

Stage direction...

• tell the actors what to do and how to speak

• is the time and place of a scene.

A drama is a play or story that is acted out by people in a performance

• True

• False