Elements of Drama

A literary work written in a play format (script).

• Stage Directions

• Drama

• Playwright

• Act

Objects that are used to help tell the story.

• Props

• Stage Directions

• Characters

• Actors

The words that the characters say aloud.

• Drama

• Act

• Stage Directions

• Dialogue

The people, animals, or things that the story is about.

• Scene

• Drama

• Characters

• Actors

Directions that tell the actors what to do.

• Act

• Set

• Stage Directions

• Dialogue

The author of the drama.

• Drama

• Playwright

• Actors

• Characters

The main sections of a drama, kind of like chapters in a book.

• Act

• Scene

• Set

• Props

Smaller sections within an act that take place in one setting.

• Drama

• Set

• Scene

• Act

The people pretending to be the characters.

• Characters

• Actors

• Playwright

• Dialogue

The background that helps show the setting.

• Set

• Props

• Drama

• Stage Directions