Drama Terms

Drama is also called a ...

• script

• play

• poetry

• book

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.3

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

• stanzas

• lines

• script

• acts

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

______ is the items the actors will use on stage.

• playwright

• characters

• items

• props

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.5

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.3

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

• dialogue

• stage directions

• lines

• actions

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

the time or place

• stage directions

• play

• setting

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.5.10

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

a change in the setting

• play

• scene

• drama

• act

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.3

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

• frog

• princess

• character

• narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6