Structural Elements

What is meter?

• A form of measurement

• The reason something is written

• The characters in the play

• A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

What is plot?

• where and when a story takes place

• the characters in a story

• the sequence of events in a story

• words that rhyme

Where would you find stanzas?

• story

• poetry

• drama

• drama and story

A group of words together in one line of a poem is....

• line break

• verse/line

• stanza

1. Relating to the construction or main parts of a building.

• extensive

• affiliated

• structural

• indivisible

• revolutionary

What are dialogue, stage directions, cast of characters, and setting in a play called?

• descriptions

• structural elements

• title

Why are all of these structural elements important in a play?

• They are not important.

• Some of them are important like setting and cast of characters.

• They all work together to help you understand what an audience will experience.

A curved structure that serves as an opening and as support.

• arch

• authentic

• modest

• grave

Which word means: an open cross-braced framework used to support an elevated structure such as a bridge?

• emanations

• trestle

• vacant

• quiver

Which structural element below would be defined as a list with descriptions about each character?

• Descriptions

• Cast of characters

• Stage Directions

• Dioalogue