Drama Elements

The text of the play

• Setting

• Dialogue

• Character Tags

• Script

The problem in the story

• Conflict

• Setting

• Theme

• Moral

This is where and when the play takes place.

• Setting

• Drama

• Cast

• Day

The moral or lesson in the story.

• Theme

• Conflict

• Character

• Setting

Labels before lines of dialogue to show which character is speaking

• Setting

• Character

• Character Tags

• Narractor

Smaller parts of the play, it helps us know that the setting or characters have changed.

• Scenes

• Acts

• Setting

• Script

Lines of text the character speaks in the play.

• Drama

• Dialogue

• Act

• Cast of Characters

Stories acted out in front of people or an audience; play

• Scenes

• Drama

• Acts

• Script

This person tells the story and informs the "audience", or reader of background info.

• Cast of characters

• Setting

• Main Character

• Narrator

Instructions that tell the actors what to do

• Stage directions

• Narrator

• Drama

• Props