Name:___________________________________ Class: ______________
Elements of Drama Notes
Unit 5
A ______________ is a story written to be ___________________ by
____________ in front of an _______________________.
A drama has similar elements to any story. It will contain the following:
1. _____________________- fictional people
2. _____________________- time a place
3. _____________________- a problem the characters face
4. _____________________- a series of actions that build to the climax
5. _____________________- the highest point of tension in the story
6. _____________________- the ending of the story
7. _____________________- the insight about life
The writer of a drama is called the ________________ or ________________.
The story is not written like other stories. The written text is called a
____________. It contains the following elements:
Dialogue
Stage
Directions
Acts
Scenes
Sets/Scenery
Props
There are two types of Drama
Comedy
Tragedy
________________ endings
_________________ of a great
person
shows __________________
has a _______________ hero
entertained but could also express
meant to _______________ and
_______________ ideas about human
_______________ with stories of
_________________.
legendary figures.
Drama came from _________________ _____________________.
Then it moved to ____________________ in the late 1500s and early 1600s.
_____________________ __________________________ was perhaps the
greatest playwright of all time.
Todays drama is depicted in many formats:
Dialogue in Drama can change. The following are forms of dialogue that can be
present in a play.
Monologue
Soliloquy
Aside
In drama we start to see more _________________ characters. They show
their strengths and weaknesses and experience a variety of
_____________________.
Conflicts can also be more complex.
External Conflict
1.
2.
3.
Internal Conflict
1.
All elements of drama work together to create an illusion of ________________,
which is known as the ________________ ___________________. These
elements also work to express a ___________________, or central idea about
life.