Drama🎭 Flashcards
Elements of drama
Definition
Cast
Performers
Act
Main divisions
Scene
Smaller divisions
Setting
Place and time
Dialouge
Lines spoken
Stage directions
Directions telling characters how to speak or act how sound lighting and props are used
Time and place
Where the story takes place
Mood or atmosphere
A setting might make a character relaxed cheerful anxious fearful or angry
Plot
Acts and scenes change in setting
Exposition
Introduces the characters setting and conflict
Rising action
Events lead to the climax
Climax
Turning point conflict highest
Falling action
Leads to resolution
Dialogue
Line spoken in between two or more people
Idiom
Common phrase that has a different meaning
Point of view
Characters perspective
Monologue
Speech given by one actor
SOLILOQUY
Character reveals thoughts and feelings to the audience
Aside
Comment made to the audience, not heard by other characters
Dramatic irony
Audience knows more than the characters do
Verbal irony
Character says the opposite of what he or she really means
Theme
Alluded to in the title and at the beginning of the play
