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The Elements of Drama
8th Grade Language Arts
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Learning Targets
Understand how drama provides the reader a different experience than prose (short stories, novels) or poetry
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Drama
Comes from the Greek Word, “Dran”
Means “To do” or “To Act” The Doing/Acting Makes Drama
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Drama…
…is a story told in front of an audience
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Elements of Drama
Playwrite-the author of a play
Actors-the people who perform
Acts-the units of action
Scenes-parts of the acts
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Dramatic Speech Dialogue-
conversation between or among characters
Monologue or soliloquy-long speech by one single character (private thoughts)
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Conflict
The internal or external struggle between opposing forces, ideas, or interests that create dramatic tension.
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Stage Directions
Found in brackets [ ] Describe scenery and
how characters speak
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Theatre
Where a play takes place
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Set
Construction on the stage that shows time/place
Could be called Scenery
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Props
Small movable items that the actors use to make actions look real