Drama and Comedy

Drama

Structure

Act(s)

A part of a play or opera.

Scene(s)

A part of a play or film in which the action stays in one place for a continuous period of time.

Chorus

The chorus may be traced back to the dramas of ancient Greece where a group of actors danced, sang and delivered lines.

Act(s)

Introduction (prologue)

The opening of an essay or speech, which typically identifies the topic, arouses interest, and prepares the audience for the development of the thesis.

Development

In composition, the process of adding informative and illustrative details to support the main idea in a paragraph or essay.

Crisis or turning point

The time at which a situation starts to change in an important way.

Complications

Something which makes a situation more difficult, or when it does this.

Denouement

The series of events that follow the plot's climax. It is the conclusion or resolution of the story.

Drama

Plot, sub-plot and setting

Stage directions

A description or instruction in the text of a play which explains how the play should be performed.

Plot

The sequence of events told in a story, plot is also known as narrative structure. There are usually considered to be five elements in a plot line: exposition or background information, rising action (that which complicates the story), climax or crisis, falling action, and resolution.

Sub-plot

A part of a plot of the story of a book or play which develops separately from the main story.

Setting

Time

Place

Drama

Characters

Main

Minor

Hero

The main male character in a book or film who is usually good.

Heroine

The play's main female character.

Antagonist

The antagonist in a work of fiction is the character who opposes the hero, or protagonist. The antagonist, when there is one, provides the story's conflict.

Dramatic techniques

Dialogue

It is a conversational passage in a narrative or play used to advance the plot or develop the characters.

Soliloquy

It is a reflective monologue given by a character when he or she is alone on the stage.

Monologue

A speech or composition presenting both the words or thoughts of a single character.

Asides

Riding aside is riding side saddle with both legs on one side of the horse. When a rider sits with one leg on each side of the horse they are riding astride.

Dialogue

• It creates the action;
• It contributes to theme;
• It gives information about the past and can foreshadow subsequent events;
• It may be built to cause specific reactions in the audience.

Soliloquy