Drama Elements

A major division in a play that could have numerous smaller divisions

The various settings/time periods in literature that adds layers of meaning for the viewer.

The person responsible for the lighting and other technical arrangements for a play.

Rules the actor, writer, or director employs to create an effect the audience would understand

A long speech given by a single character, either alone or to others

This is what you call the person who writes a drama for stage.

In a five act play, this may appear in the middle act

Characters who contrast with another to highlight differing characteristics

The universal truth stated or implied in a play, poem, piece of fiction or nonfiction.

Drama and fiction are alike because...

A written version of the speech and actions for performers in a play or film

All plays and fiction have this

The lines spoken between characters that is moves the plot along

Notes in a script that tell a performer how to say or perform lines or scene.

A speech given by a character while or as if alone; literally " talking to oneself"