1. Drama - a story written to be performed by actors
Drama Unit
Drama - a story written to be performed by actors

2. Tragedy
A sad story that shows the downfall or death of a tragic hero, or main character
Why did he have to die?!

3. Hahaha! What a great play!
Comedy
A funny story with a happy ending
Hahaha! What a great play!

4. Act Large units that dramas are divided into
The circle is the whole play and the four parts are the acts

5. Scene Smaller units that acts are divided into Blue: Acts
White: Scenes

6. Playwright
The author of a play

7. Stage Directions
Tell how the play is to be performed, or staged

8. Script The text of the play
Romeo. Father, what news? What is the Prince’s doom?
What sorrow craves acquaintance at my hand
That I yet know not?
Friar. Too familiar
Is my dear son with such sour company.
I bring thee tidings of the Prince’s doom.

9. Example: Madea is a tragic hero in the play "Madea goes to Jail"
A main character
Example: Madea is a tragic hero in the play "Madea goes to Jail"

10. Madea's Tragic Flaw is that she gets into
A defect in a character
Example:
Madea's Tragic Flaw is that she gets into
too much trouble

11. Historical Context
The background of the era in which the play is set or written

12. Chorus
A group of performers who commented on the action

13. Blank Verse
Unrhymed poetry written in a meter called iambic pentameter

14. Set Constructions that show where the drama takes place
A set could be an apartment building

15. Props A prop can be a toy racecar.
Movable objects that are used by the actors onstage
A prop can be a toy racecar.

16. Dramatic Effect
A vivid illusion of reality

17. Blah blah blah. Will she ever finish her monologue?
Dramatic Speeches
Monologue – a long, uninterrupted speech
Soliloquy – a short or long uninterrupted speech
Aside – a brief remark
Blah blah blah. Will she ever finish her monologue?

18. Dramatic Irony
There is a contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true

19. Comic Relief
A technique that is used to interrupt a serious part of a literary work by introducing a humorous character or situation

20. Pun
A play on words involving a word with two or more different meanings or two words that sound alike but have different meanings

21. Foil
A character who provides a contrast to another character

22. Terms for Review… Review!!! Dialogue Plot : Exposition Climax
Resolution
Conflict:
Internal Conflict
External Conflict
Character
Characterization
Setting
Point of View:
1st person
3rd person limited
Omniscient
Theme
Review!!!