GROUP IV

DRAMATIC POETRY
- a story which is recited or sung

-Drama written in verse which is meant to be spoken and performed by actors in front of an audience

ELEMENTS OF DRAMA

1. Plot- this is what happens in the play

2. Theme- refers to the meaning of the play

3. Characters- the people (sometimes animals or ideas) portrayed by the actors in the play

4. Dialogue- the words written by the playwright and spoken by the characters in the play

5. Spectacle- everything that the audience sees as they watch the play.

ELEMENTS OF SCRIPT

1. Sluglines or Scene Headings - come at the beginning of each scene.

2. Characters - people in a story ; they are referred to and described by their character names

3. Action - refers to all the descriptions within a scene concerning the location, the movements of the
characters, or any other important plot points

4. Dialogue - refers to the words spoken by the characters.

5. Parentheticals / Stage Directions - adverbs or adverbial phrases which describe the movements or emotions
of a character during a piece of dialogue

6. Transitions - mark the end of a scene,describing the transition from one scene to the next

DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES / DRAMATIC DEVICES

1. Speech directions - words in brackets that tell the actor how to say the lines.

2. Asides - when a character temporarily turns away from another character and speaks directly to the audience.

3. Entrance and exits

*It is important to notice when characters exit and enter a scene. Pay particular attention to what is being said as
they enter or what they say as they leave.

4. Scenes and Acts

*It is important to pay attention to when a playwright chooses to end a scene and an Act (a number of scenes). It
is usually significant in building audience expectations of what is to come.

5. Symbolism - when an object is used to represent something else

6. Stage Directions - they tell us what should be happening on stage and will often include clues
7. Off-stage - noises off-stage may indicate the coming of conflict, of something bad likely to happen.

8. Recurring imagery - repeated words, phrases and images that help create a sense of mood or a key theme.

9. Soliloquy - when a character is alone on stage and speaks out his or her thoughts aloud

10. Language and length - how much or little is said by characters. Playwrights will often change the pace
(slowing down or speeding up) by how the characters speak.

TYPES OF DRAMATIC POETRY

1. Tragedy
-Drama that has a tragic ending

2. Comedy
-Ends happily

3. Tragicomedy
-Representing some action in which serious and comic scenes are blended
-A composition part taking of the nature both of tragedy and comedy

4. Farce
-a form of comic theater characterized by mistaken identity and confusion within a dignified setting.
-to entertain an audience with situations that are unlikely to happen, or extravagant in nature

5. Satire
-Makes fun of the stupid things humans do
- focuses on ridiculing characters or killjoys,

6. Fantasy
-creating unrealistic images
-fiction characterized by highly fanciful or supernatural elements

7. Melodrama
-a drama characterized by exaggerated emotions

FORMS OF DRAMATIC POETRY

1. Dramatic Monologue
-a poem written in the form of a speech of an individual character

2. Soliloquy
-A passage spoken by a speaker in a poem or a character in a play

3. Character Sketch
-Short description of character based on their traits