Elements of Drama

1. Drama

2. Form 3 groups and assign them a scenario to
portray.
• Group 1 with action, no dialogue
• Group 2 with dialogue, no action
• Group 3 with dialogue, no emotion

3. • Describe the performance of each group. What did they
perform?
• What can you say about their performance? Is it a good
one or not? Why do you say so?
• Do you think there is something missing in their
performance?
• Do you think we can still improve their performance?
How?
• Do you think there will be a significant change if they
performed it with additional elements?
• Therefore, what can you assert from this activity?

4. Elements
of Drama

5. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, you should be able to:
• Identify the elements of Drama (Literary
Elements)
• Answer activities regarding the Literary
Elements of drama
• Construct a draft script for a one-act play

6. Learning Competencies
• identify the various elements, techniques, and literary devices in
drama
• understand intertextuality as a technique of drama conceptualize a
character/setting/plot for a one-act play
• explore different staging modalities vis-à-vis envisioning the
script
• write short exercises involving character, dialogue, plot, and other
elements of drama
• write at least one scene for one-act play applying the various
elements, techniques, and literary devices

7. Elements of Drama

8. Elements of Drama
❑Literary Element
❑Technical elements
❑Performance Elements

9. Literary Elements of Drama
1.Script ❑The written product of
the playwright
❑It contains the
dialogues, descriptions
and stage directions

10. Stage direction
❑an instruction in the text of a
play, especially one indicating
the movement, position, or tone
of an actor, or the sound effects
and lighting

11. Literary Elements of Drama
2.plot ❑a literary term used to
describe the events that
make up a story, or the
main part of a story

12. exposition
Rising action
climax
Falling action
resolution

13. acts
❑ major division of drama
scenes
❑refer to the actual action that takes
place in a specific and single setting and
moment in time

15. Literary Elements of Drama
3.Characters
❑Beings who inhabit the story
❑Sometimes they are actual people
but just as often, they can be
anything

16. Flat and round
Static and dynamic
Antagonist and protagonist
Confidante an foil

19. Flat and round
Static and dynamic

22. Flat and round
Static and dynamic
Antagonist and protagonist
Confidante and foil

25. Literary Elements of Drama
4.settings
❑The time and place or the locale
where the story of the play is
situated

26. sociological
❑Cultural, economic, and
political attributes of a place
❑Their beliefs, norms, and
traditions about the society

27. physical
❑place where the action occurs
in the novel. It is described with
at least some of the five
senses—sight, hearing, touch,
smell, and taste

28. psychological
❑Mood of the place used as
setting
❑Sad, cheerful, scary

32. Literary Elements of Drama
4.Dialogue

34. Literary Elements of Drama
4.Dialogue
❑ exchange of spoken words
between two or more characters
in a book, play, or other written
work

35. Literary Elements of Drama
5.monologue

37. Literary Elements of Drama
5.monologue
❑speech given by a single
character in a story. In drama, it is
the vocalization of a character's
thoughts

38. Literary Elements of Drama
5.conflict
❑generally occurs when a character cannot
achieve an objective due to an obstacle
❑This obstacle may be internal or external –
between characters or between characters
and their environment

39. Man vs man
Man vs himself
Man vs nature
Man vs society
Man vs supernatural
Man vs technology

46. Literary Elements of Drama
6.Theme
❑what the author is trying to convey — in
other words, the central idea of the story

47. INTERTEXTUALITY
❑text's relation with other texts
❑Creation of idea influenced by
other text or shaping/making a
text meaning by another text