2. Drama is a composition
in prose form that
presents a story entirely
told in dialogue and
action and written with
the intention of its
eventual performance
before an audience.
3. Drama has a two-fold nature:
LITERATURE and THEATRE.
6. Setting identifies the time and place in which the
events occur. It consists of the historical period, the
moment, day and season in which the incidents
take place. It also includes the sceneries in the
performance which are usually found in the
preliminary descriptions.
7. Characters are the people in the play and thus
considered as the principal material in a drama.
8. PHYSICAL SOCIAL
Physical identifies peripheral Social embraces all aspects
facts such as age, sexual that can be gleaned from
category, size, race and color. the character’s world or
It deals with external environment as
attributes which may be
exemplified by the
envisaged from the
economic status,
description of the playwright
or deduced from what the occupation or trade, creed,
characters say or what other familial affiliation of the
characters verbalize about his characters.
appearance.
9. PSYCHOLOGICAL MORAL
Psychological discloses the Moral discloses the
inner mechanism of the mind
of the character as decisions of the characters,
exemplified by his habitual either socially acceptable
responses, attitudes, or not, exposing their
longings, purposes, likes and
dislikes. It is considered as the intentions, thus projecting
most indispensable level of what is upright or not.
character categorization
because routines and
emotions, thoughts, attitude
and behavior enable the
readers to know the character
intrinsically.
10. Plot lays out the series of events that form the
entirety of the play. It serves as a structural
framework which brings the events to a cohesive
form and sense.
11. NATURAL PLOT EPISODIC PLOT
Natural Plot is a Episodic Plot – each
chronological sequence of episode independently
events arrangement where comprises a setting,
actions continuously take climax, and resolution;
place as an end result of therefore, a full story in
the previous action itself is formed.
13. EXPOSITION
Exposition is the point where
the playwright commences
his story. It reveals the
identity of story’s initial crisis.
14. COMPLICATIONS CRISIS
Complications bring Crisis reveals the peak of
changes and alterations in anticipation in the series of
the movement of the incidents.
action which take place
when discovery of novel
information, unexpected
alteration of plan, choosing
between two courses of
action or preface of new
ideas are revealed.
15. OBLIGATORY SCENE DISCOVERY
Obligatory Scene Discovery discloses points
identifies the open collision which are previously
between two opposing unknown, characterized as
characters or forces. something mysterious,
strange, unfamiliar and
thus revealed through
objects, persons, facts,
values, or self-discovered.
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17. Theme is considered as the unifying element that
defines the dramatized idea of the play. It is the
over-all sense or implication of the action. It defines
the problem, emphasizes the ethical judgment and
suggest attitude or course of action that eliminates
the crisis is an acceptable way.
18. Style refers to the mode of expression or
presentation of the play which points out the
playwright’s position or viewpoint in life.
19. REALISM NON-REALISM
Realism is an accurate Non-realism is method of
detailed, and life-like presentation identified as
description in a play where something stylized or
things are presented as real theatricalized whereby
as can be set in actual life, artist uses his feral
with dialogues sounding imagination in projecting
like day-to-day his ideas.
conversation.
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21. Tragedy is a type of drama that shows the downfall and
destruction of a noble or outstanding person, traditionally
one who possesses a character weakness called a tragic
flaw. The tragic hero, through choice or circumstance, is
caught up in a sequence of events that inevitably results in
disaster.
22. Comedy is a type of drama intended to interest and amuse
the audience rather than make them deeply concerned
about events that happen. The characters overcome some
difficulties, but they always overcome their ill fortune and
find happiness in the end.
23. Tragicomedy is a play that does not adhere strictly to the
structure of tragedy. This is usually serious play that also has
some of the qualities of comedy. It arouses thought even
with laughter.
24. Farce is a play that brings laughter for the sake of laughter,
usually making use grossly embellished events and
characters. It has very swift movements, has ridiculous
situations, and does not stimulate thought.
25. Melodrama shows events that follow each other rapidly, but seems to be governed
always by chance. The characters are victims in the hands of merciless fate.
