CW 2nd Quarter

• Drama is a stage, actions, plays written in radio, television, and film.
• Farce is a comic dramatic genre.
• Melodrama is a dramatic work that concentrates on dialogue.
• Musical drama is a genre that incorporates music.
• Tragedy is a genre which a hero is brought down.
• Tragicomedy is a genre that is both tragic and comic.
• The six Aristotelian elements of drama are plot, character, thought, diction, spectacle, and song.
• Plot in drama occurs events and plays narrates.
• The five primary elements of plot are exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
• Linear plot is a type of plot that has a clear beginning, middle, and end, and is told in a linear fashion.
• Non-linear plot is a type of plot that describes events out of chronological order or presents events.