21st Century Literature

• Drama is also called play
• Drama


  it is meant to be performed on a stage in front of a live audience.
• Dran


  Greek word means "to do" or "to act"
• Six Structural Elements of Drama

  • Plot
  • Cast of Characters
  • Script
  • Dialogue
  • Stage Direction
  • Theme
• Plot


  it is the playwright's arrangement of events in the story
• In Media Res


  It start at the middle or in the climax of the story.
• Foreshadowing


  it gives an advance hint of what comes later in the story.
• Gustav Freytag


  The inventor of 5 stages of Freytag's Pyramid
• Exposition it is the start of the story.
• Rising Action


  The series of conflicts and crises in the story led to the climax
• Climax (Turning Point)


  in the most intense moment where the reader or audience wonders what will happen next.
• Falling Action


  The events and complications begin to resolve themselves.
• Resolution or Denouement


  The conclusion. The untangling of events in the story
• Cast of Characters


  all the people who act in the play
• Protagonist


  it is also know as Main Character
• Antagonist


  A character that opposes the main character
• Script


  is a piece of writing in the form of drama
• Script


  it is the compilation of the dialogue between characters and stage direction
• Stage Direction


  Instruction is written into a script of a play, indicating stage actions, movements of performers, or production requirements
• Theme


  the central idea, topic, or point of a story, essay, or narrative is its theme
• It is a idea that sparks when one is inspired to write.

  Concept
• Conceptualization


  It is a process of forming a concept or an idea
• Draft


  It is the preliminary and uncorrected version of the drama
• Jean-Luc Godard


  according to him, "a story has a beginning, middle, and end, but not necessarily in that order".
• Intertextuality


  This is a way of interpreting texts which focuses on the idea of texts' borrowing words and concepts from each other.
• Self-critiquing


  Means you will evaluate your own work
• Peer-critiquing


  is asking another person to read your work and give feedbacks
• revision


  it is an act of reading and making changes through editing or modifying
• Proofreading


  it is correcting minor errors that are made i your grammar and mechanics
• Publishing 


  It's a process of making drama available to the readers or audience
• Self-publishing


  authors publishing his or her story through online
• Publishing House


  This is the place when submitting the work you made.