Creative writing

• Drama


  The specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television
• Aristotle's Literary Elements of Drama

  • Character
  • Setting
  • Plot
  • Dialogue
• Character


  The people (sometimes animals or figures) portrayed by the actors in the play
• Types of Characters

  • Protagonist
  • Antagonist
• Protagonist


  A main character who generates the action of a story and engages the reader's interest and empathy
• Antagonist


  A character who opposes the protagonist
• Setting


  Where the action takes place
• Plot


  The action; the basic storyline of the play
• Stages in a plot structure

  • Exposition
  • Rising Action
  • Climax
  • Falling Action
  • Resolution
• Exposition


  Setting the scene
• Rising Action


  Building the tension
• Climax


  The exciting bit
• Falling Action


  Tidying up loose ends
• Resolution


  Ending the story
• Dialogue


  The words written by the playwright and spoken by the characters in the play
• Types of Drama

  • Comedy
  • Tragedy
  • Musical Drama
  • Melodrama
  • Farce
• Comedy


  Lighter in tone than ordinary works, and provide a happy conclusion
• Tragedy


  Use darker themes, such as disaster, pain, and death
• Musical Drama


  Dramatists not only tell their stories through acting and dialogue, but through dance as well as music