creative writing

drama

comes from the greek word “dran” means “to do” or “ to act”

theatre

the place where the ancient greeks sat to watch plays, and is translated as “seeing place”

aristotle

greek philosopher and his six elements; plot, theme, characters, dialogue, music or rhythm, and spectacle

plot

what happen in the play/ action in the play

theme

meaning of the play

characters

people portrayed by the actors

dialogue

spoken by the characters in the play

music or rhythm

featured in drama or the actors voices as they speak

spectacles

visual elements of a play

convention

techniques used by the playwright to create the desired stylistic effects

genre

type of plays

audience

group of people who watch the plays

exposition

beginning of the story

rising action

character attempt to solve the problems

climax

the turning point of the story

falling action

action and events that occur after the climax

resolution

end of the story

initial incident

gets the story going

preliminary

whatever takes place before the action of the play that is directly related to the play

denouement

conclusion of the story

literary elements

building blocks that authors use to create stories

technical elements

behind-the-scenes components used to create visual, physical, and auditory environment of a production

performance elements

practical tools and techniques that actors and directors use to bring a script to life

characterization

the way an author creates, develops, and reveals the personality of the characters

direct characterization

directly telling to the reader or audience

indirect characterization

shows through the actions, speech and interactions for the reader to infer

one act play

story that has no narrator and 10-40 pages long only and it has one location only

intertexuality

literary device that creates an interrelationship between text and generated related understanding in separate works

allusion

object from unrelated context is referred to indirectly

quotation

repetition of one expression from a quoted expression that is well-known

calque

borrowed from another language by literal word for word

plagiarism

academic dishonoesty

translation

communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text

parody

AKA spoof or lampoon works that is created to imitate or make fun

pastiche

celebrates rather than mocks

appropriation

re-imagination of a well-known text to change its meanings

adaptation

stage play based on a written work