{
    "api": "YAML JSON TOON Database",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "format": "json",
    "dataset": {
        "slug": "drama-elements",
        "title": "Elements of Drama",
        "description": "Core components of dramatic works.",
        "summary": "The elements that make up a dramatic work: plot, character, setting, dialogue, conflict, theme and stage directions, plus soliloquy, aside, monologue, the chorus, catharsis, the tragic flaw and the stages of dramatic structure.",
        "use_when": [
            "You are analyzing a play or screenplay and need names for its parts.",
            "You are teaching dramatic structure."
        ],
        "caveats": [
            "Terminology comes largely from Aristotle's Poetics and later European theory; other dramatic traditions describe structure differently.",
            "Hamartia is often translated 'tragic flaw' but originally meant an error or mistake."
        ],
        "related": [
            "narrative-techniques",
            "poetry-devices",
            "literary-movements",
            "fiction-genres"
        ],
        "category": "Literature",
        "category_slug": "literature",
        "tags": "literature,drama,theater",
        "view_count": 0,
        "entry_count": 14,
        "fields": [
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "element",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Plot"
            },
            {
                "section": "data",
                "field": "description",
                "type": "string",
                "example": "Sequence of events in the play."
            }
        ]
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "element": "Plot",
            "description": "Sequence of events in the play."
        },
        {
            "element": "Character",
            "description": "Persons or entities driving the action."
        },
        {
            "element": "Setting",
            "description": "Time and place of the action."
        },
        {
            "element": "Dialogue",
            "description": "Spoken words between characters."
        },
        {
            "element": "Conflict",
            "description": "Struggle between opposing forces."
        },
        {
            "element": "Theme",
            "description": "Central idea or message."
        },
        {
            "element": "Stage Directions",
            "description": "Instructions for performance and movement."
        },
        {
            "element": "Soliloquy",
            "description": "A speech in which a character speaks their thoughts aloud while alone on stage."
        },
        {
            "element": "Aside",
            "description": "A brief remark made to the audience or to oneself that other characters on stage do not hear."
        },
        {
            "element": "Monologue",
            "description": "A long speech by one character, usually addressed to others on stage."
        },
        {
            "element": "Chorus",
            "description": "A group that comments on the action, as in Greek tragedy."
        },
        {
            "element": "Catharsis",
            "description": "The emotional release or purification an audience experiences through tragedy, in Aristotle's account."
        },
        {
            "element": "Hamartia",
            "description": "The error or flaw that leads to a tragic hero's downfall."
        },
        {
            "element": "Dramatic Structure",
            "description": "The arc of a play: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution, as in Freytag's pyramid."
        }
    ]
}