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[2]: You are analyzing a play or screenplay and need names for its parts.,You are teaching dramatic structure.
  caveats[2]: 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[4]: narrative-techniques,poetry-devices,literary-movements,fiction-genres
  category: Literature
  category_slug: literature
  tags: "literature,drama,theater"
  view_count: 0
  entry_count: 14
  fields[2]{section,field,type,example}:
    data,element,string,Plot
    data,description,string,Sequence of events in the play.
data[14]{element,description}:
  Plot,Sequence of events in the play.
  Character,Persons or entities driving the action.
  Setting,Time and place of the action.
  Dialogue,Spoken words between characters.
  Conflict,Struggle between opposing forces.
  Theme,Central idea or message.
  Stage Directions,Instructions for performance and movement.
  Soliloquy,A speech in which a character speaks their thoughts aloud while alone on stage.
  Aside,A brief remark made to the audience or to oneself that other characters on stage do not hear.
  Monologue,"A long speech by one character, usually addressed to others on stage."
  Chorus,"A group that comments on the action, as in Greek tragedy."
  Catharsis,"The emotional release or purification an audience experiences through tragedy, in Aristotle's account."
  Hamartia,The error or flaw that leads to a tragic hero's downfall.
  Dramatic Structure,"The arc of a play: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution, as in Freytag's pyramid."