Definitions:

Elements of drama:

 -Act: This is the part of a play or opera which is considered a major division. 

-Scene: A unit of drama/ a part of a play or theme.

-Exposition: This is the background information provided to the audience about the plot,          characters, setting and theme of the play.

-Conflict: This refers to the oppositions or forces in a work of fiction or drama.

-Complication: This is an infestation of conflict in the story./ A series of difficulties forming the central action in a narrative.

-Climax: This is the turning point of the actin of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest intensity, interest or suspense. Eg. In Julius Caesar, when Cassius dies and it becomes clear that the murderer Caesar has been avenged. 

-Denouement: This is the resolution of a plot of a literary work. Eg. The denouement of Hamlet takes place after the catastrophe where Fortinbras and Horatio make speeches. 

-Perpeteia: This is a sudden or abrupt change of events or reversal of circumstances. (the turning point of a play). Eg. In Hamlet, Hamlet has the opportunity to avenge his father and kill Claudius but he hesitates, which causes his death instead.

-Characterization: This is the personality a character displays./ The means by which the author presents or reveals the characters, through speech, dress, manner or actions.

-Protagonist: This is the chief/main character of a literary work. Eg. Hamlet in the lay "Hamlet" or Othello in the play "Othello".

-Antagonist: This is the character or force against which another character struggles. Eg. Tiresias is the antagonist of Oedipus in Oedipus the King. 

-Main plot: This the main story line of a literary work. Eg. In Romeo and Juliet is about two families who are feuding, yet despite their hatred of one another Romeo and Juliet fall in love.

-Sub plot: This is the subordinate or secondary in a story which coexists alongside the main plot. Eg. The story of the betrayal of the Earl of Gloucester by his illegitimate son Edmond, in king Lear.

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Features of Drama:

-Monologue: This is a long, uninterrupted speech that is spoken in the presence of other characters.

-Dialogue: This is a conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book or play.

-Soliloquy: This is a speech in a play in which a character expresses his or her thoughts aloud to be heard by the audience but not by other characters on the stage. (thinking out loud)

-Aside: This is a dramatic device where the character/director speaks to the audience.

-Set: This is a fixed collection of objects on a stage used to help the audience see the scene.

-Stage directions: These are a part of the script, of a play, that tells he actors their actions and their lines.

-Stage conventions: These are certain devices used within a performance that are accepted as portraying an event or style without necessarily being realistic.

-Chorus: This is a group of actors who functions as a unit.

-Dramatic unities: This refers to the unities of time, place and action hat are observed in classical drama. 

-Disguise: This refers to a means of altering one's appearance or concealing one's identity. Eg. In the Counte of Monte Cristo where Dante disguises himself as a Counte.