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Understanding Plays: Definition, Structure, and Differences from Prose

This educational overview explores the literary term "play," emphasizing the distinctions between plays and prose. A play is defined as a story performed live on stage, featuring characters depicted by actors in a physical setting. Unlike prose, which is narrated by an author, a play consists solely of dialogue and action performed by the characters. The text outlines the dramatic structure of a play, including elements like exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution, while highlighting how conflict drives the narrative tension.

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Understanding Plays: Definition, Structure, and Differences from Prose

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  1. Objectives: the student will be able to… • Define the literary term “play”. • Identify the differences between a play and prose.

  2. Plays: Stories Acted Out A play is a story acted out, live and on stage. It presents characters performed by flesh and blood people in a physical setting.

  3. Plays are like any other story in the sense that it consists of characters carrying out a series of actions, driven by a conflict of some kind.

  4. One major point of difference between stories and plays is: A story is a prose narrative. In other words, a narrator describes the characters, actions, and setting to you.

  5. A play, on the other hand, consists entirely of the characters words and actions. The playwright (author of the play) may describe the setting and characters actions, but people on stage “act” it out for you.

  6. Dramatic Structure A play follows the same plot structure as any other story. Climax Falling Action Event Resolution Event Event Exposition

  7. Plot and Conflict • The plot of the story relies on conflict. • Conflict creates tension for the characters. As conflicts grow more complicated, the tension reaches a climax. ( argument, chase, fight, emotional meeting or love scene usually) • Then the conflict is resolved, the action dies down, and then the play ends.

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