Dramatic Conventions

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Action	Exposition, rising action, climax and denouement (falling away).
Catharsis	Emotional reaction of audience towards end of tragedy leaving sense of calm/cleansing.
Characters	Have to persuade audience to look at story from their perspective as performance texts prevent audience from seeing their thoughts as they might in written texts; protagonist faces main opposition known as antagonist.
Characterisation	Shaped by behaviour, behaviour of others towards character, appearance, costuming, gesture, tone of voice and dialogue amongst other features.
Comedy	Uses humour; can be verbal, physical or visual and usually has a happy ending.
Costume	Often symbolic; represents character and conveys messages about position of character.
Dialogue	Speech by characters; furthers action/plot and reflects character giving ideas about themes.
Dramatic Irony	Where audience knows in advance of character what has happened/will happen; used to engage audience in plot; may occur through use of soliloquy, or may be worked out through what is revealed to audience.
Empathy	Ability of audience to understand and share feelings of character.
Language	Conveys specific ideas about characters, their context and their place in a hierarchical class structure; can be poetic, formal, colloquial etc.
Monologue	One character speaking; used to convey important information to audience or build perspective.
Non-verbal elements	Includes set, stage directions, actions, costume, lighting and music amongst other features.
Pathos	Mood/tone which evokes pity from audience.
Setting	Where story is set (same as in narrative); builds context of story(time/place).
Set Design	Actual layout of stage.
Soliloquy	Where character shares private thoughts with audience; gives insight into character's innermost thoughts.
Staging	Stage directions and layout of stage; conveys information through set, movement, prop placement, character positioning etc; helps get from script to performance.
Themes	Central ideas in story; issues raised/challenged/implied/conveyed through settings/characters/events/relationships.
Tragedy	Events and character flaw lead to inevitable downfall of protagonist however dilemma previously faced is resolved.
Props	Stage properties.

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